Women in International Law:
Research Resources

Internet Resources

Women's Human Rights Resources (DIANA database of links at the Bora Laskin Law Library, University of Toronto; includes links to articles, documents, web sites)
Womens Human Rights Net (Whrnet; links to advocacy tools, networks, and other resources)
Women's Human Rights (links page of ASIAPOINT.NET: The Network for the Asia-Pacific Region)
Women's Human Rights in Conflict Situations Bibliography (by Stephanie Grenier, International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development (ICHRDD), Canada, May 1997; coverage begins with documents published in 1990; also available in French)
Women's Rights in Conflict Situations Bibliography (Update) (includes documents published from May 1997 to February 1999; by Rose-Marie Dubois & Ferroudja Nazef, International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development (ICHRDD), Canada; also available in French)
Women and Human Rights (University of Minnesota Human Rights Page; includes bibliographies of books and articles, documents, cases, treaties, etc.)
Guide to the International Women's Human Rights Movement (1995-2000) (Human Rights Internet (HRI), Canada)
The Human Rights of Women: A Reference Guide to Official United Nations Documents (Rita Maran ed., 3d printing March 1998; includes excerpts or full texts of documents; available also in French and Spanish; posting on the Internet is supported by Amnesty International- USA Special Initiatives Fund)
Women's Caucus for Gender Justice (site contains information about the Women's Caucus and its work on the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the Optional Protocol to CEDAW; includes recent papers and publications, such as position papers distributed at the Preparatory Commissions at the ICC, reports, articles, newsletter and their recent document on the ICC for the Beijing+5 review)
The Tokyo Women's International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan's Military Sexual Slavery (December 8-12, 2000; includes Public Hearing on Crimes from Recent Wars and Conflict Regions)
Commentary and Background Information on the CERD General Recommendation on Gender Dimensions of Racial Discrimination (CERD/C/54/Misc.31, 11 March 1999, Gay McDougall submission to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD))
General Recommendation on Gender Related Dimensions of Racial Discrimination (CERD/C/54/Misc.25, 9 March 1999; see also CERD/C/55/Misc.12, submitted by Theodoor van Boven, CERD 1333rd meeting, CERD/C/SR.1333, 5 August 1999, at 6)
A Rights-based Approach to Realizing Gender Equality (by Professor Savitri Goonesekere, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, in cooperation with the UN Division on the Advancement of Women (DAW)), October 1998)
Integrating the gender perspective into the work of United Nations human rights treaty bodies : a report : tenth meeting of persons chairing human rights treaty bodies, Geneva, 14-18 September 1998 ([New York, NY] : United Nations, 1998). HRI/MC/1998/6. Report by the Secretary-General. 22 p.
Anne Gallagher, "Ending the Marginalization: Strategies for Incorporating Women into the United Nations Human Rights System", 19 Human Rights Quarterly 283-333 (No.2, 1997). Need to be a Project Muse subscriber for electronic access.
