General Resources and Statistics
- Gender Inequality Index - UN Development Programme (multiple indexes by nation)
hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/gii - Women’s Indicators and Statistics Database
unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/gender/wistat/ - MENA Development Report – Opening Doors: Gender Equality and Development in the Middle East and North Africa
openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/12552/751810PUB0EPI002060130Opening0doors.pdf?sequence=1 - Directory of UN Resources on Gender and Women’s Issues – Statistics and Indicators
www.un.org/womenwatch/directory/statistics_and_indicators_60.htm - Amnesty International
www.amnestyusa.org/our-work/countries/middle-east-and-north-africa/ - Arab Barometer
www.arabbarometer.org/instruments-and-data-files - Pew Research Center – Middle East and North Africa
www.pewglobal.org/topics/middle-east-and-north-africa/ - Voice of the People - Social Science Data Archive – Middle East
dataarchives.ss.ucla.edu/da_catalog/da_catalog_SearchResults.php?searchTerm=middle+east - World Values Survey
www.worldvaluessurvey.org
Political Participation
- Women in Parliament
www.ipu.org/wmn-e/classif.htm - Women’s Learning Partnership – Political Participation Resources
www.learningpartnership.org/political-participation-resources - AGORA – Parliamentary Development and Activities
www.agora-parl.org/node/10298 - National Democratic Institute – Women’s Political Participation
www.ndi.org/womens-political-participation - National Endowment for Democracy
www.ned.org/research/democracy-research-guide/womens-political-participation
Economic Empowerment
- World Bank
www.worldbank.org/en/region/mena - World Economic Forum – Gender Gap (includes country profiles)
www.weforum.org/issues/global-gender-gap - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) – Social Institutions and Gender Index
genderindex.org/ranking/Middle%20East%20and%20North%20Africa - UN ESCWA - Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
www.escwa.un.org/divisions/ecw.asp?division=ecw
Human Rights
- Arab Network for Human Rights Information
www.anhri.net/en/ - Human Rights Watch - MENA
www.hrw.org/middle-east/n-africa - UN Human Rights Watch – MENA
www.ohchr.org/EN/Countries/MENARegion/Pages/MenaRegionIndex.aspx - International Federation for Human Rights - MENA
www.fidh.org/en/north-africa-middle-east/ - Middle East Institute
www.mei.edu/issues/human-rights - Al-Karama
en.alkarama.org/
Resources by Country
Algeria
- La Ligue Algérienne pour la Défense des Droits de l’Homme (Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights)
www.la-laddh.org/ - Council of the Nation of Algeria (Upper house of Parliament) - Arabic
www.majliselouma.dz/ - People’s National Assembly (Lower house of Parliament) - Arabic
www.apn-dz.org/ - Algeria Watch
algeria-watch.org/index_en.htm
Bahrain
- Bahrain Center for Human Rights
www.bahrainrights.org/ - Americans for Democracy and Human Rights in Bahrain
adhrb.org/ - Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights
byshr.org/ - Bahrain Human Rights Watch Society
www.bhrws.org/eng/ - Bahrain Monitor
www.bahrainmonitor.org/ - European-Bahraini Organization for Human Rights
www.ebohr.org/ - Bahrain Forum for Human Rights
www.bfhr.org/english/
Egypt
- The National Council for Women
www.ncwegypt.com/index.php/en/ - The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights
en.eohr.org/ - The National Council for Human Rights
www.nchregypt.org/index.php/en/ - The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights
eipr.org/en - Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies
www.cihrs.org/?lang=en - Afro-Egyptian Human Rights Organization
www.aehro.org/inside.aspx?op=introduction&x=2 - United Nations Population Fund - Egypt
