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Globalnet #126
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Women's Initiatives and Activities Worldwide by Anne S. Walker
July 23, 1999 (Globalnet #126) and 6 Aug, 1999 (Globalnet #127)
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ONLINE INFORMATION ABOUT BEIJING PLUS FIVE
As part of the NGO Global Communications Network project (WomenAction 2000), an outcome of meetings between national, regional and international women's media networks during PrepCom I for Beijing Plus Five in March 1999, we are making efforts to locate web-sites that carry information on the Beijing Plus Five review process.
Here is a preliminary listing of web-sites that we are currently aware of. Please note that it is a beginning list only and some sites are still under construction. Let us know of other sites that would be of interest to people looking for Beijing Plus Five information, and we will add these to this listing.
1. http//www.womenaction.org WomenAction site for Beijing Plus Five planning (currently under construction). However, the second issue of IWTC's special bulletin on B+5 info entitled Preview 2000 is already available at http//www.womenaction.org/preview.html
More sections will be added as funds and information become available.
2. http//www.oneworld.org/whrnet Women's Human Rights site still under construction, but some information already available.
3. http://www.cwgl.rutgers.edu Center for Women's Global Leadership site, with special B + 5 section.
4. http://www.iisd.ca/4wcw/43sess/index.html International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD). IISD is the producer of the well-known Earth Negotiations Bulletin, and this web site contains coverage of the 43rd Session of CSW (March 1999)5. http://www.iisd.ca/vil14/enb1423e.html Again IISD, containing the final report from Beijing Plus Five PrepCom 1 (March 1999)
4. http//womensnet.org.za Website for WomensNet, South Africa, including regular updates on all matters related to gender (including Beijing Plus Five) in Africa, also international news
5. http//www.africaonline.co.ke/femnet FEMNET Africa site out of Kenya, in English and French.
6. http//www.isis.or.ug Brand new web-site of Isis WICCE (Women's International Cross Cultural Exchange) based in Kampala, Uganda.
7. http//wwwenda.sn/synfev/synfev.htm Web-site of ENDA-Synfev, Senegal. The following 4 web-sites are also part of ENDA-Synfev, which is part of the APC Women's Network Support Programme.
a. http//www.famafrique.org Famafrique web site for francophone African women
b. http//www.enda.sn/synfev/fainfo.htm Electronic information service in French about women in Africa
c. http//www.famafrique.org/toileindex.html La toile d'elles Bimonthly liaison bulletin for francophone African women
d. http//www.famafrique.org/fem2000.html Femmes2000 Information in French about the preparations of Beijing+5 in Africa and worldwide
8. http://www.iwf-casablanca.org International Women's Forum web site, Morocco
8. http//www.isiswomen.org/ Isis International/ Manila's site for Asia/Pacific women.
9. http//www.jca.apc.org/aworc/bpfa/ This site is run by the Asian Women's Resource Exchange (AWORC) for Asia/Pacific Beijing Plus Five planning.
10. http//www.jca.apc.org/aworc/notes/ict/19990317.html Part of the AWORC site for Asia/Pacific, includes good coverage of the Beijing Plus Five PrepCom and the beginnings of the Global Communications project (WomenAction 2000).
11. http//alainet.org ALAI web site out of Ecuador. English, French and Spanish
12. http//www.fempress.cl Fempress web-site out of Chile. Contains articles and other materials about women in LA, many related to Beijing Plus Five plans and preparations. Spanish.
13. http//www.isis.cl Brand new web-site of Isis International/Santiago, with plans for a Beijing Plus Five section later. Spanish.
14. http//www.awid.org Association for Women in Development, based in Washington, DC. AWID also has a regular e-mail bulletin entitled AWID Exchange. Contact awid@awid.org
15. http//www.sympatico.ca/criaw CRIAW (Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement). Has section for Beijing Plus Five plans and preparations in Canada.
16. http://www.freenet.mb.ca/unpac United Nations Platform for Action Committee, manitoba, Canada. Foruses on current and upcoming ativities, conferences and events, local, Canadian and worldwide, related to follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing 1999.
16. http//www.iiav.nl International Archives for the Women's Movement in Amsterdam. There will soon be a new European B + 5 site launched through them that will feature lots of information on NGO organizing around Beijing plus Five in Eastern and Western Europe.
17. http//www.gn.apc.org/apcwomen The GreenNet/APC (Association for Progressive Communications) women's site, UK.
18. http//www.un.org/womenwatch/followup/beijing5/index.html The site for UN follow-up to Beijing activities and events
19. http//www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/followup/beijing+5.htm Division for the Advancement of Women
20. http//www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/ Web-site for UN Commission on the Status of Women
21. http://www.unifem.undp.org UNIFEM's website (UN Development Fund for Women
22. Beginning in July 1999 and running through November 1999, electronic dialogues on the critical areas of concern from the Platform for Action are planned by Womenwatch, (the UN Internet Gateway to information on women's and gender issues). Information on these dialogues is available at http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw by clicking on the Beijing+5 page.
21. http//www.unescap.org UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia/Pacific.
22. http//www.unece.org UN Economic Commission for Europe
23. http//www.uneca.org UN Economic Commission for Africa
24. http//www.unescwa.org UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
25. http//www.eclac.org Economic Commission for Latin America and the Carribean
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