A BRIEF AND URGENT WORD: WHY VISIT THESE LINKS NOW?

ANNOTATED LINKS

International/Global Monitoring, Statistics, References and Issue Background

http://www.ipu.org/wmn-e/classif.htm
Countries' ranks and percentages on gender in office
http://www.ipu.org/wmn-e/world.htm
The world's current imbalance, viewed by region
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/osagi/fpgenderbalancestats.htm
Stats on the current and dangerous gender imbalance at the UN.
http://www.un.org/ecosocdev/geninfo/women/women96.htm
Various stats on gender balance in government and society.
http://magnet.undp.org/new/pdf/gender/wpp/women_book.pdf
Women's Political Participation and Good Governance: 21st Century Challenges:
UNDP document admits that the UN and its member delegations are not living up to their own promises on gender
http://www.oocities.org/inallherandhisnames/seeing.html
Why Geopolitical Couples in Leadership Must Lead Gender Balance; Includes Sections on UN's Nane and Kofi Annan, IPU's Najma Heptulla and Anders Johnsson; Many First Women, Men and Couples
http://disarmament.un.org/gender.htm
The correlation of gender balance with disarmament and peace.
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/
UN portal on Women; UN not yet living up to own promises on gender.
http://www.oocities.org/ark_earthinbalance/home.html
How to avoid flood of disaster and have global rainbow of gender balance instead
http://www.oocities.org/ark_earthinbalance/whotruegovt.html
An already present possible cooperation roster for gender balance in world leadership
http://www.womenworldleaders.org/
Organization where current and recent women heads of state and major political leaders work together; includes Benazir Bhutto, Kim Campbell, Helen Clark, Tansu Ciller, Corazon Aquino and many others
http://www.guide2womenleaders.com/
Extensive current and hisherstorical lising by Danish gentleman professor
http://businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/apr2003/nf20030415_4958_db028.htm
Misnomered article on need for balance; quotes unnamed warlord of choosing to install just that cooptable level of women, 13%, to office, that exists in the US, because it avoids any real progress for women or democracy
http://www.oocities.org/theuniversaldeclaration/thedeclaration.html
Global declaration, includes full explanation of "at least 75% gender balanced", 37% of each gender as flexible minimum standard.
http://www.wedo.org/news/Jul01/csw.htm
Plans on gender balance still awaiting implementation at UN
http://www.socintwomen.org/QUOTA/QUOTAEng1.html
listing of the many world political parties standards and monitoring of their own gender balance
http://www.idea.int/gender/index.htm
International organization on gender balance.
http://www.ids.ac.uk/bridge/
Gender balance international clearinghouse based in England.
http://www.genie.ids.ac.uk/
Genie-Gender Information Exchange
http://www.siyanda.org/
siyanda-mainstreaming gender equality
http://www.sosig.ac.uk/roads/subject-listing/Europe-cat/wompol.html
Social Sciences Internet Gateway: Women and Politics
http://www.idea.int/gender/index.htm
International organization on gender balance.
http://www.socintwomen.org/QUOTA/QUOTAEng1.html
listing of the many world political parties standards and monitoring of their own gender balance
http://www.alliance21.org/
a grass roots online World Assembly that has a "yin-yang" task force
http://www.ourvoices.org/
Global People's Assembly, a grass roots assembly online observer of global organizations.
http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/
Extensive herhistorical site with documents of women's progress to equal political representation throughout all ages and countries, including Declaration of Sentiments and many others.
http://www.oocities.org/newuniversalearthcharter/universalearth.html
The New Universal Earth Charter revises the earlier Earth Charter to highlight the importance of representing women equally with men in preserving and sustaining the Earth as a Whole and in human readiness for successful exploration of the Universe
http://www.sigi.org/
Sisterhood Is Global Institute (SIGI)
http://www.partnershipway.org/
Famed Anthrologists-Scientist Authors on Gender and World Future
http://www.sacredchoices.org/bookreview.htm
International Theologians of major faiths on what men owe to women now.