egypt.unfpa.org/english/Staticpage/2091d235-c9bf-45a9-88ad-295f00cf53a4/Gender_Equality_and_Human_Rights.aspx - Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights
ecesr.com/en/
Iraq
- Iraq Foundation
www.iraqfoundation.org/projects_overview.htm - The Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq
www.owfi.info/ - The Kurdish Human Rights Project (Iran/Iraq)
www.khrp.org/ - Women Empowerment Organization Iraq
www.weoiraq.org/
Jordan
- National Center for Human Rights – Jordan
www.nchr.org.jo/english/home.aspx - Amman Center for Human Rights Studies
www.achrs.org/english/ - Adaleh Center for Human Rights Studies
www.adaleh-center.org/new/
Kuwait
- Kuwait Society for Human Rights (Arabic)
kuwaithumanrights.org.kw/ - The Kuwait Association of Basic Evaluators for Human Rights
www.humanrights.org.kw/ - Women’s Cultural and Social Society
www.kwtwcss.org/
Lebanon
- The Lebanese Center for Human Rights
www.cldh-lebanon.org/english - League for Lebanese Women’s Rights
llwr.org/english.html
Libya
- Libya Human Rights Commission
libyanhumanrightscommission.org/about.php - Libyan League for Human Rights
libyanleague.org/
Morocco
- Moroccan Association of Human Rights
www.amdh.org.ma/En - Conseil National Des Droits de L’homme (National Council of Human Rights)
www.ccdh.org.ma/an
Oman
- National Human Rights Council of Oman
www.nhrc.om/en/ - Monitor of Human Rights in Oman
humanrightsconnected.org/organizations/monitor-of-human-rights-in-oman-mhromn - National Human Rights Commission of Oman
www.nhrc.om/en/about-us/nhrc-oman-members/ - Gulf Cooperation Council Human Rights
www.gcchumanrights.org/oman.html - The National Committee for Human Rights in Oman
www.omaninfo.com/oman/national-committee-human-rights.asp
Qatar
- National Human Rights Council Qatar
www.nhrc-qa.org/en/ - National Commission for Human Rights Qatar
www.aehrd.info/j02/index.php?option=com_contact&view=contact&id=17%3Athe-national-commission-for-human-rights-qatar&catid=34%3Aaehrd-member-organisations&Itemid=58&lang=en - Global Women Qatar
www.globalwomenqatar.com/
Saudi Arabia
- Human Rights First Society – Saudi Arabia
hrfssaudiarabia.org/ - National Society for Human Rights
nshr.org.sa/en/ - Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia
www.cdhr.info/ - Institute for Human Rights in Saudi Arabia
www.ihrsaudiarabia.org/
Syria
- Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
syriahr.com/en/ - Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies
www.dchrs.org/english/news.php?aboutus - Eyes on Syria (Amnesty International)
www.eyesonsyria.org/ - Syrian Human Rights Committee
www.shrc.org/ - Syrian Network for Human Rights
www.dchrs.org/english/news.php?aboutus
Tunisia
- Conseil National pour les Libertés en Tunisie (National Council for Liberties in Tunisia)
cnlt-majless.tn/web/qui-somme-nous/ - Tunisian Association of Democratic Women (French)
femmesdemocrates.org/
United Arab Emirates
- Emirates Center for Human Rights
www.echr.org.uk/ - UAE Embassy – Women in the UAE
www.uae-embassy.org/uae/women-in-the-uae - Sheikh Mohammed – Women in the UAE
www.sheikhmohammed.co.ae/vgn-ext-templating/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=7d3c4c8631cb4110VgnVCM100000b0140a0aRCRD
West Bank and Gaza
- Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
www.pchrgaza.org/portal/en/ - The Arab Association for Human Rights
www.arabhra.org/hra/Pages/Index.aspx?Language=2 - Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel
adalah.org/eng/ - The Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group
www.phrmg.org/ - Palestinian Human Rights Organization
www.palhumanrights.org/ - Human Rights in Palestine
humanrightsinpalestine.com/ - Americans United for Palestinian Human Rights
auphr.org/ - Union of Palestinian Women Committees
www.upwc.org.ps/
Yemen
- Ministry of Human Rights – Yemen
mhrye.org/eng/ - Yemen Rights Monitor (blog)
yemenrightsmonitor.blogspot.com/