A Life Free of Violence: It's Our Right (United Nations Inter-Agency Campaign on Women's Human Rights in Latin America and the Caribbean; site hosted by the United Nations Development Programme, Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean (UNDP-RBLAC; includes link to Gender and Legislation in Latin America and the Caribbean book by Aparna Mehrotra (1998))
Gender and Human Rights of Women Team (Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR/UNHCHR); works with the Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women)
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW; part of the United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW))
Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW; adopted by the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women, in New York, on 12 March 1999; E/CN.6/1999/WG/L.2 (10 March 1999))
CEDAW-IN-ACTION (United Nations Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women Working Group list; for more information, check the CEDAW-in-action List Archives; to subscribe, send e-mail to majordomo@edc-cit.org with only the following text in the body of the message:
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International Women's Rights Action Watch (the IWRAW was organized in 1985 at the World Conference on Women in Nairobi, Kenya to monitor implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (the CEDAW Convention); it is an global network of activists, scholars, and organizations that focus on the advancement of women's human rights; the IWRAW network is served by a resource and communications center based at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs; includes publications list and related links and back issues of The Women's Watch, IWRAW's newsletter)
ABA Supports Ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) (American Bar Association, Legislative and Governmental Advocacy page; includes link to info re publication, Women's Rights Are Human Rights: Strategies for Securing Human Rights for Women in the U.S. and Abroad; see also Did you know that the U.S. has not yet ratified the International Women's Treaty? - ABA Section on Individual Rights and Responsibilities resources page)
International Women's Rights Project (IWRP; includes extensive bibliography on CEDAW and women's rights as human rights; the IWRP project was launched by York University in 1998, under the leadership of Marilou McPhedran, with the guidance of the United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW), UNIFEM and an International Advisory Committee)
CEDAW in Hong Kong (links to information, documents, reports, seminar papers, news, and CEDAW-related web sites via the Centre for Comparative and Public Law, Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong)
Japanese Association of International Women's Rights (JAIWR; includes list of publications on CEDAW, Convention for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women; see also http://www.noriko.com/JAIWR.html)
Women's Rights Seminar `99 (17 September 1999, Westminster Central Hall, Opp. House of Commons, London, sponsored by the Global Peace Foundation; Human Rights International Alliance (HRIA))
Guide to Women and the Law (Lex Mundi's Hieros Gamos page includes many links, including international law-related ones)
Women in International Law Interest Group (WILIG; American Society of International Law (ASIL))
Women in International Law Interest Group (WILIG; Canadian Council on International Law (CCIL))
Women and International Law Program (W&ILP, Washington College of Law, American University, Washington, D.C.; LL.M. specialization on Gender and the Law as part of International Legal Studies Program)
Women in Legal Education (Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section page includes international law-related links)
Feminist Theory and Feminist Jurisprudence on the WWW (Kim Dayton; part of the Women's Web Ring)
Feminist Curricular Resources Clearinghouse (the FCRC collects syllabi, reading lists, and bibliographies for courses concerning women and the law; the materials are organized by subject matter and by author and are available for all non-profit, educational uses; for professors teaching feminism and the law; located at Indiana University School of Law; includes discussion forum)
Center for Feminist Legal Research (CFLR; New Delhi, India)
ANTIGONE (list of the Women in Legal Education Section of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS); law professors; see also Feminist Jurisprudence (FEMJUR) list; to subscribe, send e-mail to listproc@assocdir.wuacc.edu with only the following text in the body of the message:
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FEMJUR (list for discussion of Feminist Jurisprudence; women and the law; gender; to subscribe, send e-mail to listproc@assocdir.wuacc.edu with only the following text in the body of the message:
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Harvard Women's Law Journal (tables of contents for v.1, Spring 1978 to v.21, Spring 1998; includes articles on foreign and international law)
Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy
Women's Bar Organizations on the WWW (includes links to foreign and international women's bar associations)
Commission on Women in the Profession (American Bar Association (ABA))
Women's Interest Network (WIN, a Forum of the Section of International Law and Practice, American Bar Association (ABA))
Women's International Technical Assistance Projects (WITAP, Task Force of the International Law and Practice, American Bar Association (ABA))
INTWOMEN (Women in International Law; electronic discussion group of the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of International Law and Practice, Public International Law Division, to facilitate communication and to exchange information regarding the UN Fourth World Conference on Women; to subscribe, send e-mail to listserv@abanet.org with only the following text in the body of the message:
