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Sexuality Policy Watch

Sexuality Policyi Watch (SPW) is a global forum composed of researchers and activists from various regions. Since 2002, SPW has undertaken many projects under a two-fold mission: “to contribute to sexuality related global policy debates through strategic policy-oriented research and analysis projects, and to promote more effective linkages between local, regional and global initiatives”. SPW has two secretariats, one based in Brazil and the other in the United States of América. SPW is also one of the APC's EroTICsi Project partners. In partnership with CLAM, the Latin American Center for Sexuality and Human Rightsi, SPW is involved in the Brazil case study on interneti regulationi, gender and sexuality.

Youth Coalition for Sexual and Reproductive Rights

The Youth Coalition is an international organization of young people committed to promoting adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive rights at the national, regional and international levels. Advocacyi, generating knowledge, sharing information, building partnerships and training activists are the main ways to secure the participation of young people in decision-making in sexual and reproductive rights field. Among other activities, it promotes youth advocacy campaigns on access to information about the sexual and reproductive health and rights.

OpenNet Initiative

The OpenNet Initiative (ONI) is a collaborative partnership between the Citizen Lab at the Munk Centre for International Studies (University of Toronto), the Berkman Center for Interneti & Society (Harvard University) and the SecDev Group (Ottawa). ONI aims to “investigate, expose and analyse internet filtering and surveillancei practices" from a multi-disciplinary approach as well as “uncover the potential pitfalls and unintended consequences of these practices, and thus help to inform better public policyi and advocacyi work in this area”. As part of the OpenNet Initiative in the Asia region (ONI-Asia), a gender team was established. The team has aimed to incorporate a gender lens into the research framework, including assessment of different impacts on men and women.

WomenAction 2000

WomenAction 2000, a global network of women's information and media organisations, was formed to ensure world access to the decisions made during the UN Special Session of the General Assembly (Beijing Plus 5) entitled “Women 2000: Gender Equalityi, Development and Peace for the 21st Century” in New York, 5-9 June 2000. The network members included African Gender Institute (South Africa), ALAI (Ecuador), APC Women's Networkingi Support, Programme, Asian-Pacific Women's Information Network Center (Korea), IIAV (Netherlands), International Women's Tribune Center (USA), ISIS International, Les Penelopes (France), Women'sNet (South Africa) and many others. The main mission of WomenAction 2000 was to be a global information, communication and media network that enables civil society to actively engage in the Beijing+5 review and contribute to women's empowermenti, with a special focus on women and media.

UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women

Appointed to look into the causes and consequences of violence against womeni, the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women has the power to transmit appeals to countries on alleged cases of VAW, undertake fact-finding missions to countries and submit annual thematic reports to the UN General Assembly. This mandate created an institutional mechanism for regular in-depth review and reporting on violence against women around the world. The work is conducted within the framework of the international human rightsi regime and includes recommendations on how to elliminate violence against women and its causes and remedy its consequences.

Take Back the Tech! global campaign

Take Back the Tech!i is a global campaign that looks at the connection between information and communication technologies (ICTi) and violence against womeni. The campaign was initiated by the Association for Progressive Communicationsi' Women's Networking Support Programmei (APC WNSP) in 2006. Since then, the campaign has been taken up, adapted and owned by individuals, groups, networks and organizations all over the world.

Creative Commons

Creative Commonsi is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to making it easier for people to share and build upon the work of others, consistent with the rules of copyrighti. It provides free licenses and other legal tools to mark creative work with the freedom the creator wants it to carry, so others can share, remix, use commercially, or any combination of these.

HINARI Access to Research Initiative

The HINARI Programme, set up by the World Health Organisation together with major publishers, enables developing countries to gain access to one of the world's largest collections of biomedical and health literature. Over 6200 journal titles are now available to health institutions in 108 countries, areas and territories benefiting many thousands of health workers and researchers, and in turn, contributing to improved world health.

Electronic Privacy Frontier

A public interest research centre established in Washington in 1994. Electronic Privacyi Frontier (EPIC) focus on emerging civil liberties issues, such as protection of privacy or freedom of expressioni in the information age. EPIC activities involve policyi research, public education, conferences, litigation, publications, and advocacyi. Among other, EPIC runs 'Domestic Violence and Privacy' project aimed to help practitioners with privacy issues their clients may face.

Secretariado de Género, Ciencia y Tecnología

The Gender, Science and Technology Secretariat for Latin America (SEGECYT- Secretariado de Géneroi, Ciencia y Tecnología para América Latina) was constituted in november 1999. Framed in the recent developments that were taking place in the region regarding Gender, Science and Technology (GST), this initiative pointed to overcome the conceptual and institutional separation that still remain between these fields, focusing on their integration and articulation.

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