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Action Canada for Population and Development (ACPD)
ACPD is a human rights advocacy organization that seeks to enhance the quality of life of women, men and children by promoting progressive policies in the field of international development with a primary focus on reproductive and sexual rights and health (SRHR) and an emerging focus on international migration and development.

Advocates for Youth
Advocates for Youth is dedicated to creating programs and advocating for policies that help young people make informed and responsible decisions about their reproductive and sexual health. Advocates provides information, training, and strategic assistance to youth-serving organizations, policy makers, youth activists, and the media in the United States and the developing world.

Africa Regional Sexuality Resource Center (ARSRC)
The ARSRC, established in 2003 and housed in the Lagos-based nongovernmental organization Action Health Incorporated, is part of a Ford Foundation five-year grant-making initiative, "Global Dialogue of Sexual Health and Well Being." The goal of the ARSRC is to promote more informed and affirming public dialogue on human sexuality and to contribute to positive changes in the emerging field of sexuality in Africa by creating mechanisms for learning at the regional level. The ARSRC is focused on expanding and shaping discourse, thinking and action in favor of healthy, respectful, responsible and pleasurable sexuality; building professional capacity in the emerging field of sexuality; and fostering links and partnershipsbetween kindred organizations and individuals working on sexuality issues in Africa.

Alliance for Microbicide Development
The Alliance is a consortium of 36 pharmaceutical companies, scientists from 36 nonprofit institutions, and representatives from 22 (and growing) adovcacy groups, all dedicated to the development of topical microbicides for the prevention of sexually transmitted infections, importantly including the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

ARROW
ARROW is a nongovernmental, nonprofit women's organization based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. ARROW aims to strengthen initiatives of both governments and NGOs to reorient health, population, and reproductive health policies and programmes by incorporating women's perspectives and using gender analysis toward an improvement in women's health and rights.

The Boston Women's Health Book Collective
The Collective is a nonprofit women's health education, advocacy, and consulting organization. Their broad purpose is to help individuals and groups make informed personal and political decisions about health and medical care, especially as they relate to women. The Collective is also the publisher of Our Bodies Ourselves.

The Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA)
CEDPA is a women-focused, nonprofit international organization founded in 1975. Its mission is to empower women at all levels of society to be full partners in development.

Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE)
CHANGE works to ensure that the health and population policies of international institutions supported by the United States government (such as the US Agency for International Development and the World Bank) actively promote women's reproductive and sexual health.

The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) 
CRR is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting women's equality worldwide by guaranteeing reproductive rights as human rights.

Center for Women's Global Leadership
The 'Global Center's' programs promote the leadership of women and advance feminist perspectives in policymaking processes in local, national, and international arenas. The Global Center works from a human rights perspective with an emphasis on violence against women, sexual and reproductive health, and socioeconomic well-being.

Child Brides: Stolen Lives on NOW on PBS
In an hour-long special report, NOW takes an unprecedented inside look at child marriage—a global custom that devastates girls' lives and hinders the progress of communities. Audio and video files of the documentary film are available on this website, as well as information about how you can support efforts to end child marriage.

Communications Consortium Media Consortium (CCMC)
CCMC uses media and new telecommunications technologies as tools for public education and policy change. CCMC works with other nonprofit organizations to increase awareness of such issues as global population, environmental health, saving women's lives, reproductive health, and more.

Conference of Non-governmental Organizations (CONGO)
CONGO, in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations, is an independent, international, not-for-profit membership association of nongovernmental organizations that facilitates the participation of NGOs in United Nations debates and decisions.

Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN)
DAWN is a network of women scholars and activists from the economic South, encompassing Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Pacific and the Caribbean, who engage in feminist research and analysis of the global environment and are committed to working for equitable, gender-just, and sustainable development.

