CSD NGO Women's Caucus
UN CSD Homepage, at http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/csd.htm
UN
web-site for Earth Summit 2002, at www.un.org/rio+10
Multi-Stakeholder Dialogues, at http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/msdialog.htm
CSD / Issues Page at http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/issueslist.htm
CSD (and other) documents, processes, national reports, links,
etc. on particular issues ...:
Agriculture at http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/agri.htm
Biotechnology at http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/biot.htm
Finance at http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/finance.htm
Trade & Environment at http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/trade.htm
Land Management at http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/land.htm
Forests at http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/forests.htm
Education at http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/edu.htm
Freshwater at http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/water.htm
Indicators at http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/isd.htm
Poverty at http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/poverty.htm
Consumption and Production Patterns at http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/conprod.htm
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WomenWatch: A joint initiative
of the UN Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW), the United Nations Development Fund
for Women (UNIFEM), and the International Research and Training Institute for the
Advancement of Women (INSTRAW). It is the UN Internet Gateway on the advancement and
empowerment of women.
UN DAW: The UN Division for the Advancement of Women at http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw
UNIFEM: The United Nations Development Fund for Women at http://www.undp.org/unifem/
INSTRAW: The United Nations International Reasearch and
Training Centre for the Advancement of Women at http://www.un.org/instraw
UNDP Gender in Development Programme (GIDP): http://www.undp.org/gender
Also publishes a regular Email-Newsletter, GenderBeat. Contact gidp@undp.org or rosemary.kalapurakal@undp.org for
subscriptions and past issues.
CSW: The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women
at http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw
CEDAW: The United Nations Convention for the Elimination
of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women at http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw
United Nations / Gender Page, at http://www.undp.org/info21/sector/s-gender.html
Provide an overview of UN documents concerned with women’s advancements and links to
other relevant programmes such as INSTRAW, UNIFEM, UN Womenwatch and UNESCO.
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The United Nations Home Page at http://www.un.org
UN Wire, the daily news summary covering the UN, global affairs and key
international issues is now available FREE from the United Nations Foundation's homepage
at http://www.unfoundation.org provides a
concise daily summary of key stories from around the world; features direct links to
full-text, audio, video and additional sources of information on the
Internet; covers a wide range of issues, including UN Affairs, Women, Children and
Population, * Health, Environment and
Sustainable Development, Education, Science & Culture, Economics, Trade and
Development, Humanitarian Aid and Food Security, Human Rights, Justice and Democracy,
Peacekeeping and Security. For more information, contact: UN Wire, United Nations
Foundation, 1301 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 700 Washington, DC 20036, Email: unwire@unfoundation.org Send press releases
& other news information to Email: unwire-submit@unfoundation.org
Fax: (703) 519-6377
United Nations - Economic and Social Development Web Site
United Nations - Economic and Social
Development Index
United Nations Publications at http://www.un.org/Pubs/sales.htm
UN Gateway to Social Policy and Development at http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/
United Nations Centre for Human Settlements - Habitat at http://www.unhabitat.org/
United Nations Centre for Human Settlements and The Together Foundation at http://www.bestpractices.org/cgi-bin/bp98.cgi?cmd=sponsors#unchs
UN Population Division / Department of Economic and Social Affairs at http://www.undp.org/popin/popin.htm
UNCTAD, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development at http://www.unctad.org/
The United Nations System at http://www.unsystem.org/
The Sustainable Cities Programme, a joint Programme of the UN
Environment Programme (UNEP) and the UN Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat ) at http://www.unchs.org/unon/unchs/scp/home.htm
The Urban Environment Forum, a joint initiative of the UN Environment
Programme (UNEP) and the UN Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat ) at http://www.unep.org/unon/unchs/uef/home.htm
United Nations International Computing Center at http://www.unicc.org/
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Information about the UN Summits and Conferences
The Earth Summit, Rio de Janiero, 1992 - the documents,
at gopher://gopher.un.org/00/conf/unced
Agenda 21, Chapter 24: Women, at
http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/agenda21chapter24.htm
United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) Collection at http://www.ciesin.org/datasets/unced/unced.html
- a set of documents produced by UNCED, also known as the Earth Summit, and various
preparatory activities that led to the conference.
