RESOURCE LINKS
Following are links to websites that we feel are great educational and informational resources for women. They are presented in alphabetical order in several different categories. We will be continually adding to this page, so check back often.
PUBLICATIONS & STORY TELLING
Celebration
of Strength
Injecting a fresh perspective into the everyday issues that impact women, this
site invites women to share their stories of strength.
Offerings
Magazine
Receives the Offerings of women's lives in the forms of images, art,
poetry, short stories, essays and conversations. These Offerings are
presented to the world in a way that engages readers and contributors
alike in reflection, inquiry and dialogue.
Spheres
Women's Circles Magazine
This bi-monthly magazine is a connecting tool that serves as an expanding
resource and forum for the expression of the feminine heart.
ORGANIZATIONS
CEDAW
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against
Women (CEDAW), adopted in 1979 by the UN General Assembly, is
often described as an international bill of rights for women.
Consisting of a preamble and 30 articles, it defines what constitutes
discrimination against women and sets up an agenda for national
action to end such discrimination.
Circles
of Ten
A grassroots, non-profit organization that emphasizes the empowerment
of women to create a culture of peace at home, in schools, in their
communities, and in the world.
Crones Counsel
The vision of Crones
Counsel is to reclaim the Crone archetype through the
creation of gatherings of women which model processes that:
promote equality, encourage diversity,
support personal empowerment, and honor the value to society of older
women's wisdom and accomplishments
Gather
the Women Global Matrix
A gathering place for women and women's organizations who share a belief
that the time is now to activate the incredible power of women's wisdom
on a planetary scale.
Global
Family
Founded in 1986, Global Family is a non-profit international network of individuals
and groups who choose to experience themselves as members of one human family
and who desire to actualize their true life purpose through joining with others
in compassionate action for the benefit of all.
The Millionth Circle
Intention: 1) to seed and nurture circles,
wherever possible, in order to cultivate equality, sustainable livelihoods,
preservation of the earth and peace for all, 2) to bring the circle
process into United Nations accredited NGOs and the 5th UN World Conference
on Women, and 3) to connect circles so they may know themselves as
a part of a larger movement to shift consciousness in the world.
The
New Road Map Foundation
The New Road Map Foundation seeks to foster a cooperative human community in
a diverse yet interconnected world by creating and disseminating practical tools
and innovative approaches to personal and cultural change. We promote love and
service as routes to personal and social well-being.
PEACE X PEACE
Mission is to improve the status of women and build
sustainable peace. We assist women in reaching their full potential
as leaders and decision-makers alongside men by providing women with
an innovative tool: our Internet-based Global Network, which facilitates
direct online communications between women-led groups ("Circles")
across the United States and Sister Circles around the world.
PeerSpirit
An education and service company that believes council, or circle, to be the
common root of all cultures, a tradition that can take us from the campfire
to the future. Council facilitates a level of conversation that allows groups
of people to accomplish goals through an integrated experience of heart
and mind.
SpiralMuse
SpiralMuse is an organization to connect and inspire
women as community, manifesting their visions and living
their dreams. We celebrate depth and partnership, health
and healing, and each woman's full expression for all to
see, feel and experience. We honor wisdom, tradition and
legacy through women sharing stories, revealing each other's
essence and acknowledging our gifts. We are an expression of woman
as muse, authentic femininity weaving itself into a powerful
community, a community we call SpiralMuse.
WUNRN
The Women's United Nations Report Program & Network
(WUNRN) is a non-governmental organization to implement the
conclusions and recommendations of a United Nations Study
on Freedom of Religion of Belief and the Status of Women
From the Viewpoint of Religion and Traditions.
PROJECTS
5WWC.org
The purpose of this interactive website is to create
groundswell support for a 5th United Nations International
Conference on Women that, in turn, will be an influence on
the decision-makers at the United Nations. You can
sign the petition at:
www.petitiononline.com/5WWC/petition.html
Feminist.com
The Feminist.com web site was founded to initiate and facilitate grassroots mobilization,
networking and communication around important political, health and educational
issues related to women. The site is dedicated to promoting and sustaining
women's well-being through the principles embodied in their motto: "Awareness,
Education, Activism and Empowerment."
HERvoices
As our communities become more diverse, and as misunderstanding
too often leads to intolerance, HERvoices’ presentations introduce the
unknown ‘others’ down the block and around the world to
you.
HERvoices’ mission is to increase tolerance and decrease violence locally and globally by including more women and girls in the conversation: the radio programs, articles, films, books, conference panels, public records and dialogues around us.
United
States Social Forum (USSF)
Under the banner of ‘Another World is Possible,’ tens of thousands
of community organizers, trade unionists, students/youth, NGO representatives,
elected officials and social movements gather for a weeklong conference filled
with dialogues, workshops, debates, marches, rallies, and cultural events. The
World Social Forum (WSF) was created to provide an open platform to discuss alternatives
to the economic plans created by multi-national corporations and the governments
at the World Economic Forum that often result in strategies that suppress workers
and human rights, and undermine national and Indigenous sovereignty. The USSF
has since become an annual event, hosting up to 100,000 people each year.
US Women
Connect
Mission is to connect all US women for a larger, louder, more powerful and collective
voice in polices critical to women and our families. Building bridges from the
ground up, USWC is linking state coalitions and alliances across county lines
into state networks for support of a US women’s agenda and the Beijing+10
Platform for Action for equality, development and peace.
WITH Forgiveness
WITH Forgiveness is an inter-active community
where we share, learn, support and celebrate one another as we free our
hearts and minds from fear, anger, resentment, suffering and pain. Forgiveness
is the way! Our intent is to embody, express, and experience unconditional
love, compassion, kindness and peace for ourselves and our world. Now's
the time to say YES to "being the change we wish to see in the world."
CONVERSATION PROCESSES
Conversation
Café
At Conversation Cafés, we will learn together how to create a culture
of conversation—which is a culture of intelligence, peace, and political
awareness.
World
Café
World Café Conversations are an intentional way to create a
living network of conversation around questions that matter. A Café Conversation
is a creative process for leading collaborative dialogue, sharing knowledge
and creating possibilities for action in groups of all sizes.