The document discusses several international organizations that work to promote gender equality and women's empowerment globally. It outlines the key focus areas and goals of organizations like UN Women, Association for Women's Rights in Development, Womankind Worldwide, Center for Reproductive Rights, Plan International, and Women for Women International. Collectively, these organizations advocate for women's rights, promote women's participation in governance, and support local women's groups and movements worldwide.

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2. • 1. UN Women
• The United Nations Entity forGender Equality and the Empowerment of
Women (UN Women) is the UN agency dedicated to gender equality.
• The agency was established to accelerate progress on meeting women’s
needs across the world.
• It supports the UN members states in achieving global standards of gender
equality, and it works closely with civil society organizations and
governments to design and implement policies, laws and services that
benefit women.

3. • The UN women focuses on four priority areas:
• 1)Women lead, participate in and benefit equally from governance
systems;
• 2)Women have income security, decent work and economic autonomy;
• 3) All women and girls live a life free from all forms of violence;
• 4)Women and girls contribute to and have greater influence in building
sustainable peace and resilience, and benefit equally from the prevention of
natural disasters and conflicts and humanitarian action.
• The UNWomen also closely works on positioning gender equality as
fundamental to the UN sustainable development goals and assists the
members states to hold the UN system accountable for its own
commitments on gender equality.

4. • 2. Association forWomen’s Rights in Development
• The Association forWomen’s Rights in Development (AWID) is an
international organization working to achieve gender equality and women’s
human rights across the word.
• The vision of AWID is “a world where feminist realities flourish, where
resources and power are shared in ways that enable everyone, and future
generations, to thrive and realize their full potential with dignity, love and
respect, and where Earth nurtures life in all its diversity”.
• The organization supports the gender justice movements to become driving
forces in oppression.

5. • 3. Womankind Worldwide
• WomankindWorldwide is an international organization for women’s rights
that works in solidarity and equal partnership with women’s rights
organizations and movements with a goal to transform the lives of women.
• The vision of the organization is a just world where the rights of all women
are respected, realized and valued.
• Currently, the WomankindWorldwide works with women’s rights
organizations and movements in Ethiopia, Kenya, Nepal, Uganda and
Zimbabwe, advocating for international agencies and governments to
promote and protects women’s rights.

6. • 4. Center for Reproductive Rights
• The Center for Reproductive Rights was established in 1992 with a goal to
use the power of law to advance reproductive rights as fundamental human
rights around the world.
• The organization envisions the world in which every person participates as
an equal member of society, regardless of their gender, has access to quality
reproductive healthcare and where any woman can take her own decisions
free from discrimination and coercion.

7. • 5. Plan International
• Plan International is a global development human rights and humanitarian
organization working to advance rights of children and equality for girls.
• It closely works with young people, children and communities to tackle the
root causes of discrimination against girls, vulnerability and exclusion and
enables them to respond and prepare for adversity and practice.
• Plan International influence policies and practices at local, national and
global levels by using knowledge, experience and reach.

8. • 6. Women forWomen International
• Women forWomen International is an international women’s rights
organization that supports the most marginalized women in countries
affected by war and conflict.
• The organization conducts projects that enable women to earn and save
money, influence decisions in their communities and homes, improve their
well-being and health and connect to networks for support.
• So far, the organization has helped to more than 478.000 women across the
world to rebuild their lives after the war. Women forWomen International
uses its voice to call for global attention to the unique role that women play
in advancing peace throughout society.