Organisations

Change is a women's human rights organisation based in London, operating through contacts all over the world. Its purpose is to promote and protect women's human rights worldwide and to effect real changes in all aspects of women's lives, including: women's access to democracy; women's poverty; woman's access to economic decision making; and violence against women. Change has a resource centre that is open to the public

IPPF promotes the right of women and men, including young people, to decide freely the number and spacing of their children, and the right to the highest possible level of sexual and reproductive health. It emphasises maternal and child health and works to promote safe motherhood. It recognises male needs and responsibilities, and actively encourages men's participantion in family planning and other sexual and reproductive health issues. It promotes and supports equal rights and empowerment for women. It recognises that young people have the right to sexual and reproductive health information, education, health, choice and confidentiality. Focuses on five priority areas, including adolescents, HIV/AIDS, abortion, access and advocacy. Publishes widely, and publications can be downloaded as free resources.

Womankind Worldwide is a development and women's human rights agency tahat supports women's economic, social and political equality. It works with women and men to eliminate gender inequality and to end women's poverty

WUS promotes education for development. It supports educational projects overseas, scholarship programmes and provides advice to refugees, involving students and educationalists in the UK in information and action campaigns

STEP is an operational tool to promote the extension of social protection for men and women workers in the informal economy. This is achieved by bolstering the confidence of the excluded so that they realise that not only do they have the right to seek basic human security and universal and equitable access to social protection services, but that they also have the ability. Making efforts to make women more visible in their social and economic roles. This contributes to the overall preparations for the follow up to the 4th World Conference on Women in Bejing (1995) through the "Bejing plus 5" in 2000. Through a participatory approach, STEP works in the field of microinsurance as a means for the excluded to claim their basic human security, such as equitable access to health care and other social protection services. The STEP strategies include the implementation of development projects, action research, advocacy and policy dialogue. STEP works in partnership with governments, workers' and employers' organisations, international development organisations, research centres, group-based organisations (social economy) and selected NGOs

The ECDU develops support programmes in disadvantaged communities