Earth Summit II, also known as UNGASS (United Nations
General Assembly 19th Special Session) or Rio+5, 1997, at gopher://gopher.un.org/00/ga/recs/spec/res-s19.2
The World Conference on Human Rights, Vienna, 1993, http://www.unchr.ch/html/menu5/d/vienna.htm
The World Conference on Human Rights 5 Year Review, 1998,
http://www.unchr.ch/html/vdparev.htm
ICPD, The International Conference on Population and
Development, Cairo, 1994, at http://www.undp.org/popin/icpd2.htm
ICPD +5, The International Conference on Population and
Development 5 year Reviw, 1999, http://www.undp.org/popin/icpd5.htm
Beijing, Fourth World Conference on Women, 1995, at http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/beijing/platform/
Beijing +5, The Fourth World Conference on Women 5 year
Reviw, 2000, at http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/news/review.htm
WSSD, The World Summit for Social Development,
Copenhagen, 1995, at http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/wssd.htm
WSSD +5, The World Summit for Social Development 5 year
Review, also known as Copenhagen+5, 2000, at http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/wssdy2k0.htm
Habitat II, The World Conference on Human Settlements,
Istanbul, 1996, at http://www.unhabitat.org/habitat2/index.html
Habitat II +5, The World Conference on Human Settlements
/ Habitat II 5 year Review, 2001, at ...
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UN Commissions
CSD, the United Nations Commission on Sustainable
Development at http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/csd.htm
CSW, the UN Commission on the Status of Women, at http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw
CSocD, the UN Commission on Social Development, at http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/social.htm
CHS, the UN Commission Human Settlements, at http://www.unhabitat.org/
CPD, the UN Commission on Population and Development, at http://www.undp.org/popin/unpopcom.htm
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United Nations Regional Commissions
UN ECE, the United Nations Economic Commission for
Europe, at http://www.unece.org
UN ESCAP, the United Nations Economic & Social
Commission for Asia and the Pacific, at http://www.unescap.org
UN ECA, the United Nations Economic Commission for
Africa, , at http://www.un.org/debts/eca
UN ECLAC, the United Nations Economic Commission for
Latin America & the Caribbean, at http://www.eclac.cl
UN ESCWA, the United Nations Economic & Social
Commission for Western Asia, at http://www.escwa.org.lb
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UN Agencies and other UN Bodies
UNEP, the United Nations Environment Programme, at http://www.unep.org
UNDP, the United Nations Development Programme, at http://www.undp.org
UNESCO, the United Nations Education, Science and Culture
Organisation, at http://www.unesco.org
ILO, the International Labour Organisation at http://www.essential.org/orgs/ilo/
WHO, the World Health Organisation, at http://www.who.ch
and http://www.who.dk
FAO, the Food Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, at
http://www.fao.org
UN Conventions
CBD, Convention on Biodiversity at http://www.biodiv.org
Serving the Convention: German
Clearing-House Mechanism
UNFCCC, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, at http://www.unfccc.de/index.html
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OECD, the Organisation for Economic Co-orperation and Development, at http://www.oecd.org/
WTO, the World Trade Organisation, at http://www.wto.org/
The World Bank Group at http://www.worldbank.org/
European Commission, Directorate Generale XI, DG XI - Environment, Nuclear Safety and
Civil Protection -homepage
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Gender
Perspectives for Earth Summit 2002. Energy; Transport; Information for
Decision-Making, workshop web-site at www.earthsummit2002.org/workshop
International expert workshop in preparation for CSD-9 and Earth Summit 2002
in Berlin, Germany, 10-12 January 2001
Jointly hosted by the German Federal Ministry
for Environment, Nuclear Safety and Nature Conservation
and the Heinrich Boell Foundation
Substantive coordination by UNED Forum
Workshop
background papers on energy; transport; and information for
decision-making
Women's Environment and Development Organisation (WEDO)
at http://www.wedo.org
UNED Forum's Stakeholder
Toolkit for Women: UN & NGO Documents, networking information,
links, document packages on current & upcoming issues, etc..
