Websites that were directly useful to preparing and editing
this compilation have been included in this list. It is not
meant to be an exhaustive list of websites relating to reproductive
and sexual health rights. For more websites on the topic of
reproductive and sexual health, or on women's international
rights more generally, please see the Women's Human Rights
Resources Website at: http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/Diana/.
Action Canada For Population and Development
http://www.acpd.ca
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 and an emerging focus on international migration and development.
Alan-Guttmacher Institute
http://www.agi-usa.org/index.html
AGI is an independent non-profit corporation and is a special
affiliate of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. The
site contains information on reproductive health issues relating
to sexual behaviour, pregnancy and birth, prevention and contraception,
abortion, sexually transmitted diseases, youth, and law and
public policy.
Last visited date: September 2004
Amnesty International's Work on Women
http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/intcam/women/index.html
Contains many valuable links including: full text documents
from governmental and non-governmental organizations worldwide,
full text country reports, focus issues which are linked to
a list of current events around the world, and other resources.
Last visited date: September 2004
Center for Reproductive Rights
http://www.crlp.org
The Center for Reproductive Law and Policy is "a non-profit
legal and policy advocacy organization dedicated to promoting
women's reproductive rights". This site contains information
on CRLP projects in the United States and worldwide. It also
provides online access to newsletters and publications of
the CRLP.
Last visited date: September 2004
Commonwealth Medical Association Trust (ComMAT)
http://www.commat.org
This site contains an overview of upcoming sessions of the
five UN Treaty Bodies discussed in this manual. It also provides
the schedules for States Parties' reports to the human rights
treaty bodies. In addition, ComMAT posts the portions of States
Parties' reports that pertain to health.
Last visited date: September 2004
Equality Now
http://www.equalitynow.org
Equality Now is a US based human rights organization, which
documents abuses against women around the globe. "Taking
advantage of both traditional and "high tech" action
techniques such as letter writing and fax campaigns, video
witnessing, media events and public information activities,
Equality Now mobilizes action on behalf of individual women
whose rights are being violated and promotes women's rights
at local, national and international levels." This site
provides access to some of the organization's publications
and provides updates about ongoing human rights abuses against
women in various parts of the world.
Last visited date: September 2004
Harvard Law School Annual Review of Population Law
http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/annual_review/annual_review.htm
This database contains summaries and excerpts of legislation,
constitutions, court decisions, and other official government
documents from every country in the world relating to population
policies, reproductive health, women's rights, and related
topics. It is produced jointly by Harvard Law School and the
United Nations Population Fund.
Last visited date: September 2004
Human Rights Internet
http://www.hri.ca/
Human Rights Internet is a Canada-based organization created
to promote the exchange of information within the worldwide
human rights community. This site provides access to full
text articles on human rights, a list of publications, as
well as links to other human rights websites. It also contains
information that relates to a range of women's human rights
issues and is fully searchable.
Last visited date: September 2004
International Center for Research on Women
http://www.icrw.org
This site provides recent research on reproductive and sexual
health issues, including, HIV/AIDS, reproductive health, adolescence
and violence against women.
Last visited September 2004
International Council of AIDS Services Organizations
(CICASO)
http://www.icaso.org
Contains online documents relating to AIDS, including information
about vaccines. There are links to ICASO's five regional offices,
and descriptions of human rights violations that NGOs often
encounter. Also contains information about forthcoming AIDS
conferences.
Last visited September 2004
International Lesbian and Gay Association
http://www.ilga.org
Website provides information and news from around the world
relating to gays and lesbians. It includes comprehensive data
on laws affecting lesbians and gays world-wide, on a country
by country basis.
Last visited September 2004
International Planned Parenthood Federation
http://www.ippf.org/
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. This site contains
information on IPPF, the largest voluntary organization in
the world concerned with family planning and sexual and reproductive
health, as well as links to other important sites.
Last visited date: September 2004
International Women's Rights Action Watch
http://www.igc.apc.org/iwraw/
IWRAW provides technical assistance and research support
for women's human rights projects such as law reform, policy
advocacy, and monitoring government performance under international
human rights treaties, and establishes vital connections with
others that are concerned with implementing women's human
rights. This site also contains instructions and example shadow
reports, which will be useful for non-governmental organizations
participating in the CEDAW reporting mechanism.
