United Kingdom

NGO CONTACTS FOR GREAT BRITAIN

Agency for Co-operation and Research in Development - ACORD
Issues: conflict prevention, conflict resolution and women’s role in this.
Dean Bradley house, 52 Horseferry Road, London SW1P 2AF
Tel: + 44 207 227 8600
Fax #: + 44 297 799 1868
Email: acord@gn.apc.org

Aldermaston Women's Peace Campaign
157 Lyndhurst Road Worthing West Sussex BN11 2DR
Tel: +44.1903 523 124
E-mail: waty@gn.apc.org or aldermastonwpc@gn.apc.org

British Overseas NGO's for Development (BOND)
BOND aims to improve the UK's contribution to international development by promoting the exchange of experience, ideas and information amongst BOND members between networks of NGOs in the UK and internationally with the UK government between BOND members and other UK bodies with an interest in international development
Regent's Wharf, 8 All Saint's St., London, N1 9Rl,
Tel: 020 7837 8344
Fax: 020 7837 4220
Email: bond@bond.org.uk
Website: www.bond.org.uk

Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women
Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford,
21 St. Giles Street, Oxford OX1 3LA

Centre for International Peacebuilding
The White House, 46 High St, Buntingford, Herts SG9 9AH
Tel: +44-1763-273492
Fax#: +44-1763-2744

Charity Know-How
Issues: tolerance education, human rights monitoring, conflict management and rehabilitation services to women.
114-118 Southampton Row, WC1B 5AA London
TEl: + 0207 400 2315
Fax #: + 0207 404 1331
Email: Ckh@caf.charity.net.org
Website: www.charitynet.org

City University London
Department of Sociology
Cynthia Cockburn
Research on: women in war and peace processes; feminist antimilitarism
Email: c.cockburn@ktown.demon.co.uk
Website / weblog: "NO TO WAR" http:/www.cynthiacockburn.org

Conflict, Development and Peace Network - CODEP
Dean Bradley House, 52 Horseferry Rd, 6th Floor, London SW10 2AF.

Conflict Research Education and Training - CREATE
Hawthorn House, 1, Lansdown Lane, Stroud, Gloucestershire GL5 1BJ.

Coventry Refugee Centre
Issues: works with asylum seekers in the UK. Believes that women are natural peacemakers, so tries to enable them in the peacemaking process.
311 Stoney Stanton Road, Coventry CV6 5DS
Tel: +44 24 7666 3031
Email: covpeace@gn.apc.org

Forum on Early Warning and Early Response - FEWER
The FEWER Secretariat
Old Truman Brewery, 91-95 Brick Lane, London, E1 6QN
Ph#: 4420-7247-7022
Fax#: 4420-7247-5290
Website: www.fewer.org

Gender Action for Peace and Security-UK (GAPS)
GAPS was established in May 2006 to promote, support and monitor the inclusion of a gender perspective in security and peacebuilding policies and the fulfillment of commitments made in UN Security Council resolution 1325, European Parliament resolution 2000/2025 and related instruments on women, peace and security.
Contact: Charlotte Onslow, GAPS Coordinator
Ph#: 07768 848101
Email: gaps.uk@googlemail.com

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Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp
Group originated in 1981 with marches and demonstrations against siting Cruise missiles at Greenham Common, U.K., an air force base. The effort was successful, and the group continues to protest nuclear weapons.
Email: greenhamwpc@hotmail.com
Website: www.web13.co.uk/greenham

Greenham Women
Email: greenhamwpc@hotmail.com

Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity - INCORE
Website: www.incore.ulst.ac.uk

IANSA Women's Network
IANSA - International Action Network on Small Arms
50 Westminster Bridge Road
The Chandlery- Suite 302
London SE1 7QY (UK)
Tel: +44 (0) 207 953 7648
Fax: +44 (0) 207 953 8222
Email: women@iansa.org
Website: www.iansa.org

International Alert
1 Glyn Street, London, SE11 5HT
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7793 8383
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7793 7975
Website: www.international-alert.org

International Conference on Violence, Abuse, and Women's Citizenship
Violence, Abuse and Gender Relations Research Unit
Leeds Metropolitan University
Calverley Street, Leeds LS1 3HE
Tel: 44 113 283 6710
Fax#: 44 113 283 6709
Email: violence.research@imu.ac.uk
Web: www.Imu.ac.uk/ces/vagr

International Council of Jewish Women
Issues: Human Rights/ Political Status of Women, Conflict Resolution
and Peace Building, Interfaith Dialogue, Refugees.
24-32 Stephenson Way, London NW1 2JW
Tel: 44 020 7388 8311
Fax#: 44 020 7387 2110
E-mail: hq@icjw.demon.co.uk
Website: www.icjw.org.uk

