Human Rights: Topic Ideas

International IDEA is committed to ensuring that gender equality is attained in democracy building. Includes (legislative) Gender Quotas Database and Interactive Overview of Combinations of Electoral Systems & Quota Types tool.

A World Bank Group project collecting data on the laws and regulations that affect women’s economic opportunity.

The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association. Resources section includes: State-Sponsored Homophobia report, Maps – sexual orientation laws in the world, Trans Legal Mapping Report - Recognition before the law

Country profiles from Human Rights Watch with links to anti-LGBTQ laws and Human Rights Watch reporting.

Compiled by Rangita de Silva-de Alwis, SJD, the Senior Advisor on International Programs at the Wellesley Centers for Women, who has conducted research and has provided technical assistance to global partners on gender equality laws and domestic violence laws from around the world.

UN Women is the United Nations entity dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women. UN Women supports UN Member States as they set global standards for achieving gender equality, and works with governments and civil society to design laws, policies, programmes and services needed to ensure that the standards are effectively implemented and truly benefit women and girls worldwide. Progress of the World’s Women is UN Women's flagship annual report. Includes regional fact sheets and data. Annex 5 covers Laws and legal frameworks.

Country profiles covering status of/participation in international human rights treaties and bodies.

Wikigender, sponsored by the OECD, is an online platform to find and exchange information related to gender equality. Includes data and statistics, country information, topical info, etc.

The Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) is a global, feminist, membership, movement-support organization working to achieve gender justice and women’s human rights worldwide.

iKNOW Politics is a joint project of International IDEA, the Inter-parliamentary Union (IPU), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) to implement a joint strategy to boosts each of the organization’s efforts to foster gender equality in politics.

The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) is a global research institute with offices located in Washington, D.C.; New Delhi, India; Nairobi, Kenya; and Kampala, Uganda. Our research evidence identifies women’s contributions as well as the obstacles that prevent them from being economically strong and able to fully participate in society.

A global women’s advocacy organization for a just world that promotes and protects human rights, gender equality, and the integrity of the environment.