Please follow the links below if you would like to learn more about organisations and projects which are carrying out work or research internationally or abroad to help women and children who are experiencing domestic violence, homelessness, trafficking or other infringements of their human rights.

• Amnesty International - Working to protect human rights worldwide
• REPORT: Russian Federation: Cases of violence against women in the family

• Human Rights Watch - Defending human rights worldwide
• REPORT: Too Little, Too Late: State response to violence against women

• "Ekaterina" Women's Crisis Centre, Ekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk, Russia - Providing help and support to women suffering from domestic violence, sexual assualt and trafficking.

• Vital Voices - Promoting women's participation in society; encouraging potential female leaders, supporting Afghan women, raising awareness about human rights and trafficking in women and girls

• Women's International League for Peace and Freedom - Aims to facilitate structural changes to achieve social, economic and political equality for all without discrimination

• Department for International Development - Leading the British Government's fight against world poverty

• Council of Europe - Representing 46 European countries in the defence of human rights, democracy and the rule of law, promotion of a European identity and standardisation of social and legal practices
• REPORT: The Protection of Women against violence (2002)

• United Nations (Women & Gender Issues)- Improving the status of women and achieving their equality with men