International links

African American Environmentalist Association
Environmental organisation dedicated to protecting the environment, promoting efficient use of natural resources and increasing African American participation in the environment movement.

California Women's Environmental Network
The primary function of the organization is to provide education and networking for professional women in the environmental field in the Bay Area, as well as to produce a regular newsletter. WEN's 1,200+ community members use each other as resources for information and learning about environmental fields, best practices, and career development. Just as the definition of the word 'environmental' is fairly broad, the WEN membership reflects a wide range of interests and professions.

Centre for Advancement of Women - Iran
Golshahr Villa, W. Khayyam Ave. #105 Karaj, Iran T: 98-261-350-4147 shireen@cawiran.org
The centre seeks to empower the rural women of northern Iran by providing legal, health and education services.

Canadian Auto Workers (CAW)
T: 00-416 -495 6558 caw@caw.ca
The CAW is the largest private sector union in Canada. Launched a major Prevent Cancer Campaign in 1997. Camapigns fo workers to have the right to choose both economic security and a healthy environment for themselves, their families and future generations. Demand input into setting priorities, determining the degree of regulation over private industry, and deciding who pays for clean up and lifestyle changes.

The Centre for Health, Environment and Justice (CHEJ)
chej@chej.org
The Citizens Clearinghouse for Hazardous Waste (CCHW) was founded by the community activists to campaign against Love Canal. CHEJ believes in environmental justice, the principle that people have the right to a clean and healthy environment regardless of their race or economic standing. The Center believes the most effective way to win environmental justice is from the bottom up through community organising and empowerment.

The Climate Alliance
A partnership between 1,300 European cities and indigenous rainforest peoples. Member cities seek to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, notably from energy and transport use, abstain from
procuring tropical timber derived from destructive logging, and co-operate with the indigenous partners to conserve the rainforests. Climate for Change project looked at achieving gender balance in climate protection work.

European Institute of Women's Health
18 St. Andrews Street, Dublin 2, Ireland T: 00- 353-1-6766717 info@eurohealth.ie
The European Institute of Women's Health is a non-governmental organisation working for balance and equity in European health care. The EIWH wishes to make the health and well being of women a priority for the European Commission and Member States of the European Union. Undertakes research at a European level on women's health issues, lobbys politicians, MEP's, policy makers and those with an interest in women's health.

FIELD (Foundation for International Environmental Law & Development)
3 Endsleigh Street, London WC1H ODD, UK T: +44 (0) 20 7388-2117 field@field.org.uk
FIELD is a non-governmental organisation bringing together public international lawyers committed to the promotion of environmental protection and sustainable development through law.

FIRE - Feminist International Radio Endeavour

Freedom From Hunger
A nonprofit, nongovernmental, international development organization dedicated to ending chronic hunger and poverty through sustainable development.

Green Belt Movement
GBM provides income and sustenance to millions of people in Kenya through the planting of trees. It also conducts educational campaigns to raise awareness about women's rights, civic empowerment and the environment throughout Kenya and Africa.

Green Seniors
keith@greenseniors.org
Green Seniors is based on the belief that there are thousands of people in the world who care about the natural environment, have some time to spare, and want to do something to try and fix the problems that we have created.

Health Care Without Harm
1901 North Moore Street , Suite 509, Arlington, VA 22209 USA hcwh@chej.org
Aims to transform the health care industry so it is no longer a source of environmental harm by eliminating pollution in health care practices without compromising safety or care. Promotes comprehensive pollution prevention practices.

Information for Action
PO Box 1040, West Leederville, WA, 6901, Australia
T: +61 08 9382 8110 rowland@informaction.org
Information is a free lobbying service for anyone interested in the environment. Works to minimise the harmful effects of people on ecosystems by generating greater awareness and commitment to the support of environmental change. Promotes and facilitates direct and indirect action by providing resources and information from its database. Information seeks to transform capitalism from a growth-oriented system to a sustainable one.

Irish Women's Environmental Network
Carmichael Centre, North Brunswick Street, Dublin 7, Eire T: 00-353-1-873 2660

MAMA-86
22, Mykhailiivska Str, Kyiv, 252001 Ukraine T: +380 44 229 55 14 mama86@gluk.apc.org
Women's NGO raising awareness of environmental and health issues, through education, information gathering and dissemination. Promotes public participation in decision making, training, medical service and provides practical services such as an eco-telephone service.

Mandat International
Welcome Centre for Non-Governmental Organizations and Delegations. A non-profit, trilingual information portal for those interested in UN, NGO and international co-operation, including a calendar of international meetings, over 1000 useful links, an information platform, international conventions, several instructive guides, support for non-governmental representatives, information on skills exchange and volunteering, a voluntary fund and more.

