Association of women against men’s violence against women.
Address: via Tacito, 90 00196 Roma, Lazio
Mail: d.donna@differenzadonna.it
differenzadonna.org
The first national association in Italy networking institutional anti-violence support centres managed by women associations. The organisation deals with men’s violence against women. The network now counts more than 80 anti-violence centres.
Secretary: Elisabetta Calmanti
segreteria@direcontrolaviolenza.it
Tel. +39 392 720 0580
Press officer: Cristiana Scoppa
c.scoppa@direcontrolaviolenza.it
Tel. +39 339 148 8018
Fundraising:
Stefania Rossi
stefania.rossi@koinoe.it
Tel. +39 392 720 0580
Political and cultural women’s association focussing its action the genalogical relationship between women, in order to give value to female subjectivity and to affirm its freedom.
Address:via Lincoln, 121 – 90133 Palermo
Mail:bibliotecadonneudipalermo@gmail.com
bibliotecadelledonnecentrodiconsulenzalegale-udipalermo.it
Anti-violence support centre working to counter men’s violence against women and children. The organisation focuses on empowerment and freedom of women.
Address: Viale Campania, 25, 90144 Palermo PA
Mail: info@leonde.org
leonde.org
Lucha y Siesta is an hybrid project between a shelter, a semi-autonomous home and an anti-violence centre. The project was born from the struggle and self-organisation of women, which for more than 11 years have been providing information, guidance, listening and welcome to women who need it. Lucha y Siesta is also a space for socialising, sharing experiences and skills through a rich tapestry of cultural and workshop activities.
Secretary: segreterialys@gmail.com
Press office:luchaysiestanonsivende@gmail.com
luchaysiesta.wordpress.com
Physical space to welcome and host women victim of violence. The organisation offers also psycological services and career guidance, it is also engaged in communication and raising-awareness campaigns.
Address: via dell’Oro 3 40124 Bologna, Emilia-Romagna
Mail: infobologna@casadonne.it
casadonne.it
A social promotion association that looks without discrimination of any kind at the aspirations and needs of women of all ages, of all sexual orientations, with different histories and cultures, who live in Milan. It is engaged in promoting active citizenship among women, carrying out actions aimed at countering gender violence and promoting women’s skills in cooperation with their international network.
Address: via marsala 8/10 Milano, Lombardia
Mail: info@casadonnemilano.it
casadonnemilano.it
A place where single women and mothers, italians or migrants, dealing with violence or other kinds of issues can be hosted and supported in a new path of their lives.
Address: Strada Vaciglio Nord, 6 41124 Modena, Emilia-Romagna
Mail: most@donnecontroviolenza.it
donnecontroviolenza.it
Obiezione respinta works mainly for sexual and reproductive rights, mapping conscientious objectors throughout Italy and providing women with information on how abortion is addressed in every hospital. They are also engaged in providing information on contraception and access to healthcare.
Address: Vicolo dei Ruschi 56172, Pisa, Italy
Mail: d.donna@differenzadonna.it
obiezionerespinta.info
Association supporting latin-american women in different areas, helping them in the process of integration in the german society. They also put in place activities to counter violence against women.
Address: Winsstr. 58 10405 Berlin, Germany
Mail: mail@xochicuicatl.de
xochicuicatl.de
Karne Kunst works mainly with migrant artist women. They believe that communication and sharing ideas contributing to the discussion on gender equality are a crucial part to reach this equality.
Address: Roelckestraße 13086 Berlin, Germany
Mail:info@karnekunst.com
karnekunst.com
Union of feminist organisations with financial entity to support them; provide resources and transform them into charitable activities for women and girls
Address: Alte Königstraße 18, 22767 Hamburg, Germany
Mail: info@filia-frauenstiftung.de
filia-frauenstiftung.de
A network of doctors, medical students & health professionals, founded in 2019, as a reaction to the decrease of access and information to abortion in Germany. The network promotes intersectional feminist values and believes in autonomous choice in all areas of sexuality, reproduction and family planning. They offer information and education on abortion and sexual & reproductive health related aspects, but also training in all sexual and reprductive health related areas.