Regional and National

http://www.nikk.uio.no/oversikter/lige_e.html
Nordic Countries website on coordinating gender policy.
http://www.president.fi/netcomm/
Tarya Halonen of Finland, one of Scandinavia's many women Presidents
http://www.riksdagen.se/english/members/index.asp
Members of the Swedish Riksdag, a leader in gender balanced representation.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/women/story/0,3604,952106,00.html
Welsh Governments recent ascension to 50-50 on gender puts England to shame
http://www.engender.org.uk/scotparl/
Scotland's excellent gender balance, which puts England to shame
http://cm.coe.int/stat/E/Public/2003/adopted_texts/recommendations/2003r3.htm
Council of Europe Principles on gender balance.
http://www.oocities.org/urgentupdate_genderandgovernment/excerpts.html
Excerpts from Constitutions of countries and global declarations on gender balance)
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~cawp
Center for American Women in Politics site has extensive data.
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~cawp/pdf/stleg.pdf
Gender rank/percents of every US State Legislature; few represent both genders yet.
http://www.oocities.org/valleyofthepols/livingherandhisstory.html
A Critique On Why American Women Leaders Have Lagged on Gender Balance
http://www.oocities.org/valleyofthepols/tipper.html
How Tipper and Al's disinterest in gender balance issues tipped US toward regression, and how they can make up for their mistakes.
http://www.nafe.org/
Reach US Women Executives, including Women in Politics
http://www.ncsl.org/programs/wln/officers.htm
US Women's Legislative Network Officers
http://www.gendergap.com/
Gender Gap; Includes US Fed and State by State Statistics Sections
http://www.iwpr.org/
Institute for Women's Policy Research.
http://www.thewhitehouseproject.org/
The White House Project
http://www.americanwomenpresidents.org/
Promotes US Women to Catch Up With Other Countries re Executive Office
http://www.oneworld.org/ips2/dec99/14_17_046.html
India's Women's Reservation Bill, in 1999.
http://cgi.rediff.com/news/2003/may/06bill.htm
Women's Bill in Lok Sabha in 2003.
http://www.capwip.org/
Center for Asian Pacific Women in Politics.
http://www.annuaire-au-femin.tm.fr/englMANIFESTO96.html
The manifesto of Frenchwomen of all parties and independents that gave rise to Parite laws.
http://www.international-community.de/ic0400/frm_int.htm
International Discussion of French Parite http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m0300/1_25/54955672/print.jhtml
More on the French parity achievement
http://www.cge.org.za/index.html
S. Africa's Commission on Gender Equality Home Page
http://www.wedo.org/balance2.htm
Gender Balance in South Africa, Zambia and Namibia
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/users/sawweb/sawnet/SAW.orgn.html
South Asian Womens' Resources on Gender and Government
http://www.rawa.org/
Revolutionary Association of Women of Afghanistan Their, and all the world's movement toward freedom and security will be short-lived, if their "liberators" are hypocritical about gender representation in their own lands.
There are many other national and regional sites. Use your search engine and the global exchanges and databases listed above to find them. If you contact them, tell them to link to global websites above, and to this website; because gender balance is a global cause important to all women and men and must trancend national boundaries.

Discussion and Strategy Sites

http://www.qweb.kvinnoforum.se/
International forums on gender based in Sweden.
http://www.oocities.org/genders2peace/index.html
includes a section on how to telecommunicate gender balance information inexpensively and effectively.
http://www.wedo.org/programs/gender.htm
Case studies in depth on 50-50, from France to Namibia
http://www.cld.org/
Resource Kits and Many Resource Papers on 50-50 in government
http://www.ifuw.org/
International Federation of University Women
http://www.oocities.org/worldofgood/goodhome.html
Gender-Balanced Operating and Organizing for Democracy;
http://www.europrofem.org/
European Pro-Feminist Men.
http://www.ids.ac.uk/bridge/
Gender balance international clearinghouse based in England.
http://www.angelfire.com/folk/announcepeace/index.html
Globally Oriented Announcements about real gender balanced government.
http://www.interaction.org/library/detail.php?id=1177
Plans and activities for gender balance.

