WMST 101: Links
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Below
are some links to web sites that you can consult to begin your research on the
international women's issue which you and your group are examining. Other sources that might prove useful
include: Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe;
InfoTrac; any WorldWide Web search engine, like Infoseek or Alta Vista; or WWW
meta-search engines, like Google. All of
these are available through McConnell Library's homepage.
Remember
that BOOKS are also an invaluable source of information. Consult the electronic catalog for titles on
your subject. EVALUATE all sources
rigorously before using them.
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International Women's Rights Issues and Activism
Global Reproductive Health
Forum
Women's Human Rights Network An extensive site containing information on such
international women's issues as: civil
& political rights; custodial abuse; economic, social & cultural
rights; education, equality & non-discrimination; environment; family;
freedom of association & assembly; health; human rights defenders; rights
of indigenous people; migrants; older women; poverty & the right to development;
racism & minority rights; refugees & the internally displaced; religion
& fundamentalism; reproductive rights; rights of girls; sexual rights;
sexual trafficking and sex tourism; violence against women; war & armed
conflict; women with disabilities; work & employment.
Female Genital Mutilation
Education and Networking Project
PREDA Reports on International Sexual
Crimes against Women and Children Homepage of People's
Recovery, Empowerment, and Development Assistance Foundation, a not-for-profit
organization in the Philippines working on a national and international
level for human rights, especially women's and children's rights. Has information on child pornography, child
abuse, international trafficking in children for sexual use, sex tourism and
mail order brides, and child prostitution.
Captive Daughters An activist web site
that provides information about the sex
trafficking of children and other issues.
Beiming +5 Report
on the Special Session of the General
Assembly entitled "Women: 2000: Gender Equality, Development and Peace for
the Twenty-First Century." It was held from 5-9 June 2000 at UN
Headquarters in
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
Policy statement on women's rights adopted by the United Nations General
Assembly on December 18, 1979. A summary
of the treaty is available by clicking here.
Women's Human Rights Resources A comprehensive site at the University of Toronto's Law School with links
to articles, documents, and websites on women's human rights issues including
such concerns as: education, feminist
theory, indigenous rights, labor and employment, marriage and family, race and
discrimination, prostitution, reproductive rights, sexual traffic in women, and
violence against women.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights Policy statement adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 10, 1948.
General
Sources on International Human Rights Abuses and Other International Issues
The National Security Archive An excellent archive
maintained in
Amnesty
International Homepage
Amnesty International's Pages on Violations
of Women's Human Rights throughout the World
Amnesty International, USA,
Campaign against Violence against Women and War
Broken Bodies, Tortured Minds Amnesty's report on torture of women internationally
National
Security Archives Declassified Documents Relating to U.S. Intervention in
Guatemala. An excellent source. Contains declassified State Department and CIA
documents related to the
National Security
Archives Guatemala Documentation Project Documents revealing
A Human Rights History of Guatemala.
Provides a brief overview of Guatemalan history from the stand point of
human rights; extends through pre-Columbian times, the conquest, and the
present with special emphasis on modern political repression and military
abuses especially of indigenous people; builds a case that the abuse of human
rights in
Report
of Bishop's Assassination Information
about the assassination in
1997
Human Rights Report: Guatemala U. S. State Department report on
the human rights situation in
Organizations in
Guatemala Hot links to numerous mass organizations in
Guatemala:
State of Impunity Amnesty
International examines the issue of granting broad amnesty and immunity
from prosecution to the military leaders responsible for the nearly 200,000
murders in
And Alicia Partnoy's Testimony about Disappearance and Torture
During the "Dirty War"
Argentina Human
Rights Information Maintained by Derechos Humanos: Human Rights;
provides comprehensive information about current human rights concerns;
contains numerous links to related sites; (available in Spanish and English
versions).
Argentina - Human Rights Maintained by Derechos Humanos: Human Rights;
provides links to useful historical information on events leading to the
military coup and successive juntas as well as human rights abuses in Argentina
during "La Guerra Sucia" (The Dirty War); links include information
on: military leaders accused of abduction, torture, and murder; the
"disappeared" and their families; the "Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo";
national and international human rights organizations' responses; the
presidential order of "impunity" for military personnel accused of
crimes; national and international responses to "impunity" issue.
The Disappeared in
Argentina Maintained by
several human rights groups to remember and pay homage to the disappeared from
Argentina and other countries; contains background information on "La
Guerra Sucia" and information about some of the most notorious military
leaders involved in abduction and torture; contains links to related sites on
the disappeared.
