Happy International Women's Day, 2025!
Students from Pat Buck's WGSS 2020: Women in Global Perspective course were assigned the project of creating presentations featuring international organizations doing work by and for women in honor of International Women's Day.
Click the links below to view their presentations!
Pavena Hongsakul Foundation for Children and Women
Founder Paweena Hongsakul is a Thai politician and women's and children's rights activist. She was previously the Minister of Social Development and Human Security in Thailand. Hongsakul ha…
The International Community of Women Living with HIV
In July 1992, 57 women living with HIV attended a workshop in the Netherlands to discuss and share their experiences with family, discrimination, financial hardship, and lack of access to a…
Women Cross DMZ
Women Cross DMZ (WCDMZ) is a nonprofit organization mobilizing women internationally to advocate for peace in Korea. They are the primary sponsors of the Korea Peace Now! campaign. They advocate for a formal end to the Korean War...
Pro Mujer
Pro Mujer serves women all across Latin America for over 35 years by bridging the gap between them and the equality they deserve. They accomplish this through comprehensive healthcare at a …
Ibtada
Ibtada is a non-profit, non-governmental organization working in the Mewat region of Rajasthan in northwestern India. The organization works in 550 villages to promote education, entreprene…
Days For Girls
Days For Girls is an NGO that focuses on providing "cost-effective, safe, sustainable, and contextually relevant" menstrual products to people all around the world
MADRE
MADRE is a global women's human rights organization which works to advance gender justice, climate justice, and human rights. Since 1983, the coalition has worked in partnership with grassr…
The Azad Foundation
The Azad Foundation is based in India and works towards a more equal opportunity for women and men. According to Azad themselves, "Azad particularly focuses on women and girls’ education an…
Women Enabled International
Women Enabled International is an organization created to work on “dismantling discrimination, stigma, and stereotypes to ensure substantive equality for women, girls, and gender non-confor…
CAMFED
(Campaign for Female Education) is a pan-African, grassroots-led organization whose mission is to fight poverty, inequality, and injustice through providing young girls with education and the tools they need...
AmplifyChange
"A Fund to Break the Silence on SRHR"
AmplifyChange is an NGO that supports civil society organizations in Africa, South
Asia, and the Middle East to improve sexual and reproductive health and rights.
EngenderHealth
EngenderHealth is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization funded by bilateral and multilateral donor agencies, private foundations, other funding institutions, and individual benefactors.
Women Impacting Nigeria
Women Impacting Nigeria (WIN) is a nonprofit organization founded by Tope Imasekha in 2010. Their mission is to empower women to achieve gender equality and succeed economically, contributi…