General statistics and information
The World's Women 2000: Trends and Statistics
http://www.un.org/Depts/unsd/ww2000/index.htm
The UN Statistics Division provides a comprehensive analysis of how women fare in different parts of the world. It highlights the main findings of statistical analysis on women's situation as compared to men's worldwide in a broad range of fields including families, health, education, work, human rights and politics.
UN WomenWatch
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/about/
Created to monitor the results of the Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing in 1995, WomenWatch is a joint UN project to create a core Internet space on global women's issues.
Women's Action
http://www.womenaction.org/
Women's Action is a global information, communication and media network that enables NGOs to actively engage in the Beijing+5 review process with the long term goal of women's empowerment with a special focus on women and media.
GenderNet of The World Bank Development Group
http://www.worldbank.org/gender/
This site describes how the World Bank seeks to reduce gender disparities and to enhance women's participation in economic development through its programs and projects. It summarizes knowledge and experience, provides gender statistics, and facilitates discussion on gender and development.
The Virtual Library on Microcredit
http://www.gdrc.org/icm/
Comprehensive database for sources on microcredit.
The Global Policy Forum: Gender and Inequality
http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/inequal/indexgen.htm
Features articles from 1995 to the present about the difficulties women face in a changing global economy and how women worldwide are mobilizing for change.
The Microcredit Summit Campaign
http://www.microcreditsummit.org/
Provides press releases, papers, interviews and coverage of workshops and meetings related to the global campaign to ensure that 100 million of the world's poorest families are receiving credit for self-employment and other financial and business services by the year 2005.
Women Ink.
http://www.womenink.org/
Markets and distributes books on women and development with a focus on perspectives of women from the Global South.
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/index.html
Provides information, news and reports regarding CEDAW. Adopted in 1979 by the UN General Assembly, CEDAW is often described as an international bill of rights for women.