WOMEN, INK. at http://www.womenink.org
The International Women's Tribunal Centre (IWTC) at http://www.womenink.org/iwtc.html
Habitat International Coalition Women
and Shelter Network at http://www.kabissa.org/hicwas.
HIC
WAS is an international network of organisations and individual members who are involved in women and shelter issues.
The HIC WAS site is currently in English only but in future it will also be mirrored in French and Spanish. The site contains useful publications,
including the Habitat Agenda Booklet (Engendering our Human Settlements) in which gender clauses from the Habitat Agenda have been rewritten in simple,
non-technical language. The site also has electronic versions of the HIC WAS newsletter as well as information on women and shelter around the world.
Women Advancement Trust at
http://www.kabissa.org/wat
Abantu at http://www.abantu.org
Women's Human Rights Database
Group:
DIANA at the University of Toronto
The European Women's Lobby at http://www.womenlobby.org
The Global Fund for Women at http://www.igc.apc.org/gfw
OneWorld News Service - Gender
Womens National Commission in the UK at http://193.128.244.178/wnc/index.htm
Virtual Sisterhood at http://www.igc.apc.org/vsister/vsister.html
Women's Feature Service, USA, at http://www.igc.org/wfs/
Women in Global Science and Technology (WIGSAT), based in
Canada, at http://www.wigsat.org/index.html
Once and Future Action Network (OFAN), based in Canada,
at http://www.wigsat.org/ofan/ofan.html
The African Gender Institute
(AGI), South Africa, at http://www.uct.ac.za/org/agi/
Furthering institutional change and women’s leadership
African Women Global Network (AWOGNet), USA, at http://www.osu.edu/org/awognet/main.html
Networking of women’s organisations in Africa concerned with the improvement of
living conditions of women and children
ALAI (Agencia Latinoamericana de Información),
Ecuador, http://www.ecuanex.apc.org./alai/comgenen.html
Communication initiative for feminist movements in Latin America and the Caribbean
Ecuador, http://www.ecuanex.apc.org./alai/comgenen.html
Communication initiative for feminist movements in Latin America and the Caribbean
Association for Progressive Communications
(APC), UK,
Women’s Networking Support Programme, http://www.apc.org/apcwomen/
Global computer network for social change. The Women’s Networking Support Programme
facilitates training and information and hosts a list of around 150 women’s
initiatives working with the Net.
AVIVA, UK, http://www.aviva.org/
Political ‘Web-zine’, which comes out monthly, covering women’s news
globally, including action campaigns.
Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies
(CAEFS), Canada, http://www.web.net/~kpate/
Works with women who are in conflict with the law, offering legal advice and support
Canadian Women’s Health Network,
http://www.cwhn.ca/
Practical information about women’s health and advocacy for discriminated women
through race, age, religion, language etc.
Connected, Switzerland, http://www.connected.org/index.html
General development page with a section on women and the Internet Switzerland, http://www.connected.org/index.html
General development page with a section on women and the Internet
Feminist Majority Foundation (U.S.),
USA, http://www.feminist.org/
Fosters world-wide political campaigns, for instance about the situation in Afghanistan or
‘women’s budgets’. Provides valuable links to other organisations
FEMNET, Kenya, http://www.africaonline.co.ke/femnet/index.html
Networking of African women’s organisation to monitor Beijing follow-up in
development practice.
