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For example, acts of violence committed by men against women do not happen in a vacuum, but are part of a social context: in Opuz v Turkey, the ECHR defined violence against women as a form of discrimination against women; [181] [182] this is also the position of the Istanbul Convention which at Article 3 states that "violence against women" is ...
The National Organization for Women (NOW) is an American feminist organization. Founded in 1966, it is legally a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization. The organization consists of 550 chapters in all 50 U.S. states and in Washington, D.C. [5] It is the largest feminist organization in the United States with around 500,000 members. [6]
Kudumbashree (IPA: [ku.ɖum.bɐʃ.riː]; means 'Prosperity of the family' [1]) is a poverty eradication and women empowerment programme implemented by the Government of Kerala. Kudumbashree has a three-tier structure for its women community network, with Neighborhood Groups (NHGs) at the lowest level, Area Development Societies (ADS) at the ...
Women for Human Rights, single women group (WHR): WHR is dedicated to creating an active network of single women on a national and international level, addressing their rights and welfare. [ citation needed ]
Some groups considered that the Commission on Women Rights Promotion under Executive Yuan should be expanded, while other groups, including the National Alliance of Taiwan Women's Associations, considered that gender mainstreaming is not promotion of women's rights but an assessment of all policies and requires a specific organization.
The black power movement or black liberation movement was a branch or counterculture within the civil rights movement of the United States, reacting against its more moderate, mainstream, or incremental tendencies and motivated by a desire for safety and self-sufficiency that was not available inside redlined African American neighborhoods.
The Zambian National Women's Lobby (NWLG, National Women's Lobby Group, ZNWL) is a Zambian organization whose mission is to "bridge the gender gap in political decision making by advocating for increased women's participation and representation". [1]
According to Harper, White women needed suffrage for education, but "Black women need the vote, not as a form of education, but as a form of protection". [9] In the 1890s Ida B. Wells , a trailblazing journalist and activist, became famous for seeking to find the truth about the lynching of Black men, a subject that many White feminists avoided.