National Toxics Network
biomap@oztoxics.org
NTN is a community based network with a common aim to reduce the chemical load on the environment and to promote environmentally responsible technologies and management systems. NTN collects, collates and distributes information for use by the community, individuals and legislators using a Computerised Geographic Information System (GIS) which provides a communication and information exchange. Aims to increase community awareness and access to information about toxics worldwide. NTN is the Australian Focal Point for the International POPs Elimination Network.

Natural Resources Defense Council
40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011 T: 00 1 212 727-2700 nrdcinfo@nrdc.org
NRDC uses law, science, and the support of more than 400,000 members in the USA to protect the planet's wildlife and wild places and to ensure a safe and healthy environment for all living things. Campaigns and informs on toxic chemicals and health, breastfeeding, green living and other environmental concerns.

New Internationalist Magazine
NI reports on issues of world poverty and inequality; focuses attention on the unjust relationship between the powerful and the powerless in both rich and poor nations and debates and campaigns for the radical changes necessary if the basic material and spiritual needs of all are to be met.

Pesticide Action Network, North America (PANNA)
PANNA has campaigned to replace pesticides with ecologically sound alternatives since 1982. Links over 100 affiliated health, consumer, labor, environment, progressive agriculture and public interest groups in Canada, Mexico and the U.S. with thousands of supporters worldwide to promote healthier, more effective pest management through research, policy development, education, media, demonstrations of alternatives and international advocacy campaigns.

Physicians for Social Responsibility
1875 Connecticut Ave, NW, Suite 1012, Washington, DC 20009
T: 00 1 202.667.4260 psrnatl@psr.org
PSR represents more than 20,000 physicians, nurses and health care professionals devoted to nuclear disarmament, violence prevention and environmental health.

Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition
760 N. First St, San Jose, CA 951122 T: 00 1 408 287 6707 svtc@igc.apc.org
A grassroots organisation consisting of environmental and neighbourhood groups, labor unions, public health leaders and people affected by toxic exposures and others. Encourages community participation by educating and empowering people to hold government and industry accountable. Uses Geographic Information System (GIS) mapping techniques to highlight pollution sources around Silicon Valley correlated with USA census data.

Survival International
Survival is a worldwide organisation supporting tribal peoples.

Voice of Irish Concern for the Environment
T: 00-353- (0) 1-6618123 avoice@iol.ie
VOICE is working to protect the Irish environment. Campaigns on issues such as safe, clean water, genetic engineering, chemical pollution of waterways, and forestry.

Windsor Occupational Health Information Service (WOHIS)
547 Victoria Avenue, Windsor Ontario, Canada T: 00-416-(519) 254-5157 wohis@mnsi.net
WOHIS is an occupational health & safety information / referral service located in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. WOHIS was founded in 1982 in response to the need for accessible information on biological, chemical, psychological and physical hazards in the workplace. The Windsor Cancer Prevention Coalition is a collection of concerned citizens from diverse backgrounds examining occupational and environmental links to cancer, organizing bone marrow registry sessions and playing an advocacy role around prevention of adult and childhood cancers.

Wise Woman Weekend
T: 071 913 4913 Email: info@wisewomanireland.com
A weekend of learning, discovery, celebration and fun for women of all ages. Workshops to feed the mind, body and spirit. There is a strong ethos of 'right relantionship' with the earth and self other.

Women in Europe for a Common Future
PO Box 12111, NL - 3501 AC Utrecht, Netherlands T: + 31 30 2310300 wecf@antenna.nl
An organisation which supports women and children in ecological disaster areas in their efforts to reduce pollution and improve their health.

Women's Environment & Development Organisation (WEDO)
3rd floor, 355 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10017 T: + 1 212 973 0325 wedo@wedo.org
Campaigning organisation looking at the effect on health by the environment. Also has an Action for Cancer Prevention Campaign. Produces newsletters, updates and information on women's health and the environment. Co-hosted with the Kingston Breast Cancer Conference Committee, the Worlds First Conference on Breast Cancer, in Canada 1997. Global Action Plan available.

Women's Network For Health and the Environment (WNH&E)
517 College St, Suite 233, Toronto, Ontario M6G 4A2
T: +1 416 928 0880 weed@web.net
Membership organisation that campaigns and provides briefing sheets and information on health and the environment. Focuses on links between women's health and environmental contaminants. Have produced a film called "EXPOSURE" Environmental links to Breast Cancer.

Women's Voices for the Earth (WVE)
P.O. Box 8743, Missoula, MT 59807, USA swan@wildrockies.org
Women's Voices for the Earth is a nonprofit, women-centered environmental justice organization.
Its mission is to empower women, who historically have had little power to affect environmental policy, to create an ecologically sustainable and socially just society. Campaigns on risky chemicals in cosmetics.

World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA)
PO Box 1200, 10850, Penang, Malaysia T: 604-658 4816 waba@streamyx.com
WABA is a global network of organisations and individuals who believe breastfeeding is the right of all children and mothers and who dedicate themselves to protect, promote and support this right. WABA acts on the Innocenti Declaration and works in liaison with UNICEF.

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