International Women's Tribune Centre

The International Women's Tribune Centre (IWTC) is an international non-governmental organization established in l976 following the United Nations International Women's Year World Conference in Mexico City. With a commitment to empowering people and building communities, IWTC provides communication, information, education, and organizing support services to women's organizations and community groups working to improve the lives of women, particularly low-income women, in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe and Western Asia.

Their work is grounded on the premise that access to information and the ability to communicate are fundamental to the process of women's empowerment, to women's ability to re-defining development paradigms, to women's participation in the public policy arena and to the building of democratic societies. Efforts are focused on four programme areas:
– Human rights, human security & peacebuilding
– Global policies and local action that impact on women including the Beijing Platform for Action, Millennium Development Goals and UN Security Council Resolution 1325
– Information and Communication Technologies, basic needs and women’s economic empowerment, and
– Information access and local content development (Women, Ink.).
Crosscutting throughout all their work is an emphasis on the use of the new information communication technologies (ICTs) for poverty alleviation and empowerment.