Non-governmental organisations, and notably women’s rights organisations, are instrumental in raising awareness about the various ways and aspects of women’s lives which have been affected by the COVID-19 crisis.

This page aims at compiling the various initiatives, statements, reports and other relevant work carried out by NGOs, with particular regard to European and international NGOs.

CIVIL SOCIETY INITIATIVES

 

Amnesty International
Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID)
Care
Centre for Global Development
Center for Reproductive Rights
Equality Now
Equinet
European Disability Forum
Euro-Mediterranean Women's Foundation
European Network for the Work with Perpetrators of Domestic Violence
European Network of Migrant Women
European Women's Lobby
Feminist Alliance for Rights
Gender and COVID-19
Global Health 5050
Global Network of Women Peacebuilders
Global Network of Women’s Shelters and Asian Network of Women Shelters
Human Rights Watch
International Committee of the Red Cross
International Gender Champions (ICG)
International Planned Parenthood Federation
International Medical Advisory Panel
Madre
Nordic Information on Gender (NIKK)
Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM)

The COVID-19 pandemic: we need urgent measures to protect people and mend the cracks in our health, social protection and migration systems, March 2020

Plan International
Sexual and Reproductive health matters
Wave Network
Women in Development Europe +
Women in Migration Network
Women’s Link Worldwide
Work with perpetrators