Eldis Gender and HIV/AIDS Dossier
Hosted by the University of Sussex’s Institute of Development Studies, Eldis is a gateway to information on development issues, offering internet dossiers on a variety of different topics. This narrative guide documents the research issues, concepts, case studies, and tool kits needed to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic from a gender perspective. A useful repository of statistics, reports, and analyses, it provides up-to-date resources to guide visitors through the key issues and debates surrounding the gender dimension of HIV/AIDS.

EngenderHealth 
Founded in 1943, EngenderHealth is a nonprofit organization that has been working internationally for over 30 years to support and strengthen reproductive health services for women and men worldwide.

Family Care International (FCI)
FCI is dedicated to improving women's sexual and reproductive health and rights in developing countries, with a special emphasis on making pregnancy and childbirth safer.

Feminist.com
Feminist.com is a site where feminists convene on the net for extensive information resources to fulfill their goals of awareness, education, activism, and empowerment. The site includes the first nationwide database of tens of thousands of women's resources around the country where you can find a variety of feminist services and organizations.

Feminist Majority Foundation
The Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF), founded in 1987, is dedicated to women's equality, reproductive health, and non-violence. In all spheres, FMF utilizes research and action to empower women economically, socially, and politically.

The Foundation Center
The Foundation Center, an independent, nonprofit information clearinghouse, is a resource for grantseekers, grantmakers, researchers, policymakers, the media, and the general public. Center libraries, located in Atlanta, Cleveland, and San Francisco, provide access to a unique selection of materials on philanthropy and are open to the public free of charge.

Global Action Network
The Global Action Network is an online community designed to connect, educate, and empower young people working in the global population and reproductive health fields.

Global Health Council
The Global Health Council is the world's largest membership alliance dedicated to improving health throughout the world. Its mission is to mobilize effective action by advocating for needed policies and resources, building networks and alliances among those working to improve health, and communicating innovative ideas, knowledge and best practices in the health field.

The Global Reproductive Health Forum @ Harvard (GRHF)
GRHF is an Internet networking project that aims to encourage the proliferation of critical, democratic discussions about reproductive health and gender on the net. The project provides interactive electronic forums, located in Southern countries, which hope to encourage the participation of underserved groups, and distributes reproductive health and rights materials from a variety of perspectives through its clearinghouse website.

Guttmacher Institute 
AGI is a non-profit organization focused on reproductive health research, policy analysis, and public education. Its mission is to protect the reproductive choices of all women and men in the United States and throughout the world, and to support their ability to obtain the information and services needed to achieve their full human rights, safeguard their health, and exercise their individual responsibilities in regard to sexual behavior, reproduction, and family formation.

Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch is an independent, nongovernmental organization, dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world. It stands with victims and activists to prevent discrimination, to uphold political freedom, to protect people from inhumane conduct in wartime, and to bring offenders to justice. It investigates and exposes human rights violations, holds abusers accountable, and challenges governments and those who hold power to end abusive practices and respect international human rights law.

InterAction
InterAction, a coalition of more than 150 nonprofit organizations concerned with international relief and development—working worldwide—has information on development, refugees, advocacy, and disaster response and is a link to job/volunteer opportunities in the international development community.

International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)
ICRW's mission is to improve the lives of women in poverty, advance women's equality and human rights, and contribute to broader economic and social well-being. It accomplishes this, in partnership with others, through research, capacity building, and advocacy on issues affecting women's economic, health, and social status in low- and middle-income countries.

International Partnership for Microbicides (IPM)
IPM is a non-profit product development partnership established in 2002 to prevent HIV transmission by accelerating the development and availability of a safe and effective microbicide for use by women in developing countries.

International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)
IPPF links national autonomous Family Planning Associations (FPAs) in over 150 countries worldwide. IPPF and its member Associations are committed to promoting the right of women and men to decide freely the number and spacing of their children and the right to the highest possible level of sexual and reproductive health.

Ipas
Ipas is dedicated to the belief that women have a basic right to reproductive and sexual health care and to make their own reproductive and sexual choices. We work globally to increase access to high-quality reproductive health care and to improve women's ability to exercise their reproductive rights, especially their right to safe, legal abortion.

Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation is an independent philanthropy focusing on the major health care issues facing the United States. The Foundation is an independent voice and source of facts and analysis for policy makers, the media, the health care community, and the general public. Daily news updates on health policy, reproductive health, and HIV/AIDS are available at their satellite site, www.kaisernetwork.org.

MADRE
MADRE is an international women's human rights organization that works in partnership with women's community-based groups in conflict areas worldwide, providing resources and training that enable its sister organizations to meet immediate needs in their communities and develop long-term solutions to the crises they face. MADRE's programs address armed conflict and forced displacement; women's health and reproductive rights; economic justice and community development; Indigenous Peoples' rights and resources, food security and sustainable development; human rights advocacy; youth; and U.S. foreign policy.

Margaret Sanger Center International (MSCI)
MSCI provides specialized training and tailored technical assistance to local groups so they can develop their own culturally sensitive education programs, clinical services, and advocacy. They work with diverse partners, such as youth associations, family planning organizations, women’s groups, HIV/AIDS- prevention programs, government agencies, religious leaders, and traditional healers.

One Woman Can Campaign
Americans for UNFPA is dedicated to building American support for the work of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, and to restoring the United States’ moral and financial contribution to the organization. Americans for UNFPA recently launched the One Woman Can campaign, calling on Americans to take action for the health and dignity of women everywhere.

Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood’s mission is to provide comprehensive reproductive and complementary health care services in settings which preserve and protect the essential privacy and rights of each individual; to advocate public policies which guarantee these rights and ensure access to such services; to provide educational programs which enhance understanding of individual and societal implications of human sexuality; and to promote research and the advancement of technology in reproductive health care and encourage understanding of their inherent bioethical, behavioral, and social implications.

Population Action International (PAI)
PAI is an independent policy advocacy group working to strengthen public awareness and political and financial support worldwide for population programs grounded in individual rights. It fosters the development of U.S. and international policy on urgent population and reproductive health issues through an integrated program of research, advocacy and communications.

Population Council
The Population Council is an international, nonprofit institution that conducts research on three fronts: biomedical, social science, and public health. With this research—and the information it produces—the Council attempts to change the way people think about problems related to reproductive health and population growth.

Population Reference Bureau (PRB)
PRB provides timely and independent information on U.S. and international population trends and their implications. It informs policymakers, educators, the media, and concerned citizens working in the public interest around the world through a broad range of activities, including publications, information services, seminars and workshops, and technical support.

Program on Women, Health and Development at the Pan American Health Organization (HDW/PAHO)
HDW/PAHO promotes and supports initiatives that respond to the challenge of achieving gender equity in health and human development. It includes a useful introduction to a gender perspective on women's health, explains program objectives and connects with other internet resources.

The Religious Consultation on Population, Reproductive Health, and Ethics (TRC)
TRC is an international, multi-faith network of progressive feminist religious scholars and leaders who seek out the positive, renewable moral energies of their faith traditions and direct them to the inter-related issues of population, consumption, ecology, reproductive health, and the empowerment of women.

Reproductive Health Matters (RHM)
RHM is a journal that edits and produces publications on sexual and reproductive health and rights issues for a multi-disciplinary, international audience. Its aim is to promote laws, policies, research and services that meet women’s reproductive health needs and support women’s right to decide whether, when and how to have children; to examine experiences, values, information and issues from the point of view of the women whose lives are affected; to motivate improvements in policy, services and practice to women's benefit; and to inspire new thinking and action in the field.

Reproductive Health Outlook (RHO)
The RHO website provides summaries of up-to-date information, links to the best, in-depth reproductive health information on the web, and the chance to communicate with international experts and peers through its Community Forum message boards. RHO is especially designed for reproductive health program managers and decisionmakers working in low-resource settings.

Reproductive Health Response in Conflict (RHRC) Consortium
Consortium members are committed to promoting comprehensive reproductive health programs for all refugee women, men, and adolescents. Service provision is based on demand as articulated by refugees, internally displaced persons, and war-affected populations.