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International Federation of Women Lawyers (IFWL; has permanent representatives in New York, Geneva, and Vienna and special consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council since 1954)
International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA - Association Internationale des Femmes Juristes - Ghana)
Women and the Law Committee (Lex Mundi)
Committee on Feminism and International Law (International Law Association (ILA))
Women's Rights Committee (Comité XX: Derechos de la Mujer; Inter-American Bar Association (IABA))
Women's Rights Advocacy Program (WRAP, International Human Rights Law Group (IHRLG))
Women's Human Rights (Amnesty International, Sweden)
Women's Rights Project (Human Rights Watch)
Women's Human Rights Project (Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights (MAHR))
The Coordination of Women's Advocacy (CWA, Givrins, Switzerland; concerned with women's rights in situations of war and conflict, including gender-based war crimes)
Women in Law and Development in Africa (WiLDAF; a Human Rights Internet (HRI) partner site)
GENDER-LAW (Gender and Law; list to examine what the World Bank's role should be in the legal issues affecting women in developing countries and attempt to improve understanding of how the law can be used to improve gender equity; to subscribe, send e-mail to majordomo@jazz.worldbank.org with only the following text in the body of the message:
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Sexuality, Gender, and the Law: National and International (includes links to resources on lesbians and the law and gender issues)
Lesbian Rights Summit (National Organization for Women, 23-25 April, 1999, Washington, D.C.; "this national summit will be about political strategy, coalition building, skills sharing, and breaking the barriers that splinter [the feminist] movement; the diversity of the summit will include lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, straight, racial/ethnic identity, age, economic circumstance, religion, physical ability, and more")
Women, Law and Development International (WLD International)
Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL; includes info on the Global Campaign for Women's Human Rights and the Global Tribunal for Women; additional info at the Feminist.com page)
National Women's Justice Coalition (NWJC, Australia)
Institute for Women and Children's Policy (IWCP)
Widow's Law File (WLF; page of Empowering Widows in Development (EWD), a UK-based group)
Women of the World: Formal Laws and Policies Affecting Their Reproductive Lives (full text publication of the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy; the CRLP's other publications include Women of the World: Laws and Policies Affecting Their Reproductive Lives: Latin America and the Caribbean and Women of the World: Laws and Policies Affecting Their Reproductive Lives: Anglophone Africa)
Abortion Laws of the World (full texts via the Annual Review of Population Law web page; about 66 laws as of 14 May 1999)
World Abortion Policies 1999 (United Nations Population Information Network (POPIN); ground for legal abortion; abortion rates; fertility rates; maternal mortality; rate of contraceptive use by married women)
Population and Reproductive Rights (Women, Ink. books)
Schweizerische Vereinigung für Straflösigkeit des Schwangerschaftsabbruchs (SVSS; Union suisse pour décriminaliser l'avortement (USPDA); Unione svizzera per decriminalizzare l'aborto; women's reproductive rights; the SVSS is a pro-choice organisation that informs about legal, ethical and practical aspects of abortion and has links to related organizations around the world; information in German and French)
International Reproductive Rights Research Action Group (IRRAG)
Annual Review of Population Law (database includes summaries and excerpts of legislation worldwide on abortion, adoption, AIDS, assisted reproduction, child abuse, labor, domestic violence, marriage and divorce, female genital mutilation, inheritance, land tenure, maternity benefits, nationality, prostitution, rape, refugees, sex discrimination, surrogate motherhood, women's rights, etc.; database is updated through 2000; hardcopy/print version cease publication in 2001)
Center for Gender and Refugee Studies (CGRS, University of California Hastings College of the Law; provides links to resources on cases involving women asylum-seekers, including summaries and full texts of gender asylum cases, related documents and web sites)
European Campaign for Women Asylum-Seekers (European Women's Lobby (EWL))
Refugee Women: Select Bibliography (from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) REFWORLD database)
re/productions (electronic journal includes full texts of articles on reproductive health and gender; Issue 2, April 1999, covers trafficking, sex work, and prostitution of women and children, and AIDS; published by the South Asia Global Reproductive Health Forum)
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM and international human rights law; Amnesty International report)
Gendercide Watch (information on gender-selective mass-killing and other human rights atrocities worldwide, with a focus on women and girls)
Revised draft Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children, Supplementing the Draft Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime (A/AC.254/4/Add.3/Rev.3)
Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000: Trafficking in Persons Report (also available as a 105-page PDF file; U.S. Department of State, July 2001)
Trafficking in Women and Children (APBnews.com three-part article series - Backgrounder by Amy O'Neill Richard - January 2001)
Stopping Traffic: Exploring the Extent of, and Responses to, Trafficking in Women for Sexual Exploitation in the UK (by Liz Kelly and Linda Regan; Carole F. Willis ed., London: Research, Development, and Statistics Directorate, Policing and Reducing Crime Unit, Home Office, 2000)(Police Research Series Paper 125). PDF file. 62p. ISBN 1-84082-466-2.
