Center for Gender and Refugee Studies
The Center's mission is to protect the basic human rights of refugee women and girls by advancing gender-sensitive asylum laws, helping advocates successfully represent women in need of protection, and preventing these refugees from being forcibly returned to the countries from which they have fled. The Center also carries out research and advocacy initiatives around human rights violations in regions around the world.
The Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action
CAFRA is a regional network of feminists, individual researchers, activists and women’s organisations that define feminist politics as a matter of both consciousness and action. We are committed to understanding the relationship between the oppression of women and other forms of oppression in the society, and we are working actively for change.
The International Children’s Peace Prize is an initiative of the KidsRights Foundation with the support of the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates. Each year The International Children’s Peace Prize is awarded to a child that has devoted a lot of his or her energy to improving the rights of children.
UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
"A new UN entity designed to boost the global campaign for gender equality. It houses four distinct offices that exists within the United Nations system: the Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW); the Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women (OSAGI); the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM); and the UN International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW)."