Global Civil Society & the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
While the world has achieved progress towards gender equality and women’s empowerment under the Millennium Development Goals (including equal access to primary education between girls and boys), women and girls continue to suffer discrimination and violence in every part of the world.
Gender equality is not only a fundamental human right, but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world. Unfortunately, at the current time, 1 in 5 women and girls between the ages of 15-49 have reported experiencing physical or sexual violence by an intimate partner within a 12-month period and 49 countries currently have no laws protecting women from domestic violence. Progress is occurring regarding harmful practices such as child marriage and FGM (Female Genital Mutilation), which has declined by 30% in the past decade, but there is still much work to be done to complete eliminate such practices.
Providing women and girls with equal access to education, health care, decent work, and representation in political and economic decision-making processes will fuel sustainable economies and benefit societies and humanity at large. Implementing new legal frameworks regarding female equality in the workplace and the eradication of harmful practices targeted at women is crucial to ending the gender-based discrimination prevalent in many countries around the world.
Name | Acronym | Founded | City HQ | Country/Territory HQ | Type I | Type II | Type III |
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'Fray Bartolome de las Casas' Center for Human Rights |
1989 | Chiapas | Mexico | N | Human Rights Organizations | ||
'Fray Francisco de Vitoria' Center for Human Rights |
1984 | Mexico City | Mexico | N | Human Rights Organizations | ||
3D - Trade - Human Rights - Equitable Economy |
2003 | Geneva | Switzerland | G | Human Rights Organizations | ||
50 Years Is Enough - US Network for Global Economic Justice |
Washington DC | USA | G | ||||
A Woman's Voice International |
Honolulu HI | USA | G | ||||
ABANTU for Development |
1991 | Accra | Ghana | E | |||
Academic Council on the United Nations System |
ACUNS | 1987 | Coventry | UK | E | y | United Nations Bodies, International Federations |
Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences |
ACJS | 1963 | Greenbelt MD | USA | G | ||
Academy of European Law, Florence |
1990 | Florence | Italy | K | Human Rights Organizations | ||
Access Now |
2009 | New York NY | USA | C | |||
ACER-Russie |
1961 | Paris | France | G | Humanitarian Organizations | ||
Act for Peace |
1948 | Sydney | Australia | G | |||
Acting for Women in Distressing Circumstances |
1996 | Phnom Penh | Cambodia | G | |||
Action Against Hunger |
1979 | Paris | France | F | Humanitarian Organizations | ||
Action d'appui pour la protection des droits des minorités en Afrique centrale |
AAPDMAC | Cyangugu | Rwanda | G | Human Rights Organizations | ||
Action for Solidarity, Equality, Environment and Diversity |
A SEED | 1992 | Amsterdam | Netherlands | F | ||
Action for World Solidarity |
1957 | Berlin | Germany | G | v | Human Rights Organizations | |
ActionAid |
1972 | Johannesburg | South Africa | F | f | Human Rights Organizations, Humanitarian Organizations | |
ADD International |
Frome | UK | G | Human Rights Organizations | |||
Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights |
Protocol of San Salvador | 1988 | Washington DC | USA | T | g | Treaties, Human Rights Organizations, IGOs |
Additional Protocol to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with Regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine, on the Prohibition of Cloning Human Beings |
1998 | Strasbourg | France | T | g | Treaties, Human Rights Organizations, IGOs | |
Additional Protocol to the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine concerning Genetic Testing for Health Purposes |
2008 | T | g | Treaties, Human Rights Organizations, IGOs | |||
Additional Protocol to the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine Concerning Transplantation of Organs and Tissues of Human Origin |
2002 | Strasbourg | France | T | g | Treaties, Human Rights Organizations, IGOs | |
Additional Protocol to the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine, Concerning Biomedical Research |
2005 | Strasbourg | France | T | g | Treaties, Human Rights Organizations, IGOs | |
Additional Protocol to the European Charter of Local Self-Government on the right to participate in the affairs of a local authority |
2009 | T | g | Treaties, Human Rights Organizations, IGOs | |||
ADF International |
Brussels | Belgium | F | ||||
Advancing Girls' Education in Africa |
AGE Africa | 2005 | Washington DC | USA | G | ||
Advice on Individual Rights in Europe Centre |
AIRE Centre | 1993 | London | UK | G | Human Rights Organizations | |
Advocaten Zonder Grenzen |
1992 | Brussels | Belgium | F | v | Human Rights Organizations | |
Advocates for Human Rights |
1983 | Minneapolis MN | USA | G | Human Rights Organizations | ||
Advocates International |
1991 | Alexandria VA | USA | G | Human Rights Organizations | ||
AEIDL - European Association for Information on Local Development |
1988 | Brussels | Belgium | E | v | Human Rights Organizations | |
Aflatoun International |
2005 | Amsterdam | Netherlands | C | |||
Africa Action |
2001 | Washington DC | USA | G | |||
Africa Alliance of Young Men's Christian Associations |
1977 | Nairobi | Kenya | E | |||
Africa Civil Society for the Information Society |
ACSIS | 2003 | Dakar | Senegal | D | ||
Africa Culture Internationale Human Rights |
ACI Human Rights | 1996 | Toubacouta | Senegal | G | Human Rights Organizations | |
Africa Faith and Justice Network |
AFJN | 1983 | Washington DC | USA | G | ||
Africa Free Media Foundation |
1993 | Nairobi | Kenya | F | f | Human Rights Organizations, Foundations | |
Africa Freedom of Information Centre |
AFIC | 2006 | Kampala | Uganda | F | y | International Federations |
Africa Legal Aid |
AFLA | 1995 | The Hague | Netherlands | F | Human Rights Organizations | |
Africa Network for Animal Welfare |
ANAW | Nairobi | Kenya | F | |||
Africa Unite |
AU | 2001 | Cape Town | South Africa | G | ||
Africa-Europe Faith and Justice Network |
AEFJN | 1988 | Brussels | Belgium | F | y | International Federations |
African Alliance for Women Empowerment |
AFRAWE | Cairo | Egypt | N | |||
African Assembly for the Defense of Human Rights |
1990 | Dakar | Senegal | G | Human Rights Organizations | ||
African Association for the Defense of Human Rights |
1991 | Kinshasa | Congo DR | G | Human Rights Organizations | ||
African Association of Women in Geosciences |
AAWG | 1995 | El Jadida | Morocco | D | y | International Federations |
African Centre for Advocacy and Human Development |
ACAHD | 2002 | Lagos | Nigeria | G | Humanitarian Organizations | |
African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies |
ACDHRS | 1989 | Serrekunda | Gambia | E | Human Rights Organizations |