United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights. Trafficking of women and children in the international sex trade : hearing before the Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights of the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, first session, September 14, 1999 (Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 2000). 105p. ISBN 0160603854. Y4.IN8/16:T67/14.
Trafficking in Women (Directorate General for Research, European Parliament, March 2000)(Civil Liberties Series; LIBE 109 EN). Working Paper. Author: Carmen Galiana. Editor: Andrea Subhan. 4-2000.
The Trafficking and Smuggling of Refugees - The End Game in European Asylum Policy (July 7, 2000, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)).
Action against Trafficking in Human Beings for the purpose of Sexual Exploitation (Counci of Europe, Committee of Ministers, Recommendation No. R (2000) 11 adopted on 19 May 2000, at the 710th meeting of the Committee of Ministers)
Trafficking in Human Beings: Implications for the OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Review Conference, September 1999)(Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) Background Paper, 1999/3).
Trafficking in Human Beings (paper presented on 7 July 1999 by Adam Graycar, Director, Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC), at the "International Conference on Migration, Culture, and Crime" in Israel)
Diane Johnson, "Trafficking of Women into the European Union", 1999 New England International & Comparative Law Annual.
International Trafficking in Women to the United States: Contemporary Manifestation of Slavery and Organized Crime (Amy O'Neill Richard, Center for the Study of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA, U.S.), November 1999). 80p. PDF file. See also alternate HTML and PDF texts via the U.S. Department of State International Information Programs page.
The Sex Trade: Trafficking of Women and Children in Europe and the United States (PDF file; June 28, 1999 Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) hearing). 70p. Y4.SE2:106-1-9.
Comprehensive Antitrafficking in Persons Act of 1999 (S. 1842, sponsored by Senator Paul D. Wellstone, introduced on November 2, 1999; related bill is H.R. 3154, introduced by Representative Sam Gejdenson on October 27, 1999; hearings re on February 22, 2000 by the Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs; "a bill to combat trafficking of persons in the United States and countries around the world through prevention, prosecution and enforcement against traffickers, and protection and assistance to victims of trafficking")
Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 1999 (H.R. 3244, sponsored by Rep. Christopher H. Smith and Rep. Sam Gejdenson; introduced on November 8, 1999, "to combat trafficking of persons, especially into the sex-trade, slavery, and slavery-like conditions in the United States and countries around the world through prevention, through prosecution and enforcement against traffickers, and through protection and assistance to victims of trafficking")
P.L.106-113, Section 597 (H.R.3194 enacted on 29 November 1999), at 113 Stat. 1501A-127, amends Section 116 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to include a subsection covering trafficking in persons, especially women and children)
Freedom from Sexual Trafficking Act of 1999 (H.R.1356, sponsored by Rep. Christopher H. Smith, introduced on 25 March 1999, "to end international sexual trafficking, and for other purposes", 106th Congress)
International Trafficking of Women and Children Victim Protection Act of 1999 (H.R.1238, sponsored by Rep. Louise McIntosh Slaughter, introduced on 23 March 1999, 106th Congress)
International Trafficking of Women and Children Victim Protection Act of 1999 (S.600, a bill introduced in the 106th Congress by U.S. Senator Paul D. Wellstone on 11 March 1999; incorporated as Senate Amendment (S. Amdt.) 1123 to S.1234, which itself was incorporated later as an amendment to H.R.2606)
In Focus: Trafficking in Women (v.3, no.30, October 1998; briefing paper written by Jyothi Kanics, Global Survival Network, that includes information about related organizations and publications; "U.S. Foreign Policy in Focus" - A Project of the Institute for Policy Studies and the Interhemispheric Resource Center)