International Peace Bureau Supporters' Network
C/o Prince Edwards Rd, Lewes BN7 1BE, Sussex
Tel: +44-1273-476358
E-mail: geoann@rehin.u-net.com

Kushandira Pamwe
Antonia House, #262, Holloway Road, London N7 6NE
Tel: 0171-700-1833
Fax#: 0171-700-6247

London Women's Aid - LWA
P.O. Box 14041, London, EI 6NY
Tel: 44-171-392-2092
Fax#: 44-171 392 2030

Maendeleo ya Wanawakee
The Parish House, Nuttall Street
Tel: 44171 729-4375
Fax#: 44-171 613-4204

Maypole Fund
PO Box 14072, London, N16 SWB
Ph#: 4481 800 4961

Menwith Hill Women's Peace Camp NSA Space War Spy Base
On Aa59, nr Harrogate, N Yorks HG3 2LP
Tel: +44-1943-468593
E-mail: Cat@freewomen.freeserve.co.uk
Website: www.Imu.ac.uk/ces/vagr/fempeace/

Mothers for Peace
c/o 70 Station Rd., Burley-in-Wharfedale
Ilkley, LS29 7NG, West Yorkshire
Tel: +44 1943 864-577

National Peace Council
88 Islington High Street, London, N1 8EG
Tel: + 1 171 354 5200
Fax#: + 1 171 354 0033
E-mail: npc@gn.apc.org
Website: www.peacecouncil.org.uk/

National Women's Network For International Solidarity - NWN
c/o Flat 1, 10 Grove Road. Isleworth, Middlesex TW7 4JH
Tel: 44 181 8470467
Ph #/Fax #: 44 1703 554-434
Email: infown@aol.com

Oxfam International
Oxfam has pioneered a gender-sensitive approach to community development and peace building
274 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 7D2
Tel:+ 44 (0) 1865 312363
Fax#: + 44 (0) 1865 312600
Email: swilliams@oxfam.org.uk
Website: www.oxfam.org.uk

Peace Brigades International-Britain
1Awaterlow Rd, London N 19
Tel : +44-20-7281-5370
Fax#: +44-20-7272-9243
E-mail: D2346475@infotrade.co.uk
Website: www.igc.org/pbi/index.html

Seeds of Hope
East Timor Ploughshares
55 Queen Margaret's Grove, London NI 4P2
Tel: +44 171 923-9511

Sellafield Women's Peace Camp
Box Z,16 Sholebroke Av,Leeds LS7 3HB West Yorks
Tel: +44-113-262-9365
E-mail: cornerstone@gn.apc.org

Soroptomist International
Issues: women and peacebuilding activities and in the implementation of conflict prevention projects.
87 Glisson Road, Cambridge CB1 2HG
Tel: 44 01223 31883
Fax: 44 01223 467 951
Email: sorphq@dial.pipex.com
Website: http://www.soroptimist.org

Tawakal
583 Commercial Road London E1 0HJ
Tel: 44-171-7902700
Fax #: 44 171 2659929
Email: shaid9244@aol.com

War Resisters’ International (WRI) Women’s working group
5 Caledonian Rd, London, N1 9DX
Tel: 44.171.278.4040
Fax: 44.171. 278.0444
E-mail: warresisters@gn.apc.org
Website: www.gn.apc.org/warresisters

WOMANKIND
Viking House, 3rd Floor, 5-11 Worship Street, London EC 2A 2BH
Tel: ++ 44 207 588 6110
Fax: ++ 44 207 588 6101
Email: info@womankind.org.uk
Website: www.womankind.org.uk

Women Against War
11 Goodwin St., London, N4 3HQ

Women Against War Crime
c/o NWN
11 Goodwin St., London N4 3HQ
Tel: +44 207 263-7553
Email: nwnukwide@gn.apc.org

Women's Aid for Peace
476 Manchester Rd. East, Little Hulton, Manchester 28
Email: +44-161-799-7066

Women for a Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific
c/o 89 Great Russell St, London WC1B 3PS
Email: 44 20 7637-2249

Women for World Disarmament
44 Upland Road, London, SE22 (EF
Email: 44 208 299-0352

Women in Black-UK
C/o The Maypole Fund, Box 14072, London N165WB
Tel: +44-20-7482-5670
Email: Wib-uk@gn.apc.org
Website: http://wib.matriz.net/

Women’s Federation for World Peace
43 Lancaster Gate, London W2 3NA
Tel: 44 207 7230721
Fax: 44 207 77242262
E-mail: wfwp@talk21.com

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
8 Gordon Mansions, Torrington Place, London WC1E 7HE
Ph #: 44 (0) 207 436 5639
Fax #: 44 (0) 207 436 5637
Email: ukwilpf@hotmail.com
Website: http://ukwilpf.gn.apc.org/

