20. International Women: Organizations and People
Abortion Rights [UK]
"Abortion Rights is the only grassroots pro-choice campaign in Britain, working for safe, free, legal and accessible abortion."
https://x.com/Abortion_Rights
AF3IRM
“A transnational feminist organization”
https://af3irm.org/af3irm/
Asian Women for Equality
“... to change societal attitudes towards women, especially women of Asian descent; to advance equality for Asian women; and to create opportunities for Asian women to have meaningful participation and to take leadership roles in civil society. Asian Women for Equality sees prostitution as a form of male violence against women that can be eradicated."
https://www.asianwomenequality.org
Asian Women Coalition Ending Prostitution
https://www.endslaverynow.org/asian-women-coalition-ending-prostitution
The Asian Feminist
“Covering women's issues and empowerment from more than 50 countries.”
https://twitter.com/theasianfmnst
Association of War Affected Women (AWA) [Sri Lanka]
“We also work for women’s rights and advancement as well democracy and good governance. Currently we are training women to run for political office.”
https://awawsl.org
https://www.facebook.com/awawsl/
Battered Women Support Services [Vancouver, BC]
"Battered Women’s Support Services (BWSS), as ending violence workers, frequently and regularly work with women facing homelessness. It is the worst form of urban poverty and social vulnerability. Women are one of the groups affected most dramatically by homelessness, in terms of both the challenges they face once homeless and the impacts of the dangers to them of being homeless."
https://www.bwss.org/women-and-homelessness
Beira’s Place [Scotland]
Edinburgh Women’s Sexual Assault Support Center
“… to provide practical and emotional help to women in a safe and supportive environment.“
https://beirasplace.org.uk
Beyond WPATH [World Professional Association for Transgender Health]
“As mental health professionals, public health scientists, and allied organizations and individuals, we have grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the current Standards of Care released by WPATH (the World Professional Association for Transgender Health). We hold that WPATH has discredited itself.”
https://beyondwpath.org
Dr. Heather Bruskell-Evans
http://www.heather-brunskell-evans.co.uk
https://twitter.com/brunskellevans
Canadian Gender Report
https://twitter.com/GenderReportCA
Canadian Women’s Sex-Based Rights [Similar organizations exist in Scotland, Wales and New Zealand. ]
“…a cross-Canada, non-partisan coalition of women and male allies working together to preserve the rights and protections of women and girls, as enshrined in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Section 15).
https://www.cawsbar.ca
https://twitter.com/cawsbar
The Cass Review [UK]
"Independent review of gender identity services for children and young people"
https://cass.independent-review.uk
Comfort Women Justice Coalition [Korea}
“... to remember the hundreds of thousands of women and girls sexually enslaved by the Japanese Imperial Army from the early 1930s to 1945 and to educate the public about their history.”
https://remembercomfortwomen.org/home-2
Comfort Women News [Korea]
“... to share in English what is being said from Korean press.”
https://www.comfortwomennews.com
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The quantity of and access to pornography has grown exponentially since the 1980's alongside the growth of the video cassette/DVD and then the Internet industries, while the content has become increasingly violent, degrading, and harmful to participants and viewers. Moreover, sex trafficking, which is closely related to pornography, is now widely acknowledged as a significant international problem. One cannot understand the dynamics of demand without careful attention to both prostitution and pornography. Activists must confront pornography and prostitution in any effort to attack sex trafficking.
― David E. Guinn, "Pornography: Driving the Demand in International Sex Trafficking"
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Collective Shout
“… a grassroots campaigns movement against the objectification of women and the sexualisation of girls.
“Collective Shout is for anyone concerned about the increasing pornification of culture and the way its messages have become entrenched in mainstream society, presenting distorted and dishonest ideas about women and girls, sexuality and relationships.”
https://www.collectiveshout.org
Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights
“… to use knowledge about gender and security to end armed conflicts and build sustainable international peace.”
https://genderandsecurity.org
Counting Dead Women
Karen Ingala Smith
“CEO of nia, a London-based domestic and sexual violence charity working to end violence against women and girls… writing… in a personal capacity.”
https://kareningalasmith.com/counting-dead-women/
Culture Reframed
“Building resilience & resistance to hypersexualized media & porn”
https://www.culturereframed.org
Detrans Awareness Day [UK]
“Our unique health care needs are ignored by the same professionals that were eager to medicalize us. We are not going to hide in the shadows. We deserve ethical medical treatment.”
