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About-Face
PO Box 77665
San Francisco, CA 94107
USA
Telephone: 415-436-0212
Website: http://www.about-face.org/
Description: A San Francisco-based non-profit group, about-face combats negative and distorted images of women in the media.

Blogher: Where the Women Bloggers Are
Website: http://blogher.org/
Description: The leading guide to women bloggers.

Blue Jean Online
PO Box 67111
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-0001
USA
Editor: Sherry S. Handel
Telephone: 1-877-FOR-BLUE
Email: editors[no.spam*]bluejeanonline.com
Website: http://www.bluejeanpublishing.com
Description: Blue Jean Online is the only web site written and produced by young women around the world. Young women ages 14-22 are encouraged to submit their writings, art work, photography, crafts and other works for publication consideration.

Celebration of Women Writers
c/o Mary Mark
130 W. Nippon St.
Philadelphia, PA 19119
USA
Editor: Mary Mark
Email: celebration@pobox.upenn.edu
Website: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/
Description: Writers Website for the celebration and promotion of women's writing. Provides access to available on-line biographical and bibliographical information about women writers. Also contains complete published books and online editions of older and rare, out of copyright works.

Center for International Media Action
1276 Bergen Street, #2
Brooklyn, NY 11213
USA
Website: www.mediaactioncenter.org
Email: cima[no.spam*]mediaactioncenter.org
Description: CIMA's team serves as consultants and collaborators on partner-initiated projects that match our social-change goals. We create original projects in response to demonstrated needs and opportunities to help strengthen the field of nonprofit media policy advocacy. We raise grant funds to pay for our original research, publications, events and website projects.

Chicago Women's Liberation Union Herstory Project
CWLU Herstory Project
PO Box 661
Oak Park, IL 60303
USA
Telephone: 708-386-7179
Website: http://www.cwluherstory.org
Description: The CWLU Herstory Website Project was organized in 1999 to archive and share the history of the Chicago Women's Liberation Union. The Herstory Project documents the role of the CWLU in the movenemnt for women's liberation and social justice of the late 1960s and 1970s.

CIMAC Comunicación e información de la mujer A.C.
Balderas 86 Col. Centro CP. 06050
Distrito Federal
México
Teléfono/fax: 55 1257 96
Email: cimac[no.spam*]laneta.apc.org
Contacto: Sara Lovera (coordinadora general)
Website: http://www.cimac.org.mx
Descripción: CIMAC es una red mexicana de información sobre la mujer. Dentro de su página web además de contener información al día; presenta diversos artículos relacionados a la mujer.
Description: CIMAC is a Mexican network for women. On its website you find not only information about current events but also articles on a wide range of topics related to women.

Creative Traces
1134 Charlotte Avenue
Rock Hill, SC  29732
USA
Telephone: 803-327-5088
Email: dottie[no.spam*]creativetraces.com
Contact: Dottie Moore
Website: http://www.creativetraces.com

Gifts of Speech
Email: melinton[no.spam*]nospam.sbc.edu.
Website: http://gos.sbc.edu
Dedicated to preserving and creating access to speeches by influential contemporary women from around the world.

GirlGeeks
Contact: peter[no.spam*]alltogethernow.com
Website: http://www.girlgeeks.org
Description: GirlGeeks is and online community for women and girls interested in technology and computing.

Habitación propia
Apartado 2121-2050
Costa Rica
Teléfono: 506-297 2575
Fax: 240-6430
Contacto: Gabriela Cob
Email: habitacionpropia[no.spam*]cosmovisiones.com
Website: http://www.cosmovisiones.com/habitacionpropia/
Descripción: Este sitio es realizado por quienes colaboran desinteresadamente para hacer posible un nuevo medio en manos de mujeres. Trabajamos con autonomía, buscando participación, liderazgo y empoderamiento de nosotras mismas, las mujeres.
Description: This site exists for those who wish to partipate in the creation of a new media that rests in women's hands.

