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  2. List of women's organizations - Wikipedia

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    UNIFEM – United Nations Development Fund for Women (established 1976) UN Women – established 2010; United Methodist Women – founded in 1869; Woman's Christian Temperance Union – Anti-alcohol movement (founded 1874) Womankind Worldwide – supporting women in Africa, Asia and Latin America

  3. Pan-African Women's Organization - Wikipedia

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    [16] [23] All national women's organizations of the members of the Organisation of African Unity, until its demise in 2002, were members of the Pan-African Women's Organization. [ 19 ] [ 24 ] The Organisation of African Unity was founded in 1963 and from that date PAWO had observer status with the organization.

  4. Federation of South African Women - Wikipedia

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    In 1989, the United Women's Congress, The Federation of Transvaal, The Natal Organization of Women and the Port Elizabeth Women's organization revived FEDSAW. [33] Although a much smaller organization by this time, they continued to organize conferences and protests regarding women's issues, including sexual violence and homelessness. [ 34 ]

  5. List of women's clubs - Wikipedia

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    In 1922 the Federation of Women's Clubs, organized in 1890-1900, had 517 clubs with about 23,269 members, [8]: 88 not including any African-American women's clubs. Indiana State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, Indianapolis, NRHP-listed; The Propylaeum (John W. Schmidt House), Indianapolis, NRHP-listed

  6. Women's Institute - Wikipedia

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    The Women's Institute (WI) is a community-based organization for women in the United Kingdom, Canada, South Africa and New Zealand.The movement was founded in Stoney Creek, Ontario, Canada, by Erland and Janet Lee with Adelaide Hoodless being the first speaker in 1897.

  7. Africana womanism - Wikipedia

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    Africana womanism is a term coined in the late 1980s by Clenora Hudson-Weems, [1] intended as an ideology applicable to all women of African descent. It is grounded in African culture and Afrocentrism and focuses on the experiences, struggles, needs, and desires of Africana women of the African diaspora.

  8. List of Women's International Democratic Federation people

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    Shahnaz Alami , promoted WIDF's idea for International Women's Year to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in 1972. [21]: 63 Jamileh Sadighi (جمیله صدیقی, 1903-1983), elected to the WIDF Executive Council in 1953. [22] [23]: 75–77

  9. Graduate Women International - Wikipedia

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    Graduate Women International (GWI), originally named the International Federation of University Women (IFUW), is an international organisation for women university graduates. IFUW was founded in 1919 following the First World War by both British and North American college and university workers who were hoping to contribute to congenial ...