Civil Society Advocates

The Violence is Not our Culture (VNC) Campaign was founded in 2007 and is a global network of organisations and individuals committed to end all forms of discrimination and violence against women (VAW) being justified in the name of culture and/or religion. Such forms of gender-based violence include stoning, whipping/lashing, forced marriage, child marriage, female genital mutilation and “honour” killings. The Campaign is now present in Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East and Africa.

CREA (Creating Resources for Empowermentⁱ in Action) is a feminist human rightsⁱ organisation, founded in the year 2000, based in New Delhi, India. It focus on empowerment of women and women's human rightsⁱ defenders through a series of workshops that focus on strengthening feminist leadership, changing public attitudes and addressing social exclusion.

Working with scholars, activists and other partners, CLAM approaches sexuality from a social perspective and fights against the discrimination of sexual minorities in Latin America. In partnership with Sexuality Policyⁱ Watch (SPW), CLAM worked with the Brazilian team of the APC's EroTICsⁱ project - a global research on sexuality and the internetⁱ, which included researchers from Brazil, India, Lebanon, South Africa, and the United Stateⁱs.

The Open Institute is a non-governmentⁱal and not-for-profit organization that works toward widespread access to high quality education, information, communication, and technology, in the belief that this will lead to a more developed and just society.
The mission of the organization is to ensure that the benefits of technology for social and economic advance are available to in Cambodian society. At present, the Open Institute's main programs are: Women Empowermentⁱ for Social Change, Open Schools, Khmer Software Initiative, Mirror Publication, Lexicography and River of Knowledge.