https://www.detransawareness.org/
Engender [Scotland]
"We are Engender, Scotland's feminist policy and advocacy organisation."
https://www.engender.org.uk
European Network of Migrant Women
“…a migrant-women-led feminist, secular, non-partisan platform that advocates for the rights, freedoms and dignity of migrant, refugee and ethnic minority women and girls in Europe.”
https://www.migrantwomennetwork.org https://twitter.com/ENoMW
Every Mother Counts
“Almost all global maternal deaths are prevented by ensuring women have access to quality, respectful, and equitable maternity care. Too few women have the access they need. We're working to change that.”
https://everymothercounts.org
Fair Play for Women [UK] “… a campaigning and consultancy group which raises awareness, provides evidence and analysis, and works to protect the rights of women and girls in the UK.”
https://fairplayforwomen.com
https://twitter.com/fairplaywomen
Feminist Current [Canada]
“…a unique perspective on gender, women’s rights, violence against women, pop culture, politics, current events, sexuality, and many other issues that are often underrepresented or misrepresented by mainstream, progressive, and feminist media sources.”
https://www.feministcurrent.com
https://twitter.com/feministcurrent
Feminist History
“Our history is our strength.”
https://twitter.com/FeministHistory
Feminist Legal Clinic [Australia]
“Advancing the human rights of women & girls”
https://feministlegal.org/
Free to Speak [UK]
“Concern is increasing over the content of lessons taught via the relationships and sex education (RSE) curriculum…
“Free To Speak wants to help you to voice your concerns about RSE teaching and the policies in your child's school, or the educational setting in which you work.”
https://freetospeak.co.uk
Gender Dissent [Canada]
“…researching and writing about the power and money behind the gender identity industry.”
https://twitter.com/gender_dissent
Gender Dysphoria Alliance Canada
“For a more evidence-based, less ideological conversation about gender dysphoria”
https://www.genderdysphoriaalliance.com
Gender Dysphoria Support Network
“… an international group that aims to offer support to families of individuals affected by gender dysphoria. Our support network recognises the difficulties presenting the person with gender dysphoria and also recognises that friends and families can be in need of emotional understanding and support. “
https://genderdysphoriasupportnetwork.com/
Gender and Radiation Impact Project
”In the Atomic Age, gender matters.”
https://www.genderandradiation.org
Gendered Violence Research Network Newsroom
“... one of Australia’s leading research hubs for investigating, exploring and finding solutions to prevent gendered violence.”
https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/keywords/gendered-violence-research-network
Genspect
“A rational approach to gender”
https://genspect.org
Beyond Trans
“… support and advice to people who feel distressed or ambivalent
about their transition.”
https://beyondtrans.org/
Beyond Transition
“Some detransition. Others may not physically detransition, but their
minds have detransitioned: they’ve moved on from an
ideology that led them to believe they could become another person,
and they’ve come to realise that this ideology can
cause harm.
“We launched ‘Beyond Transition’ to meet the specific needs of
detransitioners, as well as those who are in a more uncertain
space. We believe it's time that the varying needs of different groups
are offered comprehensive help."
https://genspect.org/beyond/
StatsforGender.org. “Puberty blockers.”
Peer-reviewed science.
https://statsforgender.org/
Helpful groups (international and parent support groups)
https://genspect.org/groups/
Get the L Out UK
“Lesbian not Queer”
http://www.gettheloutuk.com
The Glinner Update [UK]
“... fighting for women’s rights…”
https://grahamlinehan.substack.com
Global Fund for Women
“We support gender justice movements to create meaningful change that will last beyond our lifetimes.”
https://www.globalfundforwomen.org
Global Women’s Strike
Huelga Mundial de Mujeres
“International network for recognition & payment for all caring work”
http://www.globalwomenstrike.net/
Green Women’s Declaration (UK and Wales). "Green Declaration for Sex-Based Rights.” [2023] "Women’s rights, based on the reality of biological sex, have been eroded within the GPEW [Green Party of England and Wales], as elsewhere in society. We believe the consequences of this disregard for the protected characteristic of sex are extremely damaging for women and girls,...There now exists a chilling atmosphere of censure and fear within the Party, which affects not only free speech but also free thought."
https://greenwomensdeclaration.uk/
Greens Against 'No Debate' [Australia]
"Members of state and territory parties of the Australian Greens fighting for open debate and resisting the silencing of feminist speech."
