Women's Rights Resources

As an organization committed to the advancement of women's rights, we fight for equal opportunities and equal access to information, education, resources. Knowledge is power. Here is a list of resources with information about women's rights as well as services that women everywhere can take advantage of.

Women's Rights: Population Matters has created a page dedicated to understanding women's rights and gender equality. It demonstrates how issues like forced marriages, gender-based violence, sexual violence, and barriers in education and employment affect women around the world.

Fight for Women's Rights: Bernie Sanders details the issue of women's rights and his key points on how women's rights issues in the United States could be addressed.

Women's Rights and Opportunities: Hillary Clinton details women's rights and lists potential points on how to address the issues women face in the United States.

International Federation for Human Rights: Women's Rights: This page includes a video and details the importance of protection and promotion of women's rights, especially when it comes to discrimination in law and practice, sexual and reproductive rights, and violence against women.

Women's Human Rights and Gender Equality: The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner includes a detailed list on the importance of protecting women and LGBTI people around the world.

Amnesty International Women's Rights: Amnesty International details discrimination and how important women's rights are to human rights by explaining what goals they are hoping to achieve for women worldwide.

Women's Rights Issues: This page from the ACLU discusses what's at stake for women's rights and the current issues they are hoping to focus on worldwide.

Women Empowering Women: Women Empowering Women is a set of events created to help integrate gender equality and women's empowerment within the private sector.

The Academy for Women Entrepreneurs: The Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs created the Academy for Women Entrepreneurs in order to provide female businesswomen with the skills and resources necessary for their businesses to thrive.

Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment: USAID works to improve the lives of people around the world by addressing their needs. Learn what work they do in the realm of gender equality and women's empowerment and how important those topics are for diversity and humanitarian work.

Global Issues: Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment: This page from the Peace Corps includes a detailed overview of the global issue of gender equality and includes definitions for several keywords that are important in the discussion of gender equality and women's empowerment.

Women's Human Rights: The Global Fund for Women explains what women's rights are and what the fight for women's rights includes, what the future of women's rights looks like, and global goals that we're all working towards.

Good Practices in the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women: In 2016 and 2017, the Woman's Human Rights Institute began a two-year research and advocacy project to further understand the needs of promoting women's self-empowerment by identifying potential good laws that promote equality.

Why Gender Equality Matters: This page from Equality Now uses videos, infographics, and a detailed overview to show why inequality against women and harmful gender-based practices are bad for everybody, not just women, which helps further their point of advocating for global gender equality.

The Forgotten Origins of "Women's Rights are Human Rights": This article from Open Global Rights discusses the origins of the phrase, "women's rights are human rights", and how it went from a small grassroots movement to a slogan used on an international level.

Women's Health and Rights: 25 Years of Progress?: This World Health International article discusses the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the blueprint for advancing gender equality. It was put into effect 25 years ago, so this article covers how gender equality has changed during that time period.

The Human Rights of Women: This page contains the official reference guide for the United Nations on the human rights of women.

Women Human Rights Defenders: Women human rights defenders are women around the world who work to advance and protect women's rights while facing discrimination and stereotypes themselves.

"Women's Rights are Human Rights" aka How Equality Became a U.S. Foreign Policy: This article covers the Beijing Declaration and what led to it.

Women's Rights are Human Rights: Thanks to the Beijing Platform for Action, which became the blueprint for worldwide women's human rights by identifying 12 areas of concern for women around the world, women's rights have changed from the suffrage movement to become a mosaic of women of all walks of life coming together to gain the right to participate fully in their social and political lives.

Why are Women's Rights Important?: The Political Youth Network includes this deep dive into why women's rights are important to men and women around the world and how women are discriminated against in their day-to-day lives.

Feminism and Women's Rights Movements: This article includes a detailed overview of every wave of feminism and the various women's rights movements throughout the last century.

The Equal Rights Amendment: What You Need to Know: This page describes what the Equal Rights Amendment is and how it would differ from the original laws set in place to advance gender equality.

A Timeline of Women's Legal History in the United States (PDF): Professor Cunnea from Stanford created this guide that details significant historical events for women and their experience with the law, whether it be creating laws, using it in their favor, suffering from it, or practicing it as a profession.

Women's Rights Guide (PDF): This guide from Harvard professors covers the advancements of women's equality and how despite those advancements, there are still significant barriers in place that keep women from achieving the full equality they've been working towards for decades.