Congo Connect is a network of individuals working to raise hope for eastern Congo. The network is a meeting of minds for individuals with an interest in working towards a brighter future for the Democratic Republic of Congo. 

Our mission is to create a space where we can challenge the prevailing attitudes of hopelessness and despair that dominate the perception of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, by highlighting many of the incredible untold stories of bravery, strength, positivity and innovation from eastern DRC. 

We are driven by the injustice of Africa’s deadliest conflict in which an estimated six million people have died and half a million women have been raped, in a territorial struggle for supremacy and mineral wealth among warring factions. 

The End Violence Against Women Coalition is a unique coalition of organisations and individuals campaigning to end all forms of violence against women. We were set up in 2005 when women's organisations and others came together to lobby the government to take a more strategic approach to ending violence against women, including making a commitment to work which aims to prevent violence against women.

We continue to lobby all levels of government in the UK, and we challenge the wider cultural attitudes that tolerate and condone violence against women.

East London Fawcett Group The East London Fawcett Group (‘ELF’) was conceived in 2011 with the intention of making East London the best example of a gender equal community in the UK. Through a programme of inspiring events and activities, ELF aims to engage women and men with the progressive ideas, campaigns and policies of the group. The direction the group takes is decided collectively and reflects the knowledge and experiences of its diverse membership.

The Great East London Art Audit is a campaign launched by the East London Fawcett Group in order to provide a platform for celebrating women in the arts. The projects and events we conceive, and are involved in, encourage a wider examination of the position of women within today’s art world, and address contemporary issues surrounding gender inequality within London.

In 1999, filmmaker Jeremy Gilley founded Peace One Day, a non-profit organisation, and in 2001 Peace One Day’s efforts were rewarded when the member states of the United Nations unanimously adopted the first ever annual day of global ceasefire and non-violence on 21 September – Peace Day.

Peace One Day’s objective is to institutionalise Peace Day 21 September, making it a day that is self-sustaining, an annual day of global unity, a day of intercultural cooperation on a scale that humanity has never known.

Inspired by a 70% recorded reduction in violent incidents on Peace Day in Afghanistan (source: United Nations Department of Safety and Security), Jeremy launched the Global Truce campaign: a global effort to mobilise the largest gathering of individuals in the name of peace and create the largest reduction of violence ever recorded on one day – Peace Day 21 September. His vision for this campaign is to build a series of coalitions and networks, enabling organisations around the world to share ideas and become inspired by one another’s Peace Day activities.

UK Feminista supports people to campaign for a world where women and men are equal.

Why? Because despite massive advances in the status of women, gender inequality remains rife in the UK and across the world.

We believe that political, economic and social equality between women and men is possible – and it is a world that will be better for all.

But progress doesn’t just ‘happen’. It takes ordinary women and men to stand up and be counted and create the world they want to live in. Our aim is to inspire and enable people to do just that.

Women for Women International provides women survivors of war, civil strife and other conflicts with the tools and resources to move from crisis and poverty to stability and self-sufficiency, thereby promoting viable civil societies. We're changing the world one woman at a time.

Women for Women International works with socially excluded women in eight countries where war and conflict have devastated lives and communities. Each woman we serve has her own story—some of loved ones murdered, and others of physical and emotional trauma. Most have endured a struggle for survival.

When we enroll women in our one-year programme, they learn job skills and receive business training so they can earn a living. Women become confident, independent and productive, embracing their importance in rebuilding their families, their communities and ultimately their nations.

Women for Women believes that lasting change can only be achieved when women have access to both knowledge and resources.

The London Feminist Network (LFN) is a women-only feminist networking and campaigning organisation that is based in London. LFN was formed in 2004 to unite London-based feminist groups and individuals and currently has more than 1,700 members. LFN organises the annual Reclaim The Night march to raise awareness of violence against women. In 2013, Reclaim the Night will be held on the same day as the Feminism in London conference, in October.