https://twitter.com/greensdebate
Gulabi Gang [India]
"The Gulabi Gang was initially intended to punish oppressive husbands, fathers and brothers, and combat domestic violence and desertion. The members of the gang would accost male offenders and prevail upon them to see reason. The more serious offenders were publicly shamed when they refused to listen or relent. Sometimes the women resorted to their lathis, if the men resorted to use of force.”
https://www.gulabigang.in
International Coalition for the Abolition of Surrogate Motherhood/
Coalition Internationale pour l'Abolition de lat Maternité de Substitution
"... a coalition of feminist and human rights organizations, founded in 2018 to fight against reproductive exploitation."
http://abolition-ms.org/en/home/
https://www.facebook.com/surrogacy.abolition/
International Network for Incarcerated Girls and Women
“INIGW members advocate for the rights of incarcerated girls and women in their respective countries/states, and we support each other and other groups & individuals advocating for incarcerated females in various locations.”
https://theinigw.wixsite.com/inigw
International Network for the Rights of Female Victims of Violence in Pakistan
http://ecumene.org/INRFVVP/index.htm
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No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you. We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.
― Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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Labour Women’s Declaration [UK]
“Holding labour to account on women’s sex-based rights”
http://www.labourwomensdeclaration.org.uk
https://twitter.com/LabWomenDec
Legal Feminist [UK]
“... a collective of UK solicitors and barristers… [curate] feminist interrogation of the law and how it works, or fails to work for women.”
https://www.legalfeminist.org.uk
LGB Alliance UK
“Speaking up for same-sex attracted people”
https://lgballiance.org.uk
Libertad Latina
Indigenous & Latina Women & Children's Human Rights News from the Americas
http://www.libertadlatina.org/
Graham Linehan [UK]
The Glinner Update
https://grahamlinehan.substack.com
Lorelei [UK]
https://twitter.com/hatinwoman
Make Her Story
“Taking action however we can, whenever we can, to end the abuse, enslavement and trafficking of women and girls in the UK and beyond...”
https://twitter.com/MakeHerstory
Madre
“Demanding Rights, Resources and Results for Women Worldwide”
www.madre.org
Mayday4Women UK
“UK based feminist page. Sex not gender. No to self-ID. Anti-porn, abolitionist, kink-shamers. Nordic”
https://www.facebook.com/mayday4womenUK
MSI Reproductive Choices [Marie Stopes International]
“... every woman and every girl should have the power to decide and determine the path their life takes. ”
https://www.msichoices.org
The Movie Guide for Women [Canada]
“Alline Cormier's film guide for women”
https://www.sexualizationofwomen.com
Mumsnet [UK]
By parents. For parents”
https://www.mumsnet.com
Mumsnet Talk Women’s Rights
https://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights
No Conflict They Said [Australia]
“... the impact on women of men using women-only spaces, including but not limited to: bathrooms, shelters, rape and domestic violence refuges, gyms, spas, sports, schools, accommodations, hospital wards, shortlists, prizes, quotas, political groups, prisons, clubs, events, festivals, dating apps, and language…”
https://www.noconflicttheysaid.org
No Secret Lesson Plans in UK Schools
“A parent led legal campaign for transparency in UK schools”
https://twitter.com/NoSecretLessons
Nobel Women’s Initiative [Canada]
“Since 2006 we have worked in solidarity with women's movements, organizations, and activists around the world to build peace, defend justice, and champion equality for all.”
https://www.nobelwomensinitiative.org
Nordic Model Now! [UK]
“Movement for the Abolition of Prostitution”
https://nordicmodelnow.org
OBJECT! [UK]
“... women-run, voluntary radfem campaign linking, exposing and fighting all systems that objectify, exploit, harm and kill women as a sex class…”
https://objectnow.org
Our Duty [UK]
"an international support network for parents who wish to protect their children from gender ideology.
https://ourduty.group
https://twitter.com/OurDutyGrp
Oxford Feminist Union [UK]
“Asking Questions. Encouraging Debate. Amplifying Women.”
https://twitter.com/OxFeministUnion
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Feminism isn't about making women stronger. Women are already strong, it's about changing the way the world perceives that strength.
