The following organizations are devoted to promoting women's leadership and increasing civic participation in Latin America and the Caribbean. A search through the web revealed these organizations, however, if you know of other similar institutions that have websites, please forward their web address to PROLEAD so they may be included in this list.
ARGENTINA
Madres de la Plaza de Mayo
Fundación Mujeres en Igualdad
Instituto Social y Político de la Mujer
Grupo de Mujeres Sin Moldes
CHILE
FEMPRESS: Women's Communication Network
BELIZE
The Belize Audobon Society
BRAZIL
Centro Feminista de Estudos e Assessoria (CFEMEA)
Instituto de Defesa do Direito de Defesa (IDDD)
COSTA RICA
Género y Desarrollo Rural
GUATEMALA
Organización Internacional para las Migraciones (OIM)
La Cuerda: Una mirada feminista a la realidad
MEXICO
Grupo de Educación Popular con Mujeres
Instituto de
Liderazo Simone de Beauvoir
Mujeres en Lucha por la Democracia
Laneta: Centro para Mujeres
PANAMA
Programa Promoción de Igualdad de Oportunidades en Panamá (PROIGUALDAD)
PERU
Flora Tristan: Centro de la Mujer Peruana
CENDOC Mujer.Centro de Documentación sobre la Mujer
REPUBLICA DOMINICANA
Centro de Estudios de Género del Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (CEG)
United Nations International Researchand Trainning Institute for the Advancements of Women, INSTRAW
URUGUAY
Comisión Nacional de mujeres uruguayas de seguimiento de los compromisos de Beijing
Cotidiano Mujer. Revista Feminista Uruguaya.
LOLAPress. Revisita feminista internacional.
UNITED STATES
UN Secretariat of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.
WomenWatch. Post-Beijing proposals and activities.
International Center for Research on Women
Inter-American Dialouge
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
The Glass Ceiling Commission (Cornell University).
Association for Women in Development
The World Bank
IADB/Ethics & Development
International Women's Democracy Center
Inter-Parliamentary Union
Women's Eyes. Fotography exhibition which gathers
67 images of women as seen by women.
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