Sex and gender 

Ballybeen Women´s Centre
An integrated service provider committed to enabling women, young people and children to realise their potential and fulfill their aspirations through the promotion of health, personal and socio-economic development

Belfast and Lisburn Women´s Aid
Provides confidential support, information and emergency accommodation for women, with or without children, whose lives have been affected by domestic violence.

Gender Recognition Panel Website, Tribunals Service
Set up under the General Recognition Act 2004 to ensure that transsexual people can enjoy the rights and responsibilties appropriate to their acquired gender, it assesses applications from transsexual people for legal recognition of the gender in which they now live

Gingerbread
Gingerbread is the charity which works nationally and locally, for and with single parent families, to improve their lives. The Gingerbread Single Parent Helpline provides help, advice and signposting on a wide range of parenting issues including benefits, tax, legal rights, family law and contact issues, childcare, violence, housing, maintenance and CSA

The Men´s Project
An initiative within the Parents Advice Centre, aiming to increase awareness of the issues facing local men and boys and promoting their social inclusion

National Women´s Council of Ireland
National representative organisation for women and women´s groups in Ireland

Women´s Resource and Development Agency
Regional organisation dedicated to advancing women´s equality and participation in society by working to bring about social, political and economic change for women
 
Women´s Support Network
An umbrella organisation of commuity-based women´s groups, centres and organisations in Northern Ireland that plays a role in coordinating and networking with these organisations and facilitating joint lobbying to challenge inequity and promote positive policy change within a democratic framework 

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UK

Families Need Fathers
UK charity that provides information and support to parents, including unmarried parents, of either sex, and is chiefly concerned with the problems of maintaining a child´s relationship with both parents during and after a family breakdown

Opportunity Now
UK-wide membership organisation representing employers who want to transform the workplace by ensuring inclusiveness for women

Women & Equality Unit
Part of the Department for Communities and Local Government, it supports the Ministers for Women, who are responsible for promoting and realising the benefits of diversity in the economy and more widely

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European and international

Women Watch - UN Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality (IANWGE)
Central portal to information and resources on the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women throughout the United Nations system, including the UN Secretariat, regional commissions, funds, programmes, specialized agencies and academic and research institutions

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