Womens Network for Peace and Freedom
16 Broad Nook Close
Leicester
LE3 9SF
UK
E-mail: zinthiya@yahoo.co.uk

Women's Nuclear Test Ban Network
82 Colston St., Bristol 1
Email: 44 117 955-3574

NGO CONTACTS FOR NORTHERN IRELAND

Irish School of Ecumenics
Issues: conflict prevention and peacebuilding. The school believes women to have been in the fore of challenging sectarianism, but to have often been excluded from the decision making process. Through education and train, the school hopes to give women the skills they need to become further involved in reconciliation and conflict transformation.
48 Elmwood Avenue, Belfast BT9 6AZ
Ph #: +44 28 90 38 27 50
Fax #: +44 28 90 38 2750
E-mail: cathy@irishschool.demon.co.uk

Northern Ireland Women’s Coalition
Issues: human rights, equality and inclusion in the peace process and government. We are a political party, working to transform the conflict by challenging traditional thinking in Northern Ireland and seeking to promote women's participation in all aspects of public life.
50 University Street, Belfast BT 7 1HB
Ph #:++ 44 28 90 232 100
Fax #: ++ 44 28 90 240 021
Email: info@niwc.org
Website: www.niwc.org

Northern Ireland Women's European Platform
Primary interest in matters of importance to women, ensuring participation and debate to facilitate and increase women's contribution in social-economic and political agendas, domestically and international.
53 Elmwood Avenue
UK-Belfast BT9 6AZ
Tel: +44.1232.68.22.96
Fax: +44.1232.68.21.85
Email: niwep@onyknet.co.uk

Peace People
224 Lisburn Rd, Belfast BT9 6GE
Ph#: +44-28-9066-3465
Fax#: +44-28-9068-3947
E-mail: peacepeople@gn.apc.org
Website: www.globalgateway.com/peacepeople

Women Together for Peace
Issues: strengthen the voice of women and to create opportunities for open and honest discussion as a means of building trust, improving understanding and appreciating difference.
62 Lisburn Rd, Belfast BT9
Ph#: +44-28-9031-5100
Fax#: +44-28-9031-4864

Women into Politics
109-113 Royal Avenue
Belfast
BT1 1FF
Tel: +44 2890 243363
Fax: +44 2890 237884
email: info@womenintopolitics.org

Women's News
Women's Exchange and Information Group
29 Donegall Street., Belfast, BT1 2GQ
Ph #: 44 232 322823
Fax #: 44 232 438788
Email: womensnews@dnet.co.uk

UNITED NATIONS CONTACTS


United Kingdom Committee for UNICEF
Africa House, 64-78 Kingsway, WC2B 6NB London
Ph#: (44.20) 7405.5592
Fax#: (44.20) 7405.2332
Email : info@unicef.org.uk
Website: www.unicef.org.uk

United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) National Committee for the United Kingdom
Locations of chapters of National Committee
(cities): Edinburgh, Stratford-on-Avon. Yorkshire, Northern Ireland
Planned new chapters: Cambridge, Kent, South West, Wales.
"Quarry End", 15 Stanbridge Road, Downend,
Bristol BS16 6AW
Ph #: + 44 117 9571446
Fax #: + 44 117 9573641
E-mail: S_G_Perry@compuserve.com Kathleen or Douglas@armitagek.freeserve.co.uk


GOVERNMENT CONTACTS

Department for International Development (DFID)
Conflict and Humanitarian Affairs Department (CHAD)
DFID, 20 Victoria Street, London SW1H 0NF
Tel: 020 7023 0000
Fax: 020 7023 0019
Email: enquiry@dfid.gov.uk  
Website: http://www.dfid.gov.uk/mdg/gender.asp

Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO)
Conflict Prevention Team
Conflict Issues Group
International Security Directorate
King Charles Street
London SW1A 2AH
Tel: 020 7008 2491
Fax: 020 7008 3910
Email: Global.Pool.Enquiries@fco.gov.uk

Department for Education & Head of National Machinery Employment
Sex and Race Equality Division (SRED)
Gillian Shephard (Ms.)
Tothill St. London, SW1H 9NF
Ph #: (44-171) 273-6249
Fax #: (44-171) 273-4906
E-mail: INFO@DFEE.GOV.UK.

Women and Equality Unit, Department for Trade and Industry
10 Great George Street, London
SWIP 3AE, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Ph#: (44-171) 273-6249
Fax: (44-171)273-4906
Email: info.womenandequalityunit@cabinet-office.x.gsi.gov.uk
Website: www.womenandequalityunit.gov.uk

NEW YORK PERMANENT MISSION

Permanent Mission of the United Kingdom to the United Nations
One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, 885 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA
Ph#: 212 745 9200
Fax#: 212 745 9316
E-mail: uk@un.int
Website: www.ukun.org