Resources
Global Organizations
Madre (http://www.madre.org/index.php?video=1): An international women's human rights organization that partners with women to improve the lives of women around the globe. Target areas are women's health, combatting violence against women, economic and social justice and peace building.
Human Rights Watch (http://www.hrw.org/): An independent organization that focuses attention on human rights vioalations around the globe and advocates for justice on behalf of the oppressed.
Amnesty International (http://www.amnesty.org/): An international human rights organization that conducts research and generates action about human rights abuses around the world.
Global Exchange (http://www.globalexchange.org/): An organization that builds people-to-people ties between first and third world nations.
United for Human Rights (http://www.humanrights.com/#/home): This organization works to implement the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on local, regional, national and international levels.
Human Rights Campaign (http://www.hrc.org/): The Human Rights Campaign is America’s largest civil rights organization working to achieve lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality.
Witness (http://www.witness.org/): This organization uses video and online technologies to open the eyes of the world to human rights violations.
Humanity In Action (http://www.humanityinaction.org/): Engages student leaders in North America and Europe to study and work for human rights.
Student World Assembly (http://www.studentworldassembly.org/SWAHome/Default.aspx): Connects students internationally to discuss pertinent issues regarding human rights online and in international conventions.
Global Literacy Project (http://www.glpinc.org/index.htm): A New Jersey based organization that collects books and delivers them to impoverished areas to increase literacy worldwide.
Women for Women (http://www.womenforwomen.org/): Changing the world one woman at a time; this non-profit will pair you up with a woman who has survived war and other conflicts within her country. Your donations will assist her in acquiring the skills needed to build a better life for herself, her family and her community.
Central Asia Institute (https://www.ikat.org/) : The inspirational Greg Mortenson believes that peace is built one school at a time and to make educating girls a priority. He has been building schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan since the 90s.
The Girl Effect (http://www.girleffect.org/): An individual or company can donate to this organization and give a girl in a third world country an education, a microloan or help fight a legal case.
GEMS (http://www.gems-girls.org/): Local New York organization that helps girls aged 12-21 who have been trafficked or victims of sexual exploitation.
Books
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
This book will make you want to jump on a plane and build a school in Pakistan right now. Truly inspirational story that shows us how an average person can change the world and how important it is to educate girls.
Global Woman: Nannies, Maids and Sex Workers in the New Economy by Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russel Hochschild
Addresses the way globalization is causing a migration of women from the third world to the first, its causes and ramifications.
Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity by Chandra Talpade Mohanty
A classic critique of western feminism that advocates for a more just international feminist movement.
Infidel By Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Ali's anti-Islamic views are controversial but her life from leaving her family behind in Somalia to escape an arranged marriage to the development of her human rights activism in Holland and the United States is eye-opening and awe-inspiring.
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
This memoir by professor Nafisi follows the individual stories of a group of seven young, university women in Tehran as they use banned literature to help shape and change the narrative of their lives.
Dislocating Cultures: Identities, Traditions, and Third World Feminism (Thinking Gender) by by Uma Naravan
Disucsses the problems of transnational feminist movements.
Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty by Muhammad Yunus
Yunus' story about giving loans to the poor with reasonable interest rates as one of the easiest ways to combat poverty around the globe.
Globalizing Women: Transnational Feminist Networks (Themes in Global Social Change) by Valentine M. Moghadam
A book that explores the benefits and dangers of transnational social movements and international feminism in particular.
Globalization and Militarism: Feminists Make the Link by Cynthia Enloe
Rethinking our rhetoric about national security and masculinity.
Gender, Development and Globalization: Economics as if All People Mattered by Lourdes Beneria
Feminist analysis of economics and development worldwide.
Women Across Cultures: A Global Perspective by Shawn Meghan Burn
A comprehensive look at the situation of women worldwide and the various ways women's issues are being tackled locally and globally.
Globalization, Gender, and Religion: The Politics of Women's Rights in Catholic and Muslim Contexts by Jane Bayes and Nayereh Tohidi
Compiled by Francesca Casamento