Initiative Against Trafficking in Persons (established as a project of the Women's Rights Advocacy Program (WRAP) of the International Human Rights Law Group (IHRLG) to combat the global trade in persons; includes links to IHRLG Recommendations)
Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW; includes electronic newsletter; see also their The Factbook on Global Sexual Exploitation (Donna M. Hughes, Laura Joy Sporcic, Nadine Z. Mendelsohn, Vanessa Chirgwin, Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, 1999) which covers countries in Asia, Europe, Oceania, Middle East, Central America and the Caribbean, South America, and North America)
Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW)
Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST, Hae Jung Cho, project director; see also the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA), Angelica Salas, acting executive director)
The Protection Project (now located at the Foreign Policy Institute of the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C.; released the Human Rights Report on Trafficking of Women and Children on March 8, 2001; contact information:
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The Protection Project
Johns Hopkins University-SAIS
1717 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Suite 515
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 202-663-5896
Fax: 202-663-5899
Email: Protection_Project@jhu.edu
Website: www.protectionproject.org
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Formerly an initiative located at the Women and Public Policy Program (WAPPP) of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University; purpose to create a comprehensive legal database of national and international legislation; " Creating an International Framework for Legislation to Protect Women and Children from Commercial Sexual Exploitation"; Global Trafficking of Women and Children page)
Crossing Borders Against Trafficking in Women and Girls (Q Web Sweden, a project of the Foundation of Women's Forum, European Commission's DAPHNE initiative and the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs; focus on Nordic and Baltic States; includes links to web sites of related organizations; was at http://www.qweb.kvinnoforum.se/trafficking.htm)
Fight Against Trafficking in Human Beings (European Union SCADPLUS page on "Trafficking in Women for the Purpose of Sexual Exploitation")
Global Issues: Trafficking in Human Beings (International Information Programs, U.S. Department of State)
Trafficking in Women and Children: The U.S. and International Response (by Francis T. Miko, Specialist in International Relations, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division, Congressional Research Service, May 10, 2000)(CRS Report 98-649 C).
UN Trafficking Treaty: Myths/Facts and Trafficking in Women and Children via the Trafficking in Women and Girls page of The President's Interagency Council on Women (PICW), U.S. Department of State (see also their Office of the Senior Coordinator for International Women's Issues page; see also Clinton Administration Anti-Trafficking Initiatives which also covers international anti-trafficking initiatives)
Human Trafficking Program (Global Survival Network (GSN); program ceased in 2000 with GSN's human trafficking reports, videos, and other materials being transferred to the organization, Witness located in New York)

STOP-TRAFFIC (list for discussion of trafficking in persons for forced labor, including domestic servitude, forced agricultural and textile work, etc.; includes discussion of trafficking of women); subscribe via http://www.stop-traffic.org/ or http://fpmail.friends-partners.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/stop-traffic (was on listproc, now on mailman; additional info at http://www.friends-partners.org/partners/stop-traffic/?):

Stop-Traffic is an open, facilitated, international electronic list
funded by the Women's Reproductive Health Initiative of the Program
for Appropriate Technology in Health. Stop-Traffic addresses human
rights abuses associated with trafficking in persons for forced labor,
servitude and slavery around the world, such as in forced factory
labor, domestic servitude, forced prostitution, forced agricultural
labor and other forms of forced labor.  The list maintains a strong
emphasis on public health issues associated with trafficking, which
affects the physical safety, health and well-being of millions of
women, men and children worldwide.

