Title: Women's Rights Network (WRN).

POPLINE Document Number: 142094

Author(s):

Slote K
Cuthbert C

Source citation:

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN, 1997 Feb;3(1):76-80.

Abstract:

The Massachusetts-based Women's Rights Network (WRN) was founded in 1995 in response to the need to develop collaborative, crosscultural, and international strategies to eliminate domestic violence. The WRN initiated meetings with local advocates to identify the most pressing issues facing the US battered women's movement and then began to contact advocates for battered women throughout the world. To date, the WRN offers a resource center documenting strategies used around the world to end domestic violence, gives workshops and presentations to increase public education and awareness about domestic violence, organizes international strategy sessions between women's advocates in Massachusetts and those in other countries, facilitates one-on-one partnerships between groups for battered women in Massachusetts and sister organizations in other countries, and participates in the annual "16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence." The WRN also plans to publish a biannual journal.

Keywords:

Global
Women's Groups
Program Activities
Information Networks
Human Rights
Women
Domestic Violence
Prevention and Control
Interest Groups
Political Factors
Programs
Organization and Administration
Communication
Demographic Factors
Population
Crime
Social Problems
Diseases