Homage to the
Disappeared in Argentina. A Virtual Memorial to some of the
disappeared, containing photographs and brief biographies.
The Vanished Gallery. The
most comprehensive web site available on "La Guerra Sucia" and events
leading to it, the disappeared, the military junta and those responsible for
the tortures, the secret detention centers, the modes of torture, testimonios
by survivors, confessions by torturers, etc. An Excellent Source of
Information.
Desaparecidos:
Bibliography. An excellent bibliography including topics such as:
"La Guerra Sucia," disappearances, psychology of torturers,
testimonios by survivors of torture, testimonio (confession) by torturer,
authoritarianism and nationalism in Argentina, the Mothers of the Plaza de
Mayo; hot-linked to Amazon.com. An Excellent Source.
More bibliography.
A continuation of the above bibliography. An Excellent Source.
Interpreting
Survivor Testimony: Excellent article by political scientist, Prof.
Karen Slawner, "Interpreting Victim Testimony: Survivor Discourse and the
Narration of History"; analyzes the ideological justifications for the
Dirty War and interprets survivor testimony as a foucauldian counter-memory or
counter-history that offers an alternative historical narrative to the one
offered by the government's and military's master narrative grounded in the
ideology of "national security." A Must Read Source.
"El Desaparecido" ("Disappearance"). Article by Argentine writer, Analia Penchaszadeh, about the psychological effects of "disappearances," their use as a terror tactic and means of social control; looks at the importance, though impossibility, of "speaking the unspeakable," and remembering those absent through disappearance; examines how remembering forces one to confront the horror of a loved one's torture and death; deals with the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo.
Asociación Madres de Plaza de Mayo Web
site maintained by the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo; explains their work;
contains photographs and links to other sites; (available in Spanish only).
Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo Web site maintained by the
Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, who have successfully located children
abducted by the junta or born in detention centers before their mothers were
murdered; explains their work; (available in Spanish and English versions).
Domestic Violence and Women's Activism
National
Coalition against Domestic Violence. Very useful site with
definitions of various kinds of battering and assaults, links to nation-wide,
state-by-state, and issues related statistics on all forms of domestic
violence.
American Institute on
Domestic Violence . Statistics on the impact of domestic violence
on the workplace and business.
Rape,
Abuse, and Incest National Network. Comprehensive web site including educational
materials, statistics and information on activism.
The
Rights and Activism of Intersexed Persons
Intersex
Society of North America Contains information about intersexed
persons. The society is an activist group that works to eliminate surgical
intervention before the intersexed person is ready to make an independent
decision about his or her body.
Homepage of African-American Intersex Activist, and Educator, Lynnell
Stephani Long A personal
perspective on the experience of being intersexed. Contains links to many other sites.
Ms. Magazine Excellent article on Intersex Genitalia Mutilation, the practice of surgically altering an infant girl's clitoris because doctors believe it is "too big.”
The United Kingdom Intersex Association (UKIA) Homepage of an education, advocacy, campaigning and support organization which works on behalf of intersexed people. Has excellent page of links to general information and activism.
International
Women's Labor Issues and Activism:
Sweatshops
National Labor Committee An excellent site containing links to pages with information on wages of clothing workers globally; has information on individual countries and companies that exploit laborers, as well as activist campaigns to stop exploitation of workers.
UNITE Homepage for the Union of Needle trades, Industrial and Textile
Employees' Stop Sweatshops Campaign.
Includes informational pages to define
sweatshops, explain various activist programs to stop sweatshop abuses, and
indicate socially responsible clothing manufacturers.
Sweatshop Watch Contains informational pages that define
unfair labor practices in sweatshops; offers articles on sweatshop conditions;
includes a link to practical information on "What Can I Do?"
Maquila Solidarity Network Very useful site. Contains information on campaigns being launched against specific multinational corporations such as the Gap, Nike, K-Mart, etc. Also includes information on how to organize in solidarity with these campaigns.
United Students Against Sweatshops Very useful site for students wishing to organize local college campus actions to protest the sale of sweatshop merchandise in campus bookstores. Their Frequently Asked Questions page answers some basic questions about sweatshops, their practices, and what's wrong with them. Site also provides information on Codes of Conduct that various campus groups are organizing to insist upon in any shops that make clothing bearing their university's name.
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