Petition Co-Sponsors
As of November 1997


United Nations Day,
October 24, 1997

Sen. Margaret Reynolds, Australia; Noeleen Heyser, UNIFEM; Cora Weiss, International Peace Bureau; Pres. Hennadiy Udovenko, Ukraine; Pamela Adler-Fraser, International Womens Tribune Center; Gail Lerner, World Council of Churches, CCIA


Co-Sponsoring Organizations

31st December Women's Movement (Ghana), Adrian Dominican Sisters (USA), Afghan Women's Network in Islamabad (Pakistan), AlDOS-Associazone Italiana Donne per la Sviluppo (Italy), Amersfoort (Netherlands), Arab Lawyers Union (Egypt), Asia -Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (Kuala Lumpur), Asian Women's Human Rights Council (Philippines), Asmita Resource Centre for Women (India), Association de Solidarite des Femmes Rwandaises (Rwanda), Association of Women of the Mediterranean Region (Cyprus), Association pour le progres et la defense des droits des femmes Maliennes (Mali), Association Venezolana por una Sexualidad Alternativa (Venezuela), Atlanta Union of the Homeless (USA), AWEPA-European Parliamentarians for Africa (Netherlands), Barnard-Boecker Centre Foundation (Canada), Batis Centre for Women (Philippines), Body Shop International (UK), CADEF (Mali), CADEF-Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action (Trinidad and Tobago), Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Cymru (Wales), Canadian Peace Alliance (Canada), Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women in Nova Scotia, ,Canadian Voice of Women for Peace, Catholics for a Free Choice (USA), ,Catholic Institute of Education (South Africa), Center for Women's Global Leadership (USA), Change (UK), ,Centro de Estudios de la Mujer de la Universidad Central de Venezuela (Venezuela), Centro de Investigacion Sodal, Formacion y Estudios de la Mujer-CISFEM (Venezuela), Centro de la Mujer Peruana Flora Tristan (Peru), C Change (UK), Church Women United (USA), Circulos Femeninos Populares (Venezuela), ClSFEM-Centro de Investigacion Social, Formacion y Estudios de la Mujer (Venezuela), CLEF-Co-ord., Francaise pour le lobby Europeen des femmes (France), CND CYMRU (Wales), Co-ordination of Women's Advocacy (Geneva), Co-ordination of Women's Advocacy (Switzerland), Collectif Pro-Femmes/Twese Hamwe (Rwanda), Commission of the Churches of the World Council of Churches (Geneva), CONG de Mujeres (Venezuela), Cornwall County Council's Women's Network (UK), Development Action for Women Network (Philippines), Enda Inter-Arabe Environnement & Developpement du Monde Arabe (Tunisia), Equality Now (USA), European Council of WIZO Federations (France), FemPress (Chile), Fiji Women's Crisis Centre (Fiji), Florida Coalition for Peace and Justice (FCPJ-USA), Frente Continental de Mujeres (Venezuela), Fundacion Servicio, Paz y Justicia (Argentina), Fundamujer (Venezuela), Grandmothers for Peace International (USA), Harlem Women International (USA), Healthy Planet-NL (Netherlands), IFOR-WPP Women Peace Makers frog. (Netherlands), Indigenous World (USA), Initiatives des Femmes Africaines de France et d'Europe (France), Intercommunity Center for Justice and Peace (USA), International Assodation for Women's Rights and Solidarity with Iranian Women (France), International Peace Bureau (Geneva and New York), International Black Women for Wages for Housework (UK/USA), International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development (Canada), International Council of Jewish Women (USA), International Prostitutes Collective (UK/USA), International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism (Japan), International Solidarity Network of Women Living Under Muslim Laws (France), International Wages Due Lesbians (UK/USA), International Wages for Housework Campaign (UK/USA), International Women for Mutual Security (Canada), International Women's Anthropology Conference (USA), International W omen's Tribune Centre (New York), Isis International (Chile), ISIS/Women's International CrossCultural Exchange (Uganda), Israel Women's Network (Israel), Kyadondo Young Single Mothers' Group (Uganda), Lend international (USA), LILA Pilipina (Philippines), Madre (USA), Ministry of Gender and Children's Affairs (Sierra Leone), Mira Senteret (Norway), Na'amat (Israel), National Clearinghouse on Marital and Date Rape (USA), National Committee for Women for Democratic Iran (USA), National Council of Negro Women (USA), National Foundation for India (India), Network of Rural Women for Advocacy and Research (Pakistan), Nova Scotia Voice of Women for Peace (Canada), NYSN-Foundation Women's Network (Netherlands), Pan Pacific and South East Asia Women's Association of Thailand (Thailand), Payday Men's network (UK/USA) Peace 2000 (USA) Peace Action (USA), Peace Action Education Fund (USA), Peace and Conflict Studies Institute (USA), Peace Foundation (Aotearoa/New Zealand), People's Decade for Human Rights Education (USA), Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Religious Society of Friends Committee on the UN (USA), Polish Federation for Women and Family Planning (Poland), Presbyterian Church of Canada-Decade in Solidarity with Women (Canada), Quilombo-Centro Ecumenico Feminino da Diaspora Negra (Brazil), Quixote Center (USA), Rainbo (USA), SAFTINET/Domestic Violence Center (New Zealand), Reseau Interafricain Francophone des Femmes pour la Defense des Droits et la Lutte contre la Violence faites aux Femmes (Senegal), Sakshi (India), Sisters of Loreto (USA), Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur (USA), Society of the Sacred Heart (Australia- New Zealand, Canada, and Uganda-Kenya Provinces), Society of the Sacred Heart Justice and Peace Network (Italy), Sociologists for Women in Society (USA), Stichting Vrouwenhuis (Netherlands), Sufi Women Organization (USA), Swiss Peace Foundation, (Switzerland), Taller Salud (Puerto Rico), Trickle Up Program (USA), UN Platform for Action Committee (Canada), UNA-Suriname (Suriname), UNESCO, WAND (Women's Action for New Directions, USA), Union de Mujeres Negras (Venezuela), Unitarian-Universalist Service Committee (USA), United Church of ChrisVBWM (USA), United Methodist Church/ GBGA4/ Women's Division (USA), Voice of Women (Aotearoa/New Zealand), War and Peace Foundation (USA), WEDO (Women's Environment and Development Organization, USA), Winvisible (UKJUSA), Women Against Rape (UK), Women Cell-Humanity Association (India), Women for International Peace and Arbitration (USA), Women for Peace International Department (Netherlands), Women for Women's Human Rights (Turkey), Women of Faith Net Worker Society (Canada), Women Working for Social Progress (Trinidad and Tobago), Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights (Netherlands), Women's Human Rights Group (Croatia), Women's Intercultural Network (USA), Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (Aotearoa-New Zealand and Australia), Women's Missionary Society of the African Methodist Church (USA), Women's Resource Center at St. Lawrence University, NY (USA) Women's World Summit Foundation (Geneva), Women, Law and Development International (USA), Women-Church Convergence (USA), World YWCA (Geneva), YWCA of Aotearoa/New Zealand (Aotearoa/New Zealand).

To be a co-sponsor, please contact either:

CCIA/WCC at fax: (1-212) 867-7462 or

Peace Action/lnter Peace Bureau at fax: (1-212) 750-5849 or

WTC at fax: (1-212) 661-2704.

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