International Organization for Migration (includes documents and publications on trafficking in migrant women and children such as Trafficking in Migrants; see also their Counter-Trafficking page)
NEWW-RIGHTS (list created as part of the On-Line Legal Resources Service of the Network of East-West Women (NEWW) for the discussion of women's legal rights in the post-communist countries of Europe; was on majordomo@igc.apc.org until January 31, 1999, then on majordomo@neww.org; subscribe via the web at http://www.neww.org/mailman/listinfo/neww-rights/

Women: General Topics

Global WomenAction 2000 (collaborative project to provide NGO Beijing Plus Five websites and online dialogues for those who want to be involved in the Beijing review process)
European WomenAction 2000 (platform for European women's organizations to strategize around the Beijing Platform of Action review process)
The President's Interagency Council on Women (U.S. PICW; includes link to Women 2000: Beijing Plus Five page)
Beijing+5 ("Women: 2000: Gender Equality, Development and Peace for the 21st Century", Status of Women, Canada, Information Site)
Women in Politics (Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU))
Women in Parliaments Worldwide (statistics from the Inter-Parliamentary Union)
WomenWatch ("The United Nations Internet Gateway on the Advancement and Empowerment of Women"; includes short-term END-VIOLENCE (End Violence Against Women) and WW-NATMACH (National Machineries for Gender Equality/Beijing Fourth World Conference on Women) lists/electronic fora)
WomensNet (health, reproductive rights, violence against women links; Institute for Global Communications (IGC); also the Beijing+5 Global Forum Internet Working Groups:
1. Achieve Educational Equality
2. Claim Women's Human Rights
3. Empower the Girl Child
4. End Violence Against Women (was intended to be short-term, but now continuing through January 2000)
5. End Women's Economic Inequality
6. End Women's Poverty
7. Promote Women in Power and Decision-Making
8. Secure and Promote Women's Health
9. Strengthen Women's Role in Environmental Sustainability
10. Women and the Media
11. Women in Armed Conflict
Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women (United Nations Commission on Human Rights; includes full texts of resolutions, reports, and other related documents)
Preventing Violence Against Women (PVAW conference sponsored by the Southern African Development Community (SADC); includes links to full texts of Conference papers)
Preventing Violence Against Women (PVAW; links page via the Women'sNet in South Africa)
Inter-Agency Committee on Women and Gender Equality (IACWGE; subsidiary body of the United Nations Administrative Committee for Coordination (ACC); the IACWGE is chaired by the Assistant Secretary General and the Secretary General's Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women, Angela King; see the Office of Inter-Agency Affairs for additional information)
United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW)
United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW)
Commission on the Status of Women (CSW; part of the United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW))
UNIFEM (United Nations Development Fund for Women)
End Violence Against Women (March 8, 1999 videoconference sponsored by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM))
Fourth World Conference on Women (FWCW; Beijing, 1995; includes links to the full texts of official documents and reports at the national, regional, and international level, and to women's issues at other UN conferences; see also gopher site)
Beijing `95: Women, Power, & Change: Followup and Implementation (Institute for Global Communications' WomensNet pages; includes links to original Beijing Conference pages, June to September 1995)
Beijing +5 (UNICEF page)
Further Actions and Initiatives to Implement the Beijing Declaration and the Platform of Action (23d Special Session, UN General Assembly, "Women 2000: Gender Equality, Development and Peace for the Twenty-first Century"). 10 June 2000. 44-page PDF file.
Beijing +5 Review - New York, 5-9 June 2000 (UN DAW's Beijing followup page - "Women 2000: Gender Equality, Development and Peace for the 21st Century" - Special Session to review the implementation of the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women and of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action; see also the WomenWatch Beijing Plus Five/Women 2000 page)
BEIJING-CONF (UN Beijing Women's Conference; Fourth World Conference on Women, China, 1995; electronic mailing list sponsored by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for discussion of women in international law; regular postings of "Women's Initiatives and Activities Worldwide" (calendar of events) by the International Women's Tribune Center (there's also the IWTC WOMEN'S GLOBALNET, a "bi-weekly briefing note sent via e-mail); includes message archives (or try alternate URL for archives; to subscribe, send e-mail to majordomo@confer.edc.org with only the following text in the body of the message:
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Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (University of Chicago Press). ISSN: 0097-9740.