Last visited date: September 2004
Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM), Faculty
of Law
http://sim.law.uu.nl/SIM/Dochome.nsf?Open
This site contains up to date full text Concluding Observations
and General Comments/Recommendations from each of the international
treaty monitoring bodies.
Last visited September 2004
Safe Motherhood
www.safemotherhood.org
This site contains information about a variety of safe motherhood
initiatives, which assess the problem of maternal deaths and
disability and also recommend solutions. There are links to
a number of full-text facts sheets and compilations of data.
Last visited September 2004
UNAIDS
www.unaids.org
This site includes information on the projects, research and
conferences sponsored by UNAIDS and aimed at supporting a
world-wide response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The site contains
an extensive collection of full text documents and publications,
including country by country data on HIV/AIDS prevalence.
UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
Against Women
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/
This site contains the Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Discrimination Against Women as well as official
documents of past sessions and other information relevant
to the Women's Convention.
Last visited date: September 2004
United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF)
www.unicef.org/
This site provides information on all UNICEF programs and
research. The site also makes available UNICEF's annual "State
of the World's Children Reports."
United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
http://www.unifem.undp.org/
UNIFEM promotes women's empowerment and gender equality.
It works to ensure the participation of women in all levels
of development planning and practice, and acts as a catalyst
within the UN system, supporting efforts that link the needs
and concerns of women to all critical issues on the national,
regional and global agendas. UNIFEM focuses its work at the
country level within the context of the United Nations Resident
Coordinator System. Playing a strong advocacy role, the Fund
concentrates on fostering a multilateral policy dialogue on
women's empowerment. This site links to the Women's Convention
and includes a CEDAW Advocacy Kit created by UNIFEM.
Last visited date: September 2004
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
http://www.unhchr.ch
This website has become the reference human rights site on
the internet, providing complete and updated information on
the activities carried out by the United Nations in the field
of human rights, as well as full text access to United Nations
documents in this field. Concluding Observations from the
treaty bodies can also be found on this site. Information
with respect to ratification by state parties and dates for
upcoming reports of specific state parties are available
Last visited date: September 2004
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
http://www.unfpa.org/
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) provides assistance
to developing countries, countries with economies in transition
and other countries at their request to help them address
reproductive health and population issues, and raises awareness
of these issues in all countries. This site contains resource
information about current events affecting reproductive health
and population, publications and reports by the UNFPA, as
well as links to related NGO and UN sites.
Last visited date: September 2004
University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
http://www.umn.edu/humanrts/
This site contains a collection of many of the most important
international human rights instruments, such as treaties and
declarations, and is searchable by keyword. The entire database
of documents can be searched via a variety of search engines.
This site is constantly being expanded and improved.
Last visited date: September 2004
Women's Human Rights Resources: Reproductive and
Sexual Rights
http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/Diana/
The Women's Reproductive and Sexual Rights section is a relatively
new addition to Women's Human Rights Resources website, an
internet website project of the University of Toronto Bora
Laskin Law Library. This site contains a bibliography of academic
legal literature relating to the international protection
of Reproductive and Sexual Health rights. This site also contains
links to full text human rights documents, as well as some
full text articles relating to the topic of Reproductive and
Sexual health.
Last visited date: September 2004
Womenwatch
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/
This UN site focuses on the advancement and empowerment of
women. It provides information about the work of the United
Nations entities and inter governmental and treaty bodies
that deal with the advancement and empowerment of women, and
about international instruments on women's rights. This site
also provides quick access to the websites of The United Nations
Division For the Advancement of Women (DAW), the United Nations
Commission For the Status of Women (CSW), and the Committee
on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).
Last visited date: September 2004
World Health Organization (WHO): Department of Reproductive
Health and Research
http://www.who.int/rht/
The World Health Organization (WHO) is the directing and
co-ordinating authority on international health work. The
home page of the Department of Reproductive Health and Research
provides information about the dimensions of reproductive
health, family planning and population, maternal and newborn
health and reproductive tract infections.
Last visited date: September 2004
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