Geekgirl, Australia, http://www.geekgirl.com/
‘Cyberfeminist zine’, concerned with social change in Australia
Gender, Science and Development Program (GSD), International
Federation of Institutes for Advanced Study, http://www.ifias.ca/gsd/gsdinfo.html
Engages in research and facilitates networking around selected international gender,
science and technology issues http://www.ifias.ca/gsd/gsdinfo.html
Engages in research and facilitates networking around selected international gender,
science and technology issues
Institute for Democracy in South Africa
(Idasa), South Africa, http://www.idasa.org.za/bis/women.htm
General public interest organisation, involved in democratisation process in SA, hosts
information of the ‘Women’s Budget Initiative’ (WBI)
International Information centre and Archives for the Women’s
Movement (IIAV), Netherlands, http://www.iiav.nl/
Women’s (not only!) academic resource centre
International Center for research on women,
USA, http://www.icrw.org/
Gender research and advocacy USA, http://www.icrw.org/
Gender research and advocacy
The Institute for Global Communications (IGC),
USA, http://www.igc.org USA, http://www.igc.org
IGC Womensnet,
http://www.igc.org/igc/womensnet/
Support of women’s organisations world-wide by providing and adapting
telecommunications. Information on women’s political activities.
Latin American Network Information Center
(LANIC), USA, http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/women/
Academic database with section on women’s issues in Latin America
Network of East-West Women (NEWW),
FSU area, Russia, http://www.glasnet.ru/neww/
Provision of Internet training, networking, human rights advocacy in the FSU-area
FSU area, Russia, http://www.glasnet.ru/neww/
Provision of Internet training, networking, human rights advocacy in the FSU-area
South Asian Women’s NETwork
(SAWNET), Canada, http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/users/sawweb/sawnet/
Network with associated mailing list, run by Asian women on a voluntary basis.
Synergy Gender and Development,
Senegal, http://www.enda.sn/synfev/synfev.htm
African partner organisation to the APC Women’s Network Support
Programme.
The Women Leaders’ Network (WLN),
http://www.bellanet.org/partners/wln/
Promotion of gender perspectives into APEC (Asia Pacific Cooperation)
Women’s net,
South Africa, http://www.womensnet.org.za
Training programmes for South African women in the use of Internet resources, facilitation
of access and practical information for women already using the Net. Also provides a large
compilation of links.
W.I.S.D.O.M. – Women’s Internet Site Development and
On-line Mentoring, Australia, http://home.vicnet.net.au/~wisdom/
Skill enhancement for women in the use of Internet resources
Women of Africa Resources,
USA, http://www.lawrence.edu/~bradleyc/war.html
Links to African women’s literature available via the Internet
Yokohama Women's Association for Communication & Networking,
Japan,
http://www.women.city.yokohama.jp/
Information for community practitioners in practical issues. Japan,
http://www.women.city.yokohama.jp/
Information for community practitioners in practical issues.
