Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women: excerpts. http://womeninworldhistory.com/WR-11.html
From Global to Local program: alternative reports from non-governmental groups in countries assessing the process toward implementing CEDAW. http://www.iwraw-ap.org/using_cedaw/writing_shadow.htm
Special Rapporteur: 1996 summary of types of violence. http://www.un.org/rights/dpi1772e.htm
Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency and Armed Conflict. http://www.hri.ca/uninfo/treaties/24.shtml
Claiming Our Rights: A Manual for Women's Human Rights Education in Muslim Societies: in Arabic, Azeri, Bangla, English, Farsi, French, Hindi, Malay, Persian, Russian, Urdu and Uzbek. http://www.comminit.com/materials/materials/materials-534.html
Women Living Under Muslim Laws: an international solidarity network. top site, http://www.wluml.org/english/index.shtml
Feminist Majority Foundation: global updates. http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=9093
Equality Now: domestic violence, reproductive rights, trafficking, and political participation.
http://www.equalitynow.org/english/index.html
Womens Human Rights net (WHRnet): http://www.whrnet.org/
Womens Human Rights Resources: http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/diana/whrr/index.cfm?sister=utl&CFID=979069&CFTOKEN=21618543
WWW reaching women.: way to find womens organizations aroung the world.
http://www.wwwomen.com/category/divers/cultur1.html
Global List of Womens Organizations. http://www.distel.ca/womlist/womlist.html
UNIFEM: Note updated news on actions around the world. http://www.unifem.org/gender_issues/human_rights/
Women, ink. See book Gains and Gaps in Worlds Women 2006. http://www.womenink.org/
Women Watch: Information and Resources on Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women. Top site. http://www.wwwomen.com/category/divers/cultur1.html
Human Rights Watch: Womens Property Rights: Violations Doom Equality and Development. case study to introduce issues property rights. http://hrw.org/campaigns/women/property/
World History Connected, Her Marriage Bondage - Primary Sources Explore Women's Marriage Rights, Special Women's History Issue (sometime in 2007).
Distinquished Women of Past: Human Rights http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/subject/hrights.html
Traditional Sayings & Inspiring Quotes. http://womeninworldhistory.com/WR-12.html
Code of Hammurabi, (c. 1780 BCE) http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/hamcode.html
Code of Assura Assyrians (c.1975 BCE) http://www.world-mysteries.com/awr_laws3.htm
Inheritance Law of and through Women in the Middle Assyrian Period:
http://www.chs.harvard.edu/activities_events.sec/conferences.ssp/conference_women_property.pg
Ischomachus's wife: The Economist by Xenophon (c. 430-355 BCE):
http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/lit/historical/TheEconomist/chap8.html
Womens Legal Status in Roman World: Find The Twelve Tables (excerpt): Gaius, on guardianship. Marriage Laws, Julian marriage laws (Emperor Augustus c. 18 BCE) http://www.stoa.org/diotima/anthology/wlgr/wlgr-romanlegal112.shtml
Justinian Code. (533 CE): selections that follow the first part code:
http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/maxpages/classes/his381/MarriageDigestCode.htm
A short lesson: filebox.vt.edu/users/rteague/PORT/byz-jcode.PDF
Ban Zhoa (c 48-120 BCE), China. http://home.infionline.net/~ddisse/banzhao.html
The Mother of Mencius, (c. 372 289 BCE), China; short text: http://www.humanistictexts.org/menmoth.htm
Indian History Sourcebook: Kautilya http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/india/kautilya2.html
Laws of Manu, (c. 500 BCE - 200 CE) India: compendium of ancient sacred laws and customs by the orthodox adherents of Brahminism. Lesson included. http://womeninworldhistory.com/WR-01.html
Greater Learning for Women (Japan, 1762) http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/kaibara.html
Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine: Peter of Blois letter to Chastise Her (1173): http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/eleanor.html
Magdeburg Law: (1261) Germany. http://womeninworldhistory.com/WR-02.html
Christine de Pizan, (1364-ca.1431) A Medieval Woman's Mirror of Honor, The Treasury of the city of Ladies, France.
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/hgarrett/documents/mirror.htm
Advice Books on mariage: William Gouge, Of Domesticall Duties (1622). http://www.elizabethi.org/us/essays/marriage.htm
Homily appointed to be read in Churches in time of Queen Elizabeth I http://dayspring.bizland.com/docs/homilies/Hom2-18.htm
Quotes from Mary Astell (1700), England: http://www.luminarium.org/eightlit/astell/astellquot.php
Mary Wollstonecraft debates Jean-Jacque Rousseau (1791) England. http://womeninworldhistory.com/WR-03.html
Womens Petition to the National Assembly 1789, France.
http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/searchfr.php?function=find&keyword=women%27s+petition+national+assembly&x=12&y=12
Olympe De Gouges, Declaration of the Rights of Woman, 1791. France.
http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/americanstudies/lavender/decwom2.html
French Civil Code: Napoleonic Codes: 1803. http://www.napoleon-series.org/research/government/c_code.html
Caroline Norton (1824 & 1855), England. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wnorton.htm
A Letter to the Queen on Lord Chancellor Cranworth's Marriage and Divorce Bill
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/norton/letter.html#Text
Married Womens Property Act. (1880), England. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wproperty.htm
Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions. (1848), U.S.A. http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/book-sum/seneca3.html
Ernestine Rose, Womens Rights Convention, (1851) U.S.A.
http://www.brandeis.edu/centers/wsrc/ Ernestine_Rose_Website/1851speech.html
John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women (1869), England. http://www.mdx.ac.uk/WWW/STUDY/xMil1869.htm
Maria Eugenia Echenique: The Emancipation of Women, (1876) Argentina
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/echenique.html
Meiji Civil Code of 1898 and Kishida Toshiko, (1863-1901) - Japan
http://womeninworldhistory.com/WR-04.html#Anchor-Kishida-47857
Qasim Amin The Liberation of Woman (1899), and Cronology of Major Events of womens rights, (1873 - 1994), Egpyt.
http://www.mediterraneas.org/print.php3?id_article=72
Malik Hefni Nassef (pen name Bahithat al-Badiyya), lecture (1909). Egypt. http://womeninworldhistory.com/WR-05.html
Alexandra Kollontai: Communism and the Family, (1920), Russia
http://www.marxists.org/archive/kollonta/1920/communism-family.htm
Marriage Law of 1950: China http://www.isop.ucla.edu/eas/restricted/marriage.htm
Li Kuei-ying (1960) China http://womeninworldhistory.com/WR-06.html