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Social Conditions
 Websites presented in alphabetical order The Afghan Womens' Mission (AWM) 
 This organization was "founded in response to the compelling need for adequate hospital facilities in Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan." The website includes background information about the Afghan refugee crisis, an image gallery, current news, and electronic postcards highlighting the plight of women in Afghanistan. AWM is a project of IHC (International Humanities Center) and works closely with the Revolutionary Association of Women of Afghanistan (RAWA). http://afghanwomensmission.org/ Topics: September 11 & Beyond, Women Last updated Aug 11, 2005 Afghanistan Unveiled
Focusing on the "first team of women video journalists to be trained in Afghanistan," this Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) Independent Lens documentary looks at "the effects on Afghan women of the Taliban's oppressive rule and the United States-sponsored bombing campaign." Includes features on the training and on Afghan women's rights, a timeline, video clips, related readings, and educator resources. http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/afghanistanunveiled/ Topics: Communications, News, September 11 & Beyond, Women Last updated Nov 17, 2004 Before Victoria: Extraordinary Women of the British Romantic Era
This online exhibit features essays on some of the intrepid revolutionary women who lived in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, when women could not join professions and married women had no rights to property or to their own children. Offers illustrated topical essays on Mary Wollstonecraft and other writers, artists, travelers, and women of the Romantic era. Includes a reading list. From the New York Public Library. http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/victoria/ Topics: Literary Movements and Periods, Notable People: Women, Women Last updated Apr 26, 2005 Diary of a Sex Slave
Special report from October 2006 that focuses on a young woman who was lured to California from South Korea "by international sex traffickers." Includes photos, audio clips, and articles about how "San Francisco is a major center for international crime networks that smuggle and enslave," and about a plan to curb sex trafficking in San Francisco. From the website for the San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/sextrafficking/ Topics: Crime, Labor, Women Last updated Nov 1, 2007 Equal Time
This September 2003 report discusses gender equality in European politics and business. Includes profiles of Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh, who was murdered in 2003, and Freya Van den Bossche, Belgian Minister of Environment, Sustainable Development, and Consumer Affairs. Provides statistics on gender equity and related stories. From Time Europe. http://www.time.com/time/europe/gender/ Topics: Business, Environment, Politics by Place, Social Issues, Women Last updated Aug 15, 2004 Imagining Ourselves: A Global Generation of Women
This online exhibition, based on a project begun in 2001, features "film, photography, music, poetry, and personal essays -- all responding to the question 'What Defines Your Generation of Women?'" Explore the exhibit by selecting a theme such as love, money, war and dialog, motherhood, and image and identity. Also includes material about activism opportunities. Available in several languages. From the International Museum of Women. http://imaginingourselves.imow.org/ Topics: Women Last updated May 15, 2008 Improving Access to Rural Radio by 'Hard-to-Reach' Women Audiences
This 2001 paper examines "the implications to women's access to the radio [in Africa]. Whether their issues are being mainstreamed on radio. Does the radio give women a voice? And how amplified is this voice?" Features statistics and results of surveys on radio and gender issues, radio ownership and listenership, and station choice. Presented for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) First International Workshop on Farm Radio Broadcasting. http://www.fao.org/docrep/003/x6721e/x6721e15.htm Topics: Agriculture, Home & Housing, Home & Housing, Media, Media, Regions of the World, Regions of the World, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment, Women Last updated Feb 9, 2007 Señorita Extraviada
This companion to a 2002 Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) program "wades into the chaos of a booming border town to ask questions the authorities would rather ignore" about the "over 270 woman [who] have been raped and murdered" in Juárez, Mexico, since 1993. Includes articles about Juárez and about maquiladoras ("foreign-owned assembly plants operated along the U.S.-Mexico border"), a list of "border lingo" with audio pronunciation guides, and related resources. http://www.pbs.org/pov/senoritaextraviada/ Topics: Business, Crime, Regions of the World, Women Last updated Sep 9, 2009 U.S. Women Without Borders
This site features educational materials on issues affecting women, such as trafficking in women and girls, honor killings, and the war in Sudan. Find articles about current events, discussion groups, and details about legislation and opportunities to help improve the situation of women. A project of the Women's Funding Network, "an international organization ... committed to improving the status of women and girls locally, nationally and globally." http://www.uswomenwithoutborders.org Topics: Women Last updated Feb 9, 2006 WomenWatch
This site "is the central gateway to information and resources on the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women throughout the United Nations system." Features news and links to sites and reports on topics such as gender mainstreaming, statistics and indicators, education and training, health, violence against women, rural women, HIV/AIDS, and more. From the United Nations Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality (IANWGE). http://www.un.org/womenwatch/ Topics: Women Last updated Feb 26, 2008 YWCA: Our History
Timeline of the history of the YWCA, which was formed in London in 1855 as the Young Women's Christian Association and introduced in the United States in 1858. Includes YWCA programs such as boarding houses for female students, African American and Native American branches, work with women in labor and industry, and racial justice efforts. From YWCA USA. http://www.ywca.org/site/pp.asp?c=djISI6PIKpG&b=281379 Topics: Social Issues, Women Last updated Feb 6, 2008 |
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