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 |
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Victim Support Europe |
VSE | 1989 | Brussels | Belgium | D | |
Vienna NGO Committee on the Status of Women |
1982 | E | y | |||
Vier Pfoten International |
Vienna | Austria | F | |||
Village Monde |
2010 | Québec QC | Canada | G | ||
Virtual Educa |
2000 | Alcala de Henares | Spain | F | ||
Vision Aid Overseas |
VAO | 1985 | Crawley | UK | G | |
Vision GRAM-International |
1996 | Ottawa ON | Canada | G | ||
Vital Voices Global Partnership |
VVGP | 2001 | Washington DC | USA | G | |
VIVAT International |
2000 | New York NY | USA | E | ||
Voice and Speech Trainers Association |
VASTA | 1986 | Kingston WA | USA | G | v |
Voices Without Frontiers |
VWF | 1996 | Montréal QC | Canada | E | |
Volontariato Internazionale Donna Educazione Sviluppo |
VIDES | 1987 | Rome | Italy | F | |
Volontariato Internazionale per lo Sviluppo |
VIS | 1986 | Rome | Italy | G | |
Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity International |
VOSH/International | 1972 | Omaha NE | USA | G | |
Walk Free Foundation |
WFF | Nedlands WA | Australia | G | f | |
Walk21 Foundation |
Walk21 | 2000 | Cheltenham | UK | F | f |
WAO-Afrique |
1989 | Lomé | Togo | E | ||
War Child International |
1993 | Amsterdam | Netherlands | F | ||
War on Want |
1952 | London | UK | G | f | |
WASH United |
2010 | Berlin | Germany | G | ||
Washington Office on Latin America |
WOLA | 1974 | Washington DC | USA | G | |
Wassu-UAB Foundation |
1987 | Bellaterra | Spain | G | f | |
Waste Free Waters |
2011 | Klimmen | Netherlands | G | ||
Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict |
Watchlist | 2001 | New York NY | USA | G | |
Water Europe |
WE | 2004 | Brussels | Belgium | E | y |
WaterAid |
1981 | London | UK | F | ||
WATU Acción Indigena |
1993 | Madrid | Spain | N | ||
WE CAN |
Brussels | Belgium | N | |||
WE Charity |
1995 | Toronto ON | Canada | F | ||
We Effect |
1968 | Stockholm | Sweden | G | ||
We Move Europe |
WeMove.EU | Berlin | Germany | F | ||
Weavers Committee |
1989 | Suva | Fiji | E | y | |
WEC International |
WEC | 1913 | Coventry | UK | F | v |
WEConnect International |
Washington DC | USA | G | |||
WeForest |
2008 | Brussels | Belgium | F | ||
Weltfriedensdienst |
WFD | 1959 | Berlin | Germany | G | |
WePROTECT Global Alliance |
2012 | Lisse | Netherlands | B | ||
West Africa Centre for Peace Foundation |
WACPF | 2008 | Accra | Ghana | G | f |
West Africa Network for Peacebuilding |
WANEP | 1998 | Accra | Ghana | F | y |
West African Human Rights Defenders' Network |
WAHRDN | 2005 | Lomé | Togo | D | |
West African Women's Association |
WAWA | 1984 | Dakar | Senegal | E | |
West and Central Africa Human Rights Training Institute |
WACAHRI | 2004 | E | j | ||
WFTO-Europe |
Brussels | Belgium | D | |||
Whirly-Girls - International Women Helicopter Pilots |
1955 | Pinehurst NC | USA | N | v | |
WHO Global Network for Age-friendly Cities and Communities |
GNAFCC | 2010 | Geneva | Switzerland | F | y |
WIDE+ |
1985 | Brussels | Belgium | F | y | |
Widows Rights International |
WRI | 1996 | G | |||
Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation |
WISE | 2006 | Hull | UK | N | j |
Wildlife Justice Commission |
WJC | 2015 | The Hague | Netherlands | C | |
Winrock International |
1985 | Little Rock AR | USA | G |