Why Men Advocate for Gender Balance

http://www.europrofem.org/frame_en.htm
Europrofem Site with links to many profeminists men's groups worldwide
http://www.nomas.org/
American Pro-feminist Men; still lacks specifics about gender balance in office compared to European and International sites.
http://www.montagu.org/Ashley.htm
The granddaddy of recognizing women's importance to men and the world.
http://groups.msn.com/shequality/
Discussion List to Bring Gender Balance to England
http://www.whiteribbon.ca/
White Ribbon Campaign in Canada
http://www.oocities.org/ark_earthinbalance/w92x2.html
Pairs Promiment Men of Gender Balance with Prominent Women; Includes Lionel Jospin of France, Oscar Arias of Costa Rica; connects to longer list with Amartya Sen of India. Pentii Arajarvi of Finland, Michael Moore of the US and many others

Economics and Gender Balance

http://www.aurora/icaap.org/talks/waring.htm
Some of now world-influential New Zealand woman economist Marilyn Waring's Thoughts on How to Count Women's Work.
http://womenstrike8m.server101.com/English/intro.htm
Multinational unions and activists actions using always available method.
http://www.oocities.org/global_lysistrata/global_lysistrata.html
Guide to boycotting goods and media that sustain gender imbalance.
http://www.royalroads.ca/ste/research/gender/PA_Econ.html
More on counting women's work.
http://www.massey.ac.nz/~kbirks//gender/econ/nztus.htm
More on women and economics from New Zealand
http://www.gpiatlantic.org/realitycheck/realitycheck6.pdf
Dangers of economics without counting women's unpaid labor.
http://www.gpiatlantic.org/ab_housework.shtml
Achievements on counting housework, child and eldercare.
http://homepage.eircom.net/~with/
Irish view on women's work, sustainability, peace
http://www.oocities.org/sacredaccounting/graceperiod.html
Gender balance as payment due for centuries of triple-taxation of women that is needed now to balance cosmic acccount.
http://www.un.org/ecosocdev/geninfo/women/women96.htm
Stats on gender and world situation.
http://www.payequity.net/WFHCampaign/wfhcpgn.htm
Wages for Housework Campaign
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/14/international.europe/14NORW.html
Norwegian and Swedish plans to monitor corporate gender imbalance.
http://www.gender-equity.org/
Discusses academia's inequities by gender.
http://www.wage.org/
Gender pay equity for universities.

The Critical Need for Women and Fair Men Journalists
to Overcome and Get Around Big Brother's Censorship and Suffocation
of Global Gender Balance News, Especially in the US

http://www.oxygen.com/
Oprah's antidote to male dominated media; includes section on gender balance.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/
US male social satirist whose book advocates equal presence of women in leadership)
http://www.oocities.org/talkofthenations/TOTN.html
Casebook warnings on how women can hurt women's progress toward representation
http://www.vitalvoices.org/http://www.vitalvoices.org/<br>Vital%20Voices%20Around%20the%20World%20-%20Why%20It%20is%20Vital%20to%20Include%20CurrentlyExcluded%20Women%20and%20Gender%20in%20News%20Reporting<br><A%20HREF=
IWMF: Strengthening the Voice of Women in the News Worldwide
http://www.oocities.org/global_lysistrata/global_lysistrata.html#EL3
Ways to hold well known media accountable, including some "Women's" programming
http://www.iawrt.org/home.htm>http://www.iawrt.org/home.htm</A><br>International%20Association%20of%20Women%20in%20Radio%20and%20Television<br><A%20HREF=
European codes of journalism ethics
http://www.ejc.nl/
European Journalist Community

Gender Balance and World Peace and Environment/Sustainable Peace Culture

http://disarmament.un.org/gender.htm
The correlation of gender balance with disarmament and peace.
http://www.oocities.org/genderinspections/toallinspectors.html
Explains why gender inspections reduce the need for weapons inspections
http://www.wilpf.org/
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
http://www.wand.org/
Women's Action for New Directions
http://www.womenwagingpeace.org/
Harvard University Gender and Peace Studies
http://www.peacewomen.org/
Women working on peace issues
http://www.codepink4peace.org/
Code Pink For Peace Coalition
http://www.whiteribbon.org/
Canadian Men's Campaign Promoting Men's Respect for and Partnership with Women