Mujeres en Red
Website: http://www.mujeresenred.net
Coordinación: Montserrat Boix (http://montserratboix.nireblog.com) con la colaboración de Lola Pérez Carracedo.Descripción: Una de las redes más importantes de intercambio de información en español sobre derechos de las mujeres y empoderamiento. Mujeres en Red nació en 1997 y aglutina a más de 5.000 mujeres y grupos de mujeres de España, Europa y América Latina.
Description: One of the most importants Spanish-language websites for the exchange of information about women’s rights and women’s empowerment. It was born in 1997 and brings together more than 5,000 women and groups of women from Spain, Europe and Latin America.

Mujeres Hoy
Isis International
PO Box 1837
Quezon City Main
Quezon City 1100
Philippines
Contacto: Carmen Torres, Productora
Email: ctorres[no.spam*]isis.cl  o  amportugal[no.spam*]isis.cl
Website: http://www.mujereshoy.com
Descripción: MujeresHoy es un portal para las mujeres latinoamericanas en el cual es posible encontrar contenido que sirve para la información, la navegación de Internet y la interacción en nuestra sección de foros. En esta página ofrecemos una breve descripción sobre el sitio web y sobre las condiciones de uso del material. Provee información sobre temas que, en general, no son cubiertos por los medios tradicionales. Además, entrega datos para la navegación en Internet y herramientas de interacción. Este portal es una producción de Isis Internacional, organización no gubernamental que se dedica desde 1974 a promover la formación de redes y canales de información entre mujeres organizadas.
Description: MujeresHoy is a gateway for the Latin American women in how it is possible to find content that is used for the information, the navigation of Internet and the interaction in our section of forums. It provides information on subjects that, in general, are not covered by traditional means. In addition, it gives to data for navigation in Internet and tools of interaction. This vestibule is a production of Isis the International, nongovernmental organization who is dedicated from 1974 to promote the formation of networks and information channels between organized women.

SheSource.Org
Website: http://www.shesource.org
Description: SheSource.org is an online database of women experts on diverse topics for journalists. SheSource.org is designed to include spokeswomen from a variety of backgrounds, representing demographic and ethnic diversity as well as work in a variety of issue areas - particularly ones that are traditionally male-dominated.

Shetizenjournalist.com
Website: http://www.shetizenjournalist.com/index.htm
Email: editor[no.spam*]shetizenjournalist.com
Description: Shetizenjournalist.com is a tool for today's women to report and debate on issues that directly or indirectly affect them. It is a platform that highlights women's issues that are otherwise ignored by the mainstream media in most parts. It is a website by, for and of women and hence our reporters are all 'She'tizen Journalists.

Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press
1940 Calvert Street, NW
Washington, DC 20009-1502
USA
Phone: 202-265-6707
Email: mediademocracy[no.spam*]wifp.org
Website: http://www.wifp.org
Description: Media democracy issues, news, philosophy. Includes: online Directory of Women's Media; a history of women's media, 1963-1983; Spanish language women's media; women of color media, and more.

Women News Network—WNN
Telephone: 001-303.215-6079
Email: womennews2000[no.spam*]yahoo.com
Website: http://womennewsnetwork.net/
Description: Women News Network is dedicated to bringing you in-depth international women’s news not found in our current public media stream. The site includes feature articles available both for reading and for listening, podcasts, videos, and links to related sites.”

Women'sNet
31 Quinn Street
Newtown Johannesburg
South Africa
(PO Box 62577, Marshalltown, 2107)
Telephone: +27 11 429-0000
Email: women[no.spam*]womensnet.org.za
Website: www.womensnet.org.za
Description: Women’sNet works to advance gender equality and justice in South Africa through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) by providing training and facilitating content dissemination and creation that supports women, girls, and women’s and gender organisations and networks to take control of their own content and ICT use. Our website is a hub for information by women, about women and gender, and has a focus on South African and African content. We help women to find the people, issues, resources and tools they need for social activism.

WomenWatch
Email: womenwatch[no.spam*]un.org
Website: http://www.un.org/womenwatch
Description: WomenWatch is the central gateway to information and resources on the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women throughout the United Nations system.

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