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Gender
Perspectives for Earth Summit 2002. Energy; Transport; Information for
Decision-Making
International expert workshop in preparation for CSD-9 and Earth Summit
2002 in Berlin, Germany, 10-12 January 2001
Jointly hosted by the German Federal Ministry
for Environment, Nuclear Safety and Nature Conservation
and the Heinrich Boell Foundation
Substantive coordination by UNED Forum
Workshop
background papers on energy; transport; and information for
decision-making
Co-chair's
summary of the workshop proceedings and recommendations
NGO Steering Committee for the U.N. CSD at http://www.igc.org/csdngo/
Environmental Organizations WebDirectory at www.WebDirectory.com/
Commented, rich list of links on Sustainable Development, at http://www.sustainabledevelopment.org/links/communications.html
Best Environmental Resources Directories at www.ulb.ac.be/ceese/meta/cds.html
APC, Association for Progressive Communications, at http://www.apc.org/
UNED
Forum at http://www.unedforum.org
The Stakeholder Toolkit for Women at http://www.earthsummit2002.org/toolkits/women/index.htm,
Towards Earth Summit 2002 at www.earthsummit2002.org
The Roadmap to 2002 at http://www.uned-uk.org/roadmap/default.htm
The Earth Council, at http://www.ecouncil.ac.cr/
The WorldWatch Institute, at http://www.worldwatch.org/
IISD / Linkages A Multimedia Resource for Environment
& Development Policy Makers
WWF, World Wide Fund for Nature at http://www.wwf.org
Greenpeace International, at http://www.greenpeace.org/
World Conservation Union, IUCN, at http://www.iucn.org/
EarthAction, at http://www.earthaction.org/index.html
OXFAM, at http://www.oneworld.org/oxfam/index.html
Natural Resources Defense Council, at http://www.nrdc.org/nrdc/
The NGO Alternative Treaties for Rio,
1992
CUTS, Centre for
International Trade, Economics & Environment, at http://www.cuts-india.org under construction)
Friends of the Earth international, at http://www.foe.org
International Coalition for Development Action, http://www.icda.be
World Neighbors, at http://www.wn.org
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CSDGen, general NGO list server around CSD issues and process. Send an
email to owner-csdgen@undp.org to join or visit
the CSD NGO Steering Committee web-site at http://www.igc.org/csdngo
CSD NGO Caucuses
Agriculture safs-csd-subscribe@egroups.com
Education education-csd-subscribe@egroups.com
Energy energy-csd-subscribe@egroups.com
Finance and Trade finance-csd-subscribe@egroups.com
Forests forests-csd-subscribe@egroups.com
Freshwater freshwater-csd-subscribe@egroups.com
Oceans oceans-csd-subscribe@egroups.com
Tourism tourism-csd-subscribe@egroups.com
Transport transport-csd-subscribe@egroups.com
Women women-csd-subscribe@egroups.com
Consumption contact: jbarber@econet.org
2002 contact uned at una@mcr1.poptel.org.uk
Voluntary Initiatives contact: anped@antenna.nl
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Trade Unions
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, ICFTU, at http://www.icftu.org
Local Authorities
International Council for Local Environment Initiatives: I C L E I Home Page
International Union of Local Authorities: IULA
United Nations Centre for Human Settlements Best Practices
Database
European Union Cities 21 Programme: Local Sustainability Home Page
Business and Industry
WBCSD, World Business Council for Sustainable Development at www.wbcsd.org/ch
ICC, International Chamber of Commerce, at http://www.iccwbo.org/
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International Institute for Sustainable Development - Key Resources on
Women and Sustainable Development at http://www.iised1.iisd.ca/women/read4.htm
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mailbase.uk: A site hosting more
than 2300 discussion lists (list servers) with more than 150.000 members worldwide. Based
at the University of Newcastle, the site is easy to search, provides the latest postings
of discussion groups, and subscription forms.
eGroups.com: A site hosting over
200.000 electronic mailing groups (list servers) with million sof users world-wide. You
can search the site for groups interesting for you and access the postings of most of
these groups. You can very easily set up your own list server; there is an option free of
charge (with very little advertising).
Deja News - Search Engine for Newsgroups /
Discussiongroups on Usenet at http://www.dejanews.com/
WomenLinks at http://www.womenslinks.com/
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The Foundation Center at http://www.foundationcenter.org
Foundation Center is
collecting, organizing, analyzing, and disseminating information on foundations, corporate
giving, and related subjects. Aimed at servicing grantseekers, grantmakers, researchers,
policymakers, the media, and the general public.
Funders
Online of the European Foundation Centre at http://www.fundersonline.org
Directory of independent funder web-sites - over 300 foundations and corporate funders in
Europe.
The
Heinrich Boell Foundation, working on environment, gender and
democratization, at www.boell.de
The Ford Foundation at http://www.fordfound.org/
The Rockefeller Foundation at http://www.rockfound.org/
The Soros Foundation at http://www.soros.org/
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