All-Pakistan Women's Association | All-Pakistan Women's Conference | APWA [Abbr.]

National Council of German Women's Organizations- Federal Union of Women's Organizations and Women's Groups of German Associations, E.V.

United Nations Women's Guild | UNWG [Abbr.]

adrenogenital syndromes, virilizing or feminizing, whether acquired or due to adrenal hyperplasia consequent on inborn enzyme defects in