Window on the World
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development. Copyright © 2002 Society for International Development. SAGE Publications (London, Thousand Oaks, CA and New Delhi), 1011-6370 (200203) 45:1; 143–147; 022384. NB When citing this article please use both volume and issue numbers.
Window on the World
This section contains reviews on websites of organizations that work within the framework we have identified as politics of place. They are women’s organizations dedicated to the defence of body, home and environment, and to assert their right to participate in the public sphere. They all form part of what we call ‘meshworks’, networks of groups that belong to social movements opposed to mainstream politics and development. Global networks Center For Women’s Global Leadership www.cwgl.rutgers.edu This organization, established within Rutgers University, has programmes in the two broad areas of policy and advocacy (involving networking and work around specific events), and leadership, development and global education. The Center advances feminist perspectives in policymaking at the local, national and international levels, as well as working in the areas of capacity building, leadership and education through a resource centre, mobilization campaigns, publications, women’s global leadership institutes, etc. The central focus of the organization’s activities is women’s human rights, with an emphasis on violence against women, sexual and reproductive rights and health, and socioeconomic justice and well-being.
DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) www.dawn.org.fj DAWN is a network of women scholars and activists from the global South with a strong feminist agenda. The organization mainstreams research and activism on the global environment, in particular on issues of economic and gender justice, and democracy. Their ‘global advocacy’ initiative involves co-operation with like-minded feminist groups and networks, and engagement with global civil society and social movements. DAWN also carries out regional work, which entails developing and disseminating information on regional issues related to DAWN’s research themes, networking with regional women’s and development NGOs, advocacy, capacity building – with a special focus on civil society responses to globalization – and so forth. DAWN publishes a newsletter, DAWN Informs. GAATW (Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women) www.inet.co.th/org/gaatw Formed in Thailand in 1994, GAATW aims to defend and promote the human rights of trafficked women and women migrant labourers the world over. GAATW’s activities are carried out in co-operation with grassroots organizations (and individuals) that work with and for trafficked and migrant women. The organization also brings out a number of publications, such as Human Rights and Trafficking in Persons: A Handbook.
HERA (Health, Empowerment, Rights and Accountability) www.iwhc.org/hera This is a worldwide coalition of women’s organizations working to ensure the implementation of the agreements reached at the International Conf
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