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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
[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.
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 ]
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
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
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.
The campaign for "women's rights as human rights" was especially effective. [16] UNIFEM began working on projects to reduce gender-based violence and also to raise awareness of the problem. [17] Also in the 1990s, African Women in Crisis (AFWIC) was created by UNIFEM to focus on issues facing people in Africa. [18]
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.