Research, Action and Information Network for the Bodily Integrity of Women (RAINBO)
RAINBO is an international not-for-profit organization working on issues within the intersection between health and human rights of women. Starting with the issue of Female Circumcision/Female Genital Mutilation (FC/FGM), it explores ways of preventing this and other forms of gender-based violence.

RH Reality Check
Launched in 2006, RH Reality Check is an online community and publication serving individuals and organizations committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights. The site exists as a resource for evidence-based information, provocative commentary, and interactive dialogue. RH Reality Check contributes to the global effort to empower people with the information, services and leadership they need to safeguard their sexual and reproductive health and rights and to guard against false attacks and misinformation.

Right to Decide Virtual Workplace on Reproductive Rights
Created in March 2004, Right to Decide is an online forum for the free and open exchange of best practices, views, and news on sexual and reproductive rights and health worldwide. The site compiles facts, news, stories, and interviews. Visitors can also subscribe to a free online newsletter.

Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS)
SIECUS is a 33 year-old nonprofit, dedicated to affirming that sexuality is a natural and healthy part of life. SIECUS develops, collects, and disseminates information, promotes comprehensive education, and advocates the rights of individuals to make responsible sexual choices. Check out SIECUS's site for a clearinghouse of sexual education information.

Third Wave Foundation
The Third Wave Foundation is a feminist, activist foundation working nationally in the United States to support young women 15 to 30. Through financial resources, public education, and relationship building, Third Wave helps support and strengthen young women and their allies working for gender, racial, social, and economic justice.

UNIFEM Gender and AIDS Web Portal
In collaboration with UNAIDS, UNIFEM created this online resource center and web portal in response to the growing demand for gender-specific knowledge and information about HIV/AIDS. The portal provides a range of information, materials, debates and practical tools, links to other websites on gender and HIV/AIDS, as well as a place for the global community to share insights, materials, research, model programs, and much more.

UK Partnership for Global Health Women's Development Database
As 90 percent of jobs in export processing zones and a majority of the other jobs created by globalization are taken by women, globalization creates both opportunities for women’s development and a threat to their health. This section of the UK Partnership for Global Health's website invites visitors to discuss globalization from a feminist perspective and seek ways to improve women’s development and health. It compiles articles and resources that explore the connections between globalization, human rights, and women's health, as well as information about or links to resources on a number of other community development issues.

Women Deliver
Women Deliver is a landmark global conference that will focus on creating political will to save the lives and improve the health of women, mothers, and newborn babies around the world. It will be held October 18-20, 2007 in London. The experts agree: with increased political will and adequate financial investment, most women and newborns can survive so that their families, communities and nations can thrive.

Women's eNews
Women's eNews is a nonprofit, independent news service covering the issues that are of particular concern to women.

Women's Environment & Development Organization (WEDO)
WEDO is an international advocacy network that seeks to increase the power of women worldwide as policymakers in governance and in policymaking institutions, forums and processes, at all levels, to achieve economic and social justice, a peaceful and healthy planet and human rights for all.

World Health Organization: Reproductive Health
The World Health Organization's research page on reproductive health, including the UNDP/UNFPA/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction - HRP.

World Health Organization: Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI)  
The SVRI aims to build an experienced and committed network of researchers, policymakers, service providers, activists, and donors to ensure that the many aspects of sexual violence are addressed from the perspective of different disciplines and cultures. The SVRI web site provides information about the SVRI and contains links to documents and other resources on sexual violence and sexual violence research.

The Youth Coalition
The Youth Coalition is an international coalition of young people (ages 15-29 years) committed to promoting adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive rights at the national, regional and international levels. It is made up of students, researchers, volunteers, educators, NGO workers, and activists. Since its formation in 1999, the Youth Coalition has participated in many regional and international decision-making processes as advocates for adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive rights. The Youth Coalition has also conducts trainings on advocacy and international negotiations for young people around the world.