― G.D. Anderson
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Oxford Feminist Union [UK]
“Asking Questions. Encouraging Debate. Amplifying Women.”
https://twitter.com/OxFeministUnion
Parents with Inconvenient Truths About Trans (PITT)
“Personal Stories and Essays by Parents Impacted by Transgender Ideology”
https://pitt.substack.com
Parents of Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria [ROGD] Kids
“… a group of parents whose children have suddenly—seemingly out of the blue—decided they identify strongly with the opposite sex and are at various stages in transitioning.”
https://www.parentsofrogdkids.com/
Posie Parker/Kellie-Jay Kean [UK]
https://www.standingforwomen.com/events
Party of Women [UK]
"Kellie-Jay Keen founded Party Of Women to make sure that people can safely say, "No woman has a penis, "No man has a vagina, "There is no such thing as "non-binary." "And 'transitioning' children is abuse."
https://www.partyofwomen.org/
Radicailín [Ireland]
“a radical feminist group made up of Irish and migrant women who recognise that women’s oppression is based on the material reality of our biological sex. “
https://radicailin.com
Raging Grannies International
http://www.geocities.com/raginggrannies/
Reaching Out Romania
"Over the years we have assisted 750 victims, mostly Romanian women and girls who have been enslaved and abused in many European countries. We offered them home as well as psychological, medical and legal assistance and we made them part of our family."
http://www.reachingout.ro/
ReSisters United [UK & Ireland]
“…We have formed from local, grassroots feminist groups in order to coordinate and organise national and international action.”
https://resistersunited.org
https://twitter.com/resistersu
Respect My Sex [If You Want My X]
https://twitter.com/hashtag/RespectMySex
Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan
“RAWA is the oldest political/social organization of Afghan women struggling for peace, freedom, democracy and women's rights in fundamentalism-blighted Afghanistan since 1977.”
www.rawa.org
Safe Schools Alliance UK
“... a grassroots organisation which campaigns to uphold child safeguarding in schools.”
https://safeschoolsallianceuk.net
SOS Scotland - Safeguarding Our Schools
https://sosscotland.com/
Scottish Feminists
“Scottish women, campaigning for our rights.”
https://twitter.com/Scot_Feminists
Sex Matters [UK]
“Sex matters in life and in law. It shouldn’t take courage to say so.”
https://sex-matters.org
Sex. Not Gender. [UK]
“…to counter the creeping replacement of the term sex with the term ‘gender’ in areas such as equality monitoring forms and diversity policies… It's in black & white. In the Equality Act.”
https://www.sexnotgender.info
Sole Sisters [Scotland]
“protecting women's rights and amplifying women's voices in Scotland”
https://twitter.com/VoteWithOurFeet
Speak Up for Women [New Zealand]
“Our goal has always been the protection of women’s rights in law. … Regardless of what parliament decides to record on birth certificates, biological sex will go on exisiting and mattering.…The female experience cannot be legislated out of existence. … New Zealand is losing protections for women and children, data and opportunities to redress inequality.”
https://speakupforwomen.nz/
SPACE International [Survivors of Prostitution-Abuse Calling for Enlightenment]
“SPACE was first formed in Ireland, in 2012, for the purpose of changing social attitudes towards prostitution and pressing for its recognition as a sexually exploitative human rights violation.”
https://www.spaceintl.org
Spinifex Press [Australia]
“an award-winning independent feminist press, publishing innovative and controversial feminist books”
https://www.spinifexpress.com.au
Standing for Women [UK]
Posey Parker
“Woman – adult human female”
https://www.standingforwomen.com
Stop the Sex Industry [Sweden]
https://www.facebook.com/Stopthesexindustry/?ref=page_internal
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A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.
― Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
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Stop Violence Against Women
“A project of The Advocates for Human Rights”
http://www.stopvaw.org
TERF Collective
“A syndicate of GCs and RadFems working to end the international campaign of female erasure.”
https://www.facebook.com/groups/terfcollective
https://twitter.com/TERFCollective
Trans Widows Voices [UK]
“Amplifying the voices of women who have split, or want to split from transitioning partners.”
https://www.transwidowsvoices.org
https://twitter.com/transwidows
TransCrimeUK
"Documenting crimes committed by transgender individuals in the UK."
http://transcrimeuk.com/
TransCritical
Critiquing Transgender Doctrine & Gender Identity Politics
“Over 400 curated links to blog posts and online articles that question and critique transgender doctrine, genderist dogma, and gender identity politics”
https://transcritical.wordpress.com
Transgender Trend
“…an organisation of parents, professionals and academics based in the UK who are concerned about the current trend to diagnose children as transgender, including the unprecedented number of teenage girls suddenly self-identifying as ‘trans’ (Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria or ROGD). We are also concerned about legislation which places transgender rights above the right to safety for girls and young women in public toilets and changing rooms along with fairness for girls in sport.”
“No child is born in the wrong body.”
https://www.transgendertrend.com
UN Division for the Advancement of Women, Department of Economic and Social Affairs
"Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women."
