Useful Links for Women

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Amnesty International
Amnesty International (AI) is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights.

Association for Women in Science
AWIS, a non-profit national organization of women and men, was established in 1971 with the mission to achieve equity and full participation for women in a variety of scientific fields.

Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID)
An international membership organization committed to gender equality and just sustainable development.

Centre for Research in Women's Health
The Centre for Research in Women's Health is committed to conducting and fostering women's health research which is relevant to women's lives, and to promoting its application in diverse communities.

Citizenship & Immigration, and Government of Ontario
Information and resources for immigrants to Ontario. Information on housing, jobs, health coverage, schools and more available for new immigrants.

DisAbled Women's Network (DAWN) Ontario
DAWN lobbies the provincial government on issues affecting women with disabilities. Issues such as employment advocacy, training, education, transportation, housing, health care and others.

Education Wife Assault
Its mission is to inform and educate the community about the issue of wife assault/woman abuse in order to decrease the incidence of physical, psychological, emotional and sexual violence against women and the effect that woman abuse has on children. Funding for this Website was generously provided by The Ontario Trillium Foundation. Education Wife Assault is a United Way Member Agency.

Equal Pay Coalition
The Equal Pay Coalition was formed in 1976 as a coalition of organizations to seek the implementation of equal pay for work of equal value through legislation and collective bargaining.

Equality Now
An international human rights organization dedicated to action for the civil, political, economic and social rights of girls and women.

Global Fund for Women
The Global Fund for Women is an international network of women and men committed to a world of equality and social justice.

International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR) ­ Women’s Peace Makers Program (WPP)
IFOR's Women Peacemakers Program has been pioneering gender sensitive nonviolence training and development of educational materials on women and peacebuilding since 1997.

International Women’s Tribune Center
IWTC's work is grounded on the premise that access to information and the ability to communicate are basic to the process of women's empowerment, to women's ability to re-defining development paradigms.

Living the Legacy: The Women's Rights Movement in the United States
1998 was the 150th Anniversary of the Women's Rights Movement, launched at the world's first Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York.

National Action Committee on the Status of Women (NAC)
The National Action Committee on the Status of Women is the largest feminist organization in Canada. A coalition of more than 700 member groups, NAC has been fighting for women's equality for over 29 years.

National Council for Research on Women
The Council harnesses the resources of its network to ensure fully informed debate, policies, and practices to build a more inclusive and equitable world for women and girls.

Older Women's Network (OWN)
OWN works to achieve a caring society in which older women have the opportunity to live in security and with dignity; to participate in the choices affecting their lives; to give mutual support and share creative interests and activities; and to realize their potential.

Ontario Women's Directorate
The Ontario Women's Directorate is operated by the provincial government as a resource library of educational and informational resources on issues that affect the women of Ontario. Its main priorities are aking communities safer and helping women achieve economic independence.

Shelternet
Shelternet can help to bridge the gap for women seeking shelter on-line and take women quickly to the shelters web site in their area or, if a shelter does not have a site, to information taken from the directory information available from the National Clearinghouse on Family Violence.

Sistering
Sistering has been supporting homeless, underhoused and low-income women in the Toronto community since 1981.

United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
UNIFEM is the women’s fund at the United Nations. It provides financial and technical assistance to innovative programmes and strategies to foster women’s empowerment and gender equality.

Women and Democracy
A non-partisan organization, the Center supports, stimulates and fosters women’s effective participation and leadership in local, national and global affairs.

Women in World History
Women in World History Curriculum's Website This unique site is full of information and resources to help you learn about women’s history in a global, non- U.S., context.

Women's Health Matters
An information source for women's health issues, developed by Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre and the Centre for research in Women's Health.