Women's Organizations
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
The 2000 focus is the need to protect the human rights of incarcerated women in America and worldwide.
Address: Women's Project; 322 8th Avenue; New York, NY 10001.
Website: www.amnesty.org
EQUALITY NOW
Awaken is an Equality Now magazine that documents the movement to eradicate female genital mutilation worldwide.
Address: 250 W. 57th St., No. 826, New York, NY 10107
Call: 212-586-0906
Fax: 212-586-1611
Website: www.equalitynow.org
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
Receive detailed information on how to protect women refugees, stop the international trafficking of women, and to monitor and stop the human rights abuses of women in more than 70 countries.
Address: 380 5th Avenue; New York, NY 10118
Call: 212-290-7000
Fax: 212-736-1300
Website: www.hrw.org
FEMINIST MAJORITY FOUNDATION
Provides public education along with political lobbying regarding international women's issues such as the restrictive Taliban regime in Afghanistan.
Address: 1600 Wilson Blvd., Suite 801, Arlington, CA 22209
Call: 703-522-2214
Website: www.feminist.org
COMMAND POSTS
A focus on Military Fiction, Non-fiction and History
Author's Den
Saudi Embassy
Royalty in Saudi Arabia
Israeli Embassy
A U.N. Plan for Israel
Search "Middle East" to see posts tagged on the subject
Princess Sultana's Circle
Windsor-Brooke Books
PBS - Hunting Bin Laden
United States Army - War Info, Pictures etc.
Eye On Books
Nujood Ali: a divorcee at 10 years-old and advocate against child marriage in Yemen.
Read the article written about her on Glamour.com from 2008, or look for her autobiography, co-written by her lawyer Shada Nasser.
Isobel Coleman: Author Website (Paradise Beneath Her Feet: How Women are Transforming the Middle East)
Robin Wright journalist, author, and foreign policy analyst (Rock the Casbah, The Iran Primer, Dreams and Shadows, etc.)
Azar Nafisi (Reading Lolita in Tehran)
AlJazeera Opinion Articles
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