     Founded in 1975, Signs is a leading international
     journal in women's studies.  Signs publishes articles 
     from a wide range of disciplines in a variety of voices - 
     articles engaging gender, race, culture, class, sexuality, 
     and / or nation.  Includes law-related articles.

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
Population Index (web version of quarterly publication of the Office of Population Research at Princeton University; an annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other material on population topics: a searchable and browsable database containing 41,103 abstracts of demographic literature published in Population Index in the period 1986-1998; includes listings of articles on women and the law, human rights, etc.)
Population and Gender (links to Internet resources via PopNet, "the source for global population information", a service of the Population Reference Bureau with funding assistance from the US Agency for International Development (USAID))
Ending Violence Against Women (Population Reports, Volume XXVII, Number 4, December, 1999, Series L, Number 11, Issues in World Health; Population Reports is published by the Population Information Program, Center for Communication Programs, The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health (JHUCCP) in collaboration with the Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE)). 43p.
International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)
Women's International Network News (information about WIN NEWS)
H-WOMEN (History of Women list provided by H-Net Humanities and Social Sciences Online; to subscribe, send e-mail to listserv@h-net.msu.edu with only the following text in the body of the message:
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WSSLINKS: Women and Gender Studies Web Sites (maintained by the Women's Studies Section, Collection Development Committee, Association of College and Research Libraries)
Women's Studies (extensive page of links by Joan Korenman; a good starting point!)
International Gender Studies Resources (links page of the Institute of International Studies, University of California at Berkeley)
Women's Studies (Nordic Institute for Women's Studies and Gender Research (NIKK); includes links to women's studies in Europe, the US, and other countries)
Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies (University of Leeds)
Women, State, Culture...in Former Yugoslavia (page of links by Kristina Mihalec; includes an extensive Bibliography; was at http://home.istar.ca/~kris/INDEX.HTM)
International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)
Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO; impact of the global economy on women and the environment)
Association for Women in Development (AWID)
Women's Foreign Policy Group (WFPG)
Women in International Trade (WIIT, Washington, D.C.; a chapter of the Organization of Women in International Trade (OWIT: "United Around the Globe to Foster Free Trade and the Advancement of Women in Business...members include women and men doing business in all facets of international trade including finance, public relations, government, freight forwarding, international law, agriculture, sales and marketing, import/export, logistics, and transportation"))
Women in International Security (WIIS; includes related links)
Women's Studies International Forum (Oxford; New York: Pergamon; tables of contents from 1995 to the present via Elsevier; "bimonthly journal to aid the distribution and exchange of feminist research in the multidisciplinary, international area of women's studies and in feminist research in other disciplines; [t]he policy of the journal is to establish a feminist forum for discussion and debate"; was formerly Women's Studies International Quarterly)
Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section (FTGSS, International Studies Association (ISA); includes "Feminist Theory and International Relations" background article by Christine Sylvester, syllabi, newsletters, etc.)
FEMISA (list of the Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section of the International Studies Association (ISA); for scholarly discussions of feminism and international political economy, global politics, international relations, law, jurisprudence, etc.; to subscribe, send e-mail to listproc@csf.colorado.edu with only the following in the body of the message:
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Feminist International Network of Resistance to Reproductive and Genetic Engineering (FINRRAGE or FINNRAGE; includes Journal, listserv, and links on feminism, women's studies, history of women, etc.)
Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (also available via Project MUSE; tables of contents and selected full texts of articles such as Alison M. Jaggar's "Globalizing Feminist Ethics" (v.13, no.2, Spring 1998); includes articles on human rights, citizenship, immigration policy, war, peace, cross-cultural issues, etc.)