Officials: Gender Balanced True Government ...Or Not Yet

The best sites that for monitoring gender balance among all countries are listed above in the first section above. But here are a few of the many additional gateway sites on government in general. They also can be used to see who are the current gender balance officials of countries that have attained gender balance and declare the need for gender representation and equality in laws and constitutions such as those of Sweden, South Africa, and now many others; as well as ways to see the names of shame: who is responsible for man-taining the anachronistic monogenderments of countries that have not yet brought Love into Office and are therefore still unnecessarily endangering their own people and the world. Many people already believe that officially gender balanced governments, along with national and international NGO's, the collectively gender balanced non-governmental organizations of the world -- and citizens like you who care -- are the actual loving government of the world , that has been, in harmony with God-Nature, sustaining whatever peace there is, despite the prideful errors of many titular officials who have not yet embraced gender balance. Many international and regional organizations still lack gender balance, and have therefore been unsuccessful in preventing self-destructive Big Brother domination, war, violence, poverty and terror that still so sadly and unnecessarily threaten our world. These risks will subside as soon as the world recognizes that the only real government(s) that serves the people and environment of Earth best, is gender representative and gender balanced, and as soon as most people welcome such government to office, as the essential Loving Way of the World.

http://www.ipu.org/parline-e/parlinesearch.asp
The InterParliamentary Union's Database of Parliaments and Governments of World/All Nations
http://www.adminet.com/world/gov/
A Gateway to World Officials and Governments
http://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/law/
Constitutions of Nations; many now have gender and democracy provisions
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/election.htm
Election Systems Around the World: Page needs gender and elections updating but helpful to gain an overview of where gender balance election laws are needed.

Note: Many of the websites listed above also have additional links sections that provide additional resources not listed here. If you know of a woman's rights, a good government or a peace organization website that still does not list any of these essential links and does not yet discuss comparative gender balance among countries, essential levels of gender representation for functional democracy, inform their membership and their webmaster immediately to update their website to include them.

There are also many other excellent sites on these topics, and news stories occurring daily that are not being reported and are being censored in dominant-male corporate media. Search your search engine, and international news sites, with terms such as gender equality, gender representation, gender balance, gender and peace, women, women's rights, etc. for even more.

A BRIEF AND URGENT WORD CONTINUED FROM ABOVE

In addition, viewed as a global chorus, many organizations (so-called NGO's, from women's groups to good government groups and other watchdog organizations, often called NGO's or "non-governmental organizations" but ethically speaking, they are already the real government that has been, in fact, sustaining Earth) are actively embodying and/or advocating more re-present-ation, the presence that more reasonably and cooperatively reflects and re-presents gender presence in the natural population, or gender balance, in democratic decision-making government.
Are the officials of your town, your political party, your land and your international diplomacy organization (i,e, the UN and IPU) gender representative and balanced enough (at or approaching between a reliable range of 75-100% balanced, that is, between about 37-50% of each gender, in legislative, executive and judicial office, to really serve democratically, non-destructively, most constructively and with Love?
Gender Balance in Local and National and World Government, is easy to bring about once the current and past cumulative imbalance, and the problems and risks it has wrought, is publically acknowledged and discussed, and many quick and painless mechanisms have brought it to many lands. But the failure of officials and citizens to discuss it widely now, especially regarding any offices currently in session, or for tickets on elections planned, contributes to increased likelihood of horrendous economic, social and environmental disaster happening to the world soon. All people are now at urgent risk until they speak out for gender balance in office as the best way to insure that Love rules the world.
Especially because of the lag on gender balance in the US and England, time is running out before the world disaster cycle begins full force. Gender imbalance in a highly technological world spells ethical errors and reckless risk on a massive, globalized scale. Isn't it time all acknowledged that the given, endowed balance of God-Nature's Love, of gender balance, must be present in governmental office, to assure that the Golden Rule of brotherhood and sisterhood, and not BIG BROTHER IN PRIDE-BEFORE-THE-FALL ignorance of God-Nature, is what is understood to be humanity's part in Real Power, Love, on Earth? Yes, the Time has Come.
Gender Balance is both Pro-Female and Pro-Male, and safeguards the common man, and the Earth as a Whole Belonging to Everyone, against exploitation and predation by the eventually also self-destructive BIG BROTHER, as much as it safeguards every woman. Gender Balance in Office is Waiting in the Wings. Only Gender Balance in Political Office, and Assisting Officials and their Spouses to become Accountable to Acknowledge, Make Way for, and Announce It, as the True Government, Ultimately Redeeming Themselves and Saving their Own Children as Much as the World, Can Both Avoid World Disaster and Bring All God-Nature's Blessings to You, All You Love and All On Earth.