Global Resources for Women
Across the world, women writers face barriers to safety, visibility, and freedom of expression. This page brings together global organizations and initiatives that champion their voices — offering networks of support, opportunities for publication, advocacy for equal rights, and protection for those at risk. Explore these resources to connect with communities that defend women’s creativity, amplify their stories, and ensure their words are heard.
Organizations
womenforwomen.org
Everywhere in the world, women face social, cultural, and economic barriers to equality.
womenforwomen.org invests in women survivors of war and conflict, providing them with social and economic skills to transform their own lives. Women pass their knowledge to those around them, creating a more just world—a world where every woman’s voice, role, and contribution are visible and valued.
World Literacy Foundation
The World Literacy Foundation is a global non-profit organization striving to ensure that every child, regardless of geographic location, has the opportunity to acquire literacy skills and books to reach their full potential – succeeding at school and beyond.
Vital Voices
For more than 25 years, Vital Voices Global Partnership has been investing in women leaders solving the world’s greatest challenges. We are “venture catalysts,” identifying those with a bold vision for change and partnering with them to make that vision a reality. We scale and accelerate their impact through long-term investments to expand the skills, connections, capacity, and visibility of women leaders.
Waging Nonviolence
Waging Nonviolence is a nonprofit media organization dedicated to providing original reporting and expert analysis of social movements around the world. With a commitment to accuracy, transparency and editorial independence, we examine today’s most crucial issues by shining a light on those who are organizing for just and peaceful solutions.
Centro de Derechos de Mujeres
The CDM Women’s Rights Center is a feminist, autonomous, critical, proactive organization that fights for the strengthening of autonomy, the exercise and enjoyment of rights, citizenship, equality and gender justice for women.
The work for women’s human rights through a feminist proposal seeks to positively impact women’s lives, promote their autonomy and leadership for the construction of a society with social justice and gender equality. Among the many programs, enabling women to gain citizenship, an initiative to educate and support young women in light of the violence that affects urban and rural young women, they also have an Observatory Unit committed to contributing to producing and making available to a wide public, rigorous and transparent information on violence against women in the country, to highlight the high rates of impunity, the lack and the weak commitment of the responsible authorities to guarantee the right of women to a life free of violence.