The Feminist Majority Foundation Online (includes the Feminist Internet Gateway with links on violence against women and sexual harassment, reproductive rights, and global feminism)
Feminist Activist Resources on the Internet (includes links to resources on "Global Issues")
The National Organization for Women (NOW; includes Legislative Update (U.S. Congress) and links to information on abortion and reproductive rights, affirmative action, economic equity, sexual harassment, electoral politics, global feminism, legislation, lesbian rights, racial and ethnic diversity, violence against women, women in the military, women-friendly workplace, young feminism)
Equality Now (includes as part of its Women's Action 16.1 (July 1999) a Beijing +5 Report which has excerpts of laws related to marital status (Marriage, Divorce, Polygamy & Wife Obedience), personal status (Suffrage/Voting, Citizenship, Evidence, Travel), economic status (Inheritance and Property in Marriage, Employment), violence (Pre-marital Rape, Marital Rape, Domestic Violence, Honor Killings, State Sanctions); updated by Women's Action 16.2 (November 1999); other law-related information available via the Women's Action page and archives; see also the AWAKEN campaign to end Female Genital Mutilation (FGM))
MEDIA-VIOLENCE-POLICY (list of the Network of East-West Women (NEWW) focusing on the discussion of issues of violence against women (including trafficking), women in the media and public policy in the post-communist societies; to subscribe, beginning February 1, 1999, send e-mail to majordomo@neww.org with only the following text in the body of the message:
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Women's International Health (Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health; see also Health and Human Rights journal)
Be active, Be emancipated (B.a.B.e.; Budi aktivna, Budi emancipirana; Grupa za zenska ljudska prava = Women's Human Rights Group, Zagreb, Croatia; was at http://www.interlog.com/~moyra/; see also CROW, the first and only on-line magazine for and about women in Croatia, maintained by Nevenka Sudar from Zagreb, Croatia; CROW is in Croatian and English)
Israel Women's Network (IWN; includes legal information on sexual harassment, trafficking in women, violence against women, women in the army, and family law)
International Jewish Women's Human Rights Watch (IJWHRW newsletter; a joint project of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and the International Council of Jewish Women (ICJW))
Women's Rights Advocacy Update (Unitarian Universalist Service Committee International Human Rights Network: Focus on Women news; includes links to Gender Justice: Women's Rights Are Human Righs and other UUSC publications)
WomensNet (South Africa; includes page on Women and Human Rights with links to South African governmental and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) such as the Black Sash)
Gender (AltIndia.Net page includes cases, reports, guidelines, and other documents and readings related to sexual harassment of women, and women's rights generally in India)
South Asian Women's NETwork (SAWNET, India; provides a forum for disseminating information about women's issues in the nations of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka; women's rights and health)
Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children (WCRWC; part of the International Rescue Committee)
Women's Studies (University of Chicago Library; includes links to electronic databases, journals, and indexes, and sources on women's history and academic; has women-oriented artwork)
Center for Gender Studies (University of Chicago; includes information on the Lesbian & Gay Studies Project and the Feminist Studies Project)
Gay and Lesbian Studies (University of Chicago Library; includes international resources)
Women, Ink. (WINK, "the one-stop shopping service for books on women and development", provided by the International Women's Tribune Centre; includes books on human rights and the law; exclusive distributor of publications from the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM))
Contemporary Women's Issues (part of OCLC's FirstSearch suite of subscription databases; access at this URL is limited to University of Chicago faculty, students, and staff; the CWI provides full text access to global information from over 150 countries since 1992 on women and sociology, psychology, health, education, human rights, etc.; more information is available via OCLC's web site)

Page created on 12 October 1998. Thank you to Jutta Zalud for submitting useful links to add to this page. Please send correspondence on Women in International Law resources to Lyonette Louis-Jacques, Foreign and International Law Librarian and Lecturer in Law, D'Angelo Law Library, The University of Chicago Law School, at llou@midway.uchicago.edu. Updated on 14 March 2002.

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