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What should my role be in improving Third World women's health?

• Political Action

  http://www.feminist.org/action/1_action.html
  Take action on feminist issues from the Feminist Majority Foundation

  http://www.aviva.org/action.htm
  Take action on International issues with Aviva

  http://www.idealist.org/
  Browse for upcoming action events, in the US and worldwide

  http://congress.nw.dc.us/mandcmp/
  Guide to Washington Lobbying on the Net

  http://www.specialweb.com/aids/
  Put a Red Ribbon on you web page to show your support for preventing the spread of HIV

  http://www.usasnet.org/
  Join United Students Against Sweatshops, affliated with the Worker Rights Consortium

  http://www.feminist.org/other/sweatshops/sweatshops.html
  Feminists Against Sweatshops

  http://www.dol.gov/dol/esa/public/nosweat/nosweat.htm
  Print out anti-sweatshop brochures and posters from this Department of Labor "No Sweat" site

• Jobs (paid)

  http://www.unaids.org/about/jobs/index.html
  Jobs with UNAIDS -- Work at the headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, or travel into the field.

  http://www.idealist.org/
  Find jobs (nonprofit, consulting, internships)

  http://www.comminit.com/vacancies.html
  International jobs in health promotion and health communication

  http://www.matrix.msu.edu/jobs/
  H-Net's job guide for the Humanities and Social Sciences

  
  

• Jobs (volunteer)

  http://www.idealist.org/
  Search for volunteer opportunities and internships by area of focus, location, or skills needed.

  http://www.interaction.org/
  InterAction: American Council for Voluntary International Action

  http://www.midwife.org/dgo/opportunities.cfm
  Internship and Volunteer Opportunities in International Health

  http://www.peacecorps.gov/volunteer/
  The Peace Corps

  http://www.foodfirst.org/pubs/books/
  Order and read Alternatives to the Peace Corps: A Directory of Third World and U.S. Volunteer Opportunities, 8th ed. Edited by Filomena Geise, with Marilyn Borchardt and Martha Fernandez

  http://www.care.org/about/faqs.html
  Volunteer for CARE, one of the world's largest private international relief and development organizations. CARE has U.S. offices in many major cities.

  http://library.umassmed.edu/ihoc/
  International Healthcare Opportunities Clearinghouse. List of service organizations, including many that do not have webpages.

• Education

  http://www.foodfirst.org/pubs/books/
  Order and read Education for Action: Undergraduate and Graduate Programs that Focus on Social Change, 3rd ed. Edited by Sean Brooks and Alison Knowles

  http://www.asph.org/
  Graduate studies in International health

• Organizations

  http://www.idealist.org/travel.html
  List of Organizations Promoting Global Volunteering

  http://www.euronet.nl/~fullmoon/womlist/womlist.html
  Global List of Women's Organisations, including contact information

• Funding Opportunities

  http://www.rockfound.org
  The Rockefeller Foundation funds African education for American and Canadian dissertation writers

  http://library.umassmed.edu/ihoc/funding.html
  Ideas for trip fundraising, and a short list of potential funding agencies.

• Listservs

  NAD Regional News: a newsletter that covers current Arab issues and press news on development and gender
  To subscribe subscribe-regional-news@nadnet.org
  For info on NAD write to secretariat@nadnet.org

• Resources

  http://www.iwhc.org/
  International Women's Health Coalition

  http://www.africapolicy.org/
  Learn about policies that affect Africa

  http://www.state.gov/www/global/women/index.html
  Read about the US government's repsonses to International Women's Issues, such as the Beijing Platform for Women's Rights and Trafficking in Women

  http://www.ldb.org/iphw/index.htm
  International Public Health Watch

  http://www.libs.uga.edu/vaw
  A large database of United States and International Violence Against Women websites, organizations, reports, books, multimedia resources, definitions, and more.

  http://www.iupui.edu/~aaws
  Association of African Women Scholars (AAWS): Information about websites on women, Africa, health & human rights, research & teaching.

Last Modified: 11/9/2001                          Contact: Dawn Haney haneydaw@arches.uga.edu