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/cedaw.htm
UN Women. Global Database on Violence Against Women
“[To] provide easy access to comprehensive and up-to-date information on measures undertaken by Governments to address all forms of violence against women; Increase opportunities for exchange of experiences in addressing violence against women;
Strengthen the knowledge-base for effective policy responses to prevent and address violence against women; andEncourage the further collection, availability, use and dissemination of data on violence against women, as well as analysis of such data."
https://evaw-global-database.unwomen.org/en
United Nations. Human Development Reports. "2023 Gender Social Norms Index (GSNI): Breaking down gender biases: Shifting social norms towards gender equality.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/uXBii
Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter [Canada]
“Our services are available to all women who have experienced male violence including wife battering, incest, rape, sexual assault, sexual harassment and prostitution… developed for women by women…”
https://rapereliefshelter.bc.ca
Fred Victor [Toronto, Canada]
"a social service charitable organization that fosters long-lasting and positive change in the lives of homeless and low-income people living across Toronto."
https://www.fredvictor.org/2022/03/07/women-and-homelessness/
Woman’s Place UK
“Violence against women and sex discrimination still exist. Women need reserved places, separate spaces and distinct services.”
https://womansplaceuk.org/
WPUK Manifesto 2019 https://womansplaceuk.org/wpuk-manifesto-2019/
https://www.facebook.com/womansplaceuk
We Are Fair Cop [UK]
“... individuals who have… shared concerns about police attempts to criminalise people for expressing opinions that don’t contravene any laws.”
https://www.faircop.org.uk
Women Against Rape [UK]
“... for justice, protection and compensation for all women and girls who have suffered sexual, domestic and/or racist violence.”
https://womenagainstrape.net/
WeDpro [Philippines]
“Protecting women and youth against all forms of violence... a feminist, gender-responsive organization in the Philippines… to …work with its communities of poor, marginalized women and youth… to design a comprehensive bases conversion for the would-be displaced women in the baselands.”
http://wedprophils.org
Women for Women International
“Since 1993, Women for Women International has invested in the power of over 500,000 women who are forgotten — the women survivors of war and conflict — to learn the skills they need to rebuild their families and communities.”
https://www.womenforwomen.org
Rape
https://www.womenforwomen.org/search?keys=rape
Women’s Action Alliance Canberra [Australia]
“… a women’s liberation group committed to the protection and advancement of women and girls on the understanding that sex is a biological fact with material consequences for females living under patriarchy.”
https://womensactionalliance.asn.au/
Women’s International Perspective
http://www.thewip.net/
Woman’s Place UK
https://womansplaceuk.org
https://www.facebook.com/womansplaceuk
Women’s Rights Network [WRN, UK]
https://www.womensrights.network
https://twitter.com/WomensRightsNet
Women’s Space Ireland
https://twitter.com/WomensSpaceIre
https://www.youtube.com/@womensspaceireland
Women's U.N. Report Network
"... a non-governmental organization to implement the conclusions and recommendations of a United Nations Study on Freedom of Religion of Belief and the Status of Women From the Viewpoint of Religion and Traditions."
http://www.wunrn.com/
Women’s Will Association [Iraq]
“We believe that the occupation is a major hindrance to the advancement of the cause of Iraqi women…”
http://iraqiwomenswill.blogspot.com/
Women for Women International
https://www.womenforwomen.org
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They cannot stand that a refugee, a black woman, an immigrant, a Muslim, shows up in Congress thinking she's equal to them. But I say to them, "How else did you expect me to show up?"
― Ilhan Omar
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Simone de Beauvoir. The second sex. [1949] ONLINE BOOK
Classic work on women’s rights
https://archive.org/search.php?query=Simone+de+Beauvoir.++The+Second+Sex.+
Journal of Women’s History
“…scholarship from around the globe in all historical periods.” PERIODICAL
https://jwomenshistory.org
Mary Wollstonecraft. A vindication of the rights of women: With strictures on political and moral subjects. [1792]
ONLINE BOOK
https://archive.org/details/vindicationofrig00wollrich
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If the world is to have a future, it lies in the hands of women. At time of this writing nearly half of all women in the Middle East are illiterate; millions in poor countries are shackled to the most basic daily urgencies of finding water and feeding children; the majority of the world's women exist in various forms of bondage to necessity, to poverty, and to men.
― A.C. Grayling, Toward the Light of Liberty: The Struggles for Freedom and Rights that Made the Modern World