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• "WO=MEN, Your best fiend in making equality between women and men a reality", Publication/handbook from the European Youth Forum (December 2007) Online at: http://www.youthforum.org/Downloads/Press_publications/reports/handbook_gender.pdf or www.salto-youth.net/find-a-tool/957.html
  
  
• "Gender Matters - A manual on addressing gender-based violence affecting young people" (2007), publication from the Council of Europe. (ISBN 978-92-871-6393-6) Online at: http://book.coe.int/ (use search engine with the title of the manual) or www.salto-youth.net/find-a-tool/955.html
  
  
• "Our voices heard - Time to empower Roma Women" - Report from Romani Women's Rights Conference held in Sweden in December 2007 provided a forum for discussion about the challenges facing Romani women today. Online at www.salto-youth.net/find-a-tool/959.html
  
  
• "Empowering young women to lead change" - a training manual for young women to catalyse positive change in their lives and communities from the YWCA. Online at www.salto-youth.net/find-a-tool/954.html
  
  

• "Active participation of young minority women in European public life" - Report on intercultural learning and gender mainstreaming as ways to promote social inclusion and participation of young minority women from Young Women from Minorities (WFM). Online at www.salto-youth.net/find-a-tool/956.html
  

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• Women Watch: Women Watch is the central gateway to information and resources on the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women throughout the United Nations system, including the United Nations Secretariat, regional commissions, funds, programmes, specialized agencies and academic and research institutions. It is a joint United Nations project created in March 1997 to provide Internet space for global gender equality issues and to support implementation of the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action. Online at: http://www.un.org/womenwatch/
  
  
• Feminist Self Defence: Feminist Self Defence addresses the physical, verbal and emotional areas of self defence for women. Online at: http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2002/04/fighting_back_self_defence_for_women_girls
  
  
• Emotional Intelligence: Emotional Intelligence (EI), often measured as an Emotional Intelligence Quotient (EQ), describes an ability, capacity, or skill to perceive, assess, and manage the emotions of one's self, of others, and of groups. It is a relatively new area of psychological research. This Wikipedia page gives links to further information on the concept: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_intelligence
  
  
• Paulo Freire Institute: : The institute works to promote Freire's work in the field of social justice. Online at:http://www.paulofreireinstitute.org/
  
  
• Participation Net: participation.net is a global, online space for sharing ideas about the participation of people in development, citizenship, governance and rights. We welcome researchers, practitioners, activists, educators, policy makers and others from around the world to exchange diverse views and resources. Online at: www.pnet.ids.ac.uk/about.htm
  
  
• Theatre of the oppressed and the oppression of women - Newsletter. Online at www.theatreoftheoppressed.org or www.salto-youth.net/find-a-tool/958.html
  
  
• Zimmerman and Rappaport: online article on "the evidence on effectiveness of empowerment to improve health" at http://www.euro.who.int/Document/E88086.pdf (2006)
  
  
• Social cohesion and intrapersonal empowerment: gender as moderator - online at: http://her.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/19/5/533 (2004)
  
  
• Pathways of Women's Empowerment links academics, activists and practitioners working to advance women's empowerment locally, regionally and through global policy processes. Website: www.pathwaysofempowerment.org
  
  
• Centre for Women's Global Leadership develops and facilitates women's leadership for women's human rights and social justice worldwide. http://www.cwgl.rutgers.edu/index.html
  
  
• The Council of Women World Leaders is a network of current and former women presidents and prime ministers. Online at: http://www.womenworldleaders.org/
  
  
• Equality Now works for the protection and promotion of the human rights of women around the world. Working with national human rights organisations and individual activists, Equality Now documents violence and discrimination against women and mobilises international action to support their efforts to stop these human rights abuses: http://www.equalitynow.org/ (website in Arabic, English, French and Spanish)
  
  
• Gender at Work Dialogues - An interactive and productive space for conversations and collaboration on working towards gender equality through organisational change: http://www.genderatwork.org/dialogues/
  
  
• Initiative for Inclusive Security includes The Women Waging Peace Network, a network of women peacemakers from conflict areas around the world: http://www.huntalternatives.org/pages/7_the_initiative_for_inclusive_security.cfm
  
  
• International Women's Democracy Center supports women's global leadership through training, education, networking and research in all facets of democracy: http://www.iwdc.org/
  
  
• Madre is an international women's human rights organisation that works in partnership with community-based women's organisations worldwide to address issues of health and reproductive rights, economic development, education, and other human rights: http://www.madre.org/ (website in English and Spanish)
  
  

• Peace Women International Project monitors and works toward rapid and full implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security. http://www.peacewomen.org/ (website in English, French and Spanish)

  
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• Follow the Women is an international non-governmental organisation, comprised of approximately 300 ordinary women, from as many as 30 different countries, who support peace and an end to violence in the Middle-East: www.followthewomen.com
  
  
• Take Back the Tech - A global network of women who support women networking for social change and women's empowerment, through the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). http://www.takebackthetech.net/frontpage/
  
  
• UN International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women - INSTRAW promotes applied research on gender, facilitates information sharing, and supports capacity building through networking mechanisms such as GAINS and multi-stakeholder partnerships with UN agencies, governments, academia and civil society. http://www.un-instraw.org/ (website in English, French and Spanish)
  
  
• UNIFEM: Women, Peace and Security - A portal providing access to the information and analysis that is currently available on the impact of armed conflict on women and women's role in peace-building. http://womenwarpeace.net/
  
  
• Vital Voices Global Partnership is an organisation which invests in emerging women leaders. http://www.vitalvoices.org/
  
  
• WHRnet aims to provide reliable, comprehensive, and timely information and analyses on women's human rights in English, Spanish and French. http://whrnet.org/
  
  
• Women's Learning Partnership (WLP) supports women's leadership and empowerment. http://www.learningpartnership.org/ (website in Arabic, English and French)
  
  
• Women's Rights and Citizenship - International Development Research Centre - A programme aimed at supporting applied research in the field of women's rights, citizenship and development: http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-29737-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html

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