Address:Sigmaringer Str. 1
10713 Berlin, Germany
doctorsforchoice.de
NGO founded by women with a feminist and interdisciplinary perspective. They see feminism and a gender perspective as the transversal axes of all their actions. Their activity cover five lines of work: training and awareness, research and consulting, communication, cultural management and participation.
Address: Calle del Labrador, 20, 28005 Madrid, Spain
Mail: pandora@pandoramirabilia.net
pandoramirabilia.net
They focus mostly on empowerment of women, in particular of migrant women. They are active with training and workshops, also for what it concerns work orienteering. They offer couseling services in the psychological, socio-professional, law, and IT fields. They are also active in adovocacy for the right of women, in particular non-formal workers.
Address: C/ Villarroel 10, Barcelona
Mail: mujerespalantebcn@yahoo.es
mujerespalante.org
A non-profit organization aimed at promoting the participation and presence of women in social, cultural and economic life.
Address: Leonor Dávalos, 15. 41002 Sevilla
954 907 374 679 295 174 – 696 389 131
Mail: paginas.violeta@gmail.com
paginasvioleta.org
Foundation that promotes rights, participation and empowerment of women in Central America and in Spain.
Address: C/ Aragón, 424 – 08013, Barcelona
Mail: calala@calala.org
calala.org
Foundation that promotes rights, participation and empowerment of women in Central America and in Spain.
Address: C/Duque de Fernán Núñez, 2 – 28012, Madrid
Mail: calala@calala.org
calala.org
Foundation that promotes rights, participation and empowerment of women in Central America and in Spain.
Address: C/ Ronda, 7 – 48005, Bilbao
Mail: calala@calala.org
calala.org
Local foundation that contributes to the empowerment of women, the full exercise of women’s rights and the achievement of equity and sustainable human development
Address: Avinyo, 44 2on, 08002 Barcelona
Mail: info@cooperaccio.org
cooperaccio.org
They work from a gender perspective for positive and real change in people’s lives.
They are a feminist entity founded in 2001 in Barcelona. Their actions are aimed at pushing forwards the right to sexual health, to a life free of violence, a dignified life. And they accompany people to facilitate access to these rights through autonomy, awareness, prevention and political advocacy.
Address: Carrer del Carme, 16, principal
08001 – Barcelona
Mail: advocacy@creacionpositiva.org
creacionpositiva.org
Xarxa Feminista (the Feminist Network) is a space for political relations between women, lesbians, queer, trans and feminist groups. The Network was founded as a result of the Conference “20 years of feminism in Catalonia”, held in 1996, to create a space to co-influence between all feminisms and strengthen each other with the exchange of different experiences. Political relations between feminists is one of the characteristics of the Feminist Movement in Catalonia where all forms of struggle against the patriarchal system come together, to promote freedom and sustainability in all areas of life.
Address: Calle Ripoll, 25 08002 Barcelona
Mail: xarxafem@xarxafeminista.org
xarxafeminista.org
A non-governmental organisation working on SRHR. Focusing on promoting and facilitating the awareness, prevention and education of society in the field of sexual and reproductive health
Address: Calle la granja, 19 08024 Barcelona
Mail: coordinacio@lassociacio.org
lassociacio.org
The UNION OF WOMEN ASSOCIATIONS OF HERAKLION PREFECTURE (UWAH), is an NGO, established in 2000. It is an organization for women’s and children rights. It operates at Creta an 24/7 emergency telephone line, a Shelter for women victims of domestic violence, a Counselling Centre, and a Homeless Unit to provide an array of social services for people victims of economic crisis.
Address: Meramvelou 56, Heraklion – Crete
Mail: info@kakopoisi.gr
kakopoiisi.gr
The Centre for Research on Women’s Issues (CRWI) “Diotima” is a non-profit, non-governmental women’s organization. It was established at the end of the 80s through an initiative of a group of women from different academic backgrounds and aiming at systematically highlighting discriminations against women on all levels of social, political and economic life.
Address: 43A, 3rd September street, Athens, Attica 10433, GR
Mail: diotima@otenet.gr
diotima.org.gr
“Via Stop” is a Greek non-profit organization with the primary objective of combating any form of violence, and more specifically:
• Aims at providing assistance, psychological support and therapeutic approaches (to all individuals who are subjected to domestic violence)
• Becomes the connecting link as needed between victims and social, legal and welfare services, and provides strategies and specialized assistance targeted at the victim’s safe exit from the violent environment.
• Implements domestic violence perpetrator programs.
• Implements school outreach programs.
Address: Omonoias 117, Kavala Τ.Κ. 65403, Greece
Mail: info@viastop.gr
viastop.gr
The Research Centre for Gender Equality (KETHI), founded in 1994, is funded and supervised by the Ministry of the Interior. The fundamental objective of KETHI is to conduct social research on gender equality issues. Besides that, KETHI’s activities entail publication of studies and research, seminars to professionals, conferences, co-operation with NGOs and other agencies for gender mainstreaming.
KETHI operates Counseling Centers for women suffering from violence or/and multiple discriminations in Greece’s administrative regions capitals.
Address: 2, Pindarou str., Athens, 10671, Greece
Mail: kethi@kethi.gr
kethi.gr
Melissa Network is an organization for migrant and refugee women in Greece.
Founded in 2014 with grassroots-based participation, it counts members from over 45 countries.
It provides a platform for networking, capacity building and advocacy and runs an innovative integration program supporting refugee women and children.
Address:18 Feron Str. Victoria Square 104 34 Athens, Greece
Mail:info@melissanetwork.org
melissanetwork.org
Women On Top is an organization for the professional empowerment of women and for equality at the workplace. Using mentoring, lifelong learning, consulting and content creation as tools, we seek to support working and unemployed women and their environment so that together we can create a more equal future for all.
Address: Victoros Ougo 15. Athens, GR
Mail: info@womenontop.gr
womenontop.gr
Gender Alliance Initiative, an organization dealing with issues of gender, diversity and human rights.
Mail: ig.all.initiative@gmail.com
facebook.com/GenderAllianceInitiative
The General Secretariat for Demography and Family Policy and Gender Equality is the governmental agency competent to plan, implement, and monitor the implementation of policies on equality between women and men in all sectors.
GSGE operates a Pan-Hellenic Network of 62 Structures (40 Counseling Centers, 21 Shelters across the country and a 24-hour SOS Helpline 15900) providing free counseling services, safe accommodation and other services and facilities to female victims of gender-based violence.
Address: 8 Dragatsaniou str., 105 59 Athens, Greece
Mail: info@isotita.gr
isotita.gr
The Centre for Gender Studies is a research laboratory of the Department of Social Policy at Panteion University, established to cover teaching and research needs in the fields of gender in social policy and policy analysis of gender equality at the international, European, national and local level.
Address:136, Syggrou Ave., GR-17671 Athens
Mail: genderpanteion@gmail.com
genderstudies.panteion.gr/a>
Women solidarity network aiming to connect, empower and educate women. Their focus are intersectional feminism and solidarity. Their action is mostly educational, they organise workshops, and mutual learning sessions.
Mail: period.brussels@gmail.com
http://www.periodbrussels.eu/
Furia is an independent feminist think thank that focuses on equality, self-determination and solidarity. They are also an action group that strives for a solidarity-based and more equal society. Furia makes their voice heard in social debates with large and small activities.
Furia is a pluralistic and open women’s organization that links critical reflection to concrete action by thinking and doing. They strive for a solidary and inclusive society without inequality and discrimination and have an intersectional feminist approach.
Address: Middaglijnstraat 10 – 1210 Brussel Belgium
Mail: contact@solidaritefemmes.org
solidaritefemmes.org
A team of 7 lawyers, 2 psychologists, 1 social worker, 2 philologists – involved in the implementation of projects for protection and empowerment of women and girls.
Specialized in working with the Bulgarian legislation on violence against women and girls, and discrimination as well as in the use of the regional and international instruments for human rights protection such as the ECHR, CEDAW.
Address: Plovdiv 4000 – Bulgaria
Mail: office@genderalternatives.org
genderalternatives.org
SPAVO is a non governmental non profit organization.
It’s main aim is to offer help and support to people who face domestic violence and to uphold their rights.
The Association collaborates with governmental services (Police, Social Services, Legal Consultants, Hospitals, Schools,etc) in which there are sensitized people who contribute to SPAVO’s efforts to tackle the phenomenon of domestic violence systemically.
Address: Cyprus, NICOSIA, 2108, 53, AGLANTZIAS AVENUE
Mail: info@domviolence.org.cy
domviolence.org.cy
MIGS promotes and contributes to social, political and economic projects related to gender equality and women’s rights, with a focus on the Mediterranean region.
Address: 46 Makedonitissas Avenue, Box 24005, Nicosia 1703 –
Cyprus
Mail: info@medinstgenderstudies.org
medinstgenderstudies.org
A.L.E.G. is a nongovernmental organization active since 2004 in preventing and fighting violence against women and children and in promoting gender equality.
Mail:contact@aleg-romania.eu
aleg-romania.eu
CESI is a feminist organization that advocates for advancement of women in our society and realization of gender equality, and for full implementation of all laws and international mechanisms for the protection of human rights.
Address: Nova cesta 4 10 000 Zagreb
Mail:cesi@cesi.hr
cesi.hr
With its main project “Vox Feminae” it provides a space of gender and media culture acting as a platform of voices. They are engaged in mobility projects, video production and servises to increase the visbility and inflence of women.. Also, they are promoting active citizenship and educating youth by organising workshops about women’s rights, new media, citizen journalism, CMS systems, social networks, video production and other.
Address: Nova Cesta 24 10000 Zagreb – Croatia
Mail:info@voxfeminae.net
voxfeminae.net
The WAVE Network aims to promote and strengthen the human rights of women and children in general and to prevent violence against women and children in particular. It aims at establishing gender equality by eliminating all forms of violence against women. WAVE is the only European network focusing solely on the elimination of violence against women and children.
Address: Bacherplatz 10/6 1050 Vienna, Austria
Mail:office@wave-network.org
wave-network.org
Solidarité Femmes is a network in France that helps women and children who are victims of domestic violence. It also runs the free and anonymous 3919 helpline.
Mail:contact@solidaritefemmes.org
solidaritefemmes.org
NANE was established in 1994 with the aim to fight violence against women and children in Hungary. It is a non-profit, non-governmental organization.
NANE’s volunteers operate a toll-free nation-wide helpline for domestic and sexual violence victims and their supporters.
The Association also runs self-help groups and other services for survivors of domestic violence, offers youth prevention workshops, trainings for professionals and institutions, and publishes and translates books, brochures, information materials on the subject of intimate partner violence, emphasizing the systematic, societal and structural aspects of the problem. NANE organizes awareness-raising and advocacy campaigns, monitors state and law enforcement policies, and takes part in international projects as well.
Address: 1447 Budapest, PO Box. 502.
Mail:info@nane.hu
nane-hu
Grass root NGO funded in 2018 with experience in operation at the public, political and media level. Their primary but not singular focus is to change and to oppose the abortion legislation in Poland and promote equality rights and life of dignity for women in Poland.
Mail:lodzkiedziewuchy@gmail.com
lodzkiedziewuchy.org.pl
International Council of Polish Women was established in 2021. It is a living organization, in constant development. They have united across borders to represent and support Polish women abroad. They advocate for equality, women’s rights and social justice, and strongly support human rights in Poland and abroad. Work is underway to formulate specific goals, ethical principles, and a political manifesto based on innovative, modern, and feminist modes of action
Mail:polonijnaradakobiet@gmail.com
polonijnaradakobiet.org
Non – governmental organization working towards promotion of gender equality, fighting gender based violence and creating innovative social awareness raising campaigns.
Goals:
– Promote gender equality in Lithuania
– Ameliorate women position in public and private life
– Improve the environment of equal gender relations
Address: S.Konarskio str. 49, 808 office No. LT-03123, Vilnius, Lithuania
Mail:mic@lygus.lt
womensissuescentre.com
Level Up is a feminist organisation based in the UK. Their mission is to build a community of people who can work together to interrupt all forms of gender injustice. Their vision is a world where people of all genders are loved and liberated from the systems of oppression that lead to bodily and systemic violence.
Address: PO Box 75836 London, E2 2FP
Women’s Aid
Women’s Aid is the national charity for women and children working to end domestic abuse. Over the past 40 years Women’s Aid has been at the forefront of shaping and coordinating responses to domestic violence and abuse through practice. We empower survivors by keeping their voices at the heart of our work, listening and responding to their needs. We are a federation of over 220 organisations who provide more than 300 local lifesaving services to women and children across the country. We provide expert training, qualifications and consultancy to a range of agencies and professionals working with survivors or commissioning domestic abuse services, and award a National Quality Mark for services which meet our quality standards. Our campaigns achieve change in policy, practice and awareness, encouraging healthy relationships and helping to build a future where domestic abuse is no longer tolerated.
Address: PO BOX 3245 Bristol, BS2 2EH
Mail: helpline@womensaid.org.uk
womensaid.org.uk
The objective of Kvenréttindafélag Íslands is to work on women’s rights and the equal status of all genders in all areas of society. The association works on the basis of human rights and works against all kinds of discrimination.
To achieve this objective, the association aims to actively participate in public discourse and focus on equal fundamental rights in eductaion, society, policis and economics, with a clear feminist purpose and an expansive public relevance.
Address: Túngata 14, 101 Reykjavík, Iceland
Mail: postur@kvenrettindafelag.is
solidaritefemmes.org
The Centre for Gender Studies is a research laboratory of the Department of Social Policy at Panteion University, established to cover teaching and research needs in the fields of gender in social policy and policy analysis of gender equality at the international, European, national and local level.
Address: AMERIKIS 11,10672 Athens, Greece
Mail: xenathinon@xen-athinon.gr
xen.gr
EAVN’s activities include the design, implementation and evaluation of capacity building, training, educational and awareness raising activities as well as research activities aiming at primary, secondary and tertiary prevention of violence against women and girls (VAWG), intimate partner violence (IPV) and domestic violence (DV). More specifically, EAVN carries out its mission through activities such as: – Development of educational and awareness raising material (leaflets, books, etc), – Design, implementation and evaluation of: –information and awareness raising activities targeted to the general population –primary and secondary prevention interventions targeted to adolescents (e.g. at schools) -training seminars targeted to professionals of various disciplines (educators/teachers, health, mental health and social care professionals, police officers, lawyers, etc.) on gender equality, VAWG, IPV and DV – Development of methods and activities for the empowerment of women survivors of domestic violence – Design and conduct research – Network organisations whose activities are related to prevention and combating of domestic violence (develop synergies with organisations, other networks, etc.). EAVN operates also a specialized support service for abused women, aiming to provide holistic support on the basis of their needs, where they obtain information about their rights and how to claim them, assistance before-during-after civil or criminal proceedings, including psychological support as well as advice and support for legal, financial and practical issues; peer-support and empowerment as well as women’s involvement in decision making processes is promoted. EAVN uses a strength-based approach for the support of women having/had experiences of abuse, with central elements being the holistic approach of each woman’s needs and the use of their own strengths for both being empowered and contribute to the empowerment of their peers. EAVN has designed, implemented and evaluated the Gender Equality Awareness Raising agianst Intimate Partner Violence (GEAR against IPV) approach aiming at primary and secondary prevention of IPV in adolescents in 7 EU Member States. Publications include extensive educational material for training professionals and sensitizing adolescents on IPV issues, and supportive material for abused women. EAVN monitors all data collected by Greek Authorities on VAWG and DV, monitors the adoption and way of implementation of policies and exerts pressure towards the compliance of Greece with EU and International standards.
Mail: info@antiviolence-net.eu
antiviolence-net.eu
Address: Calle Padilla, 208-210, baixos, 08012 Barcelona
Mail: aroa@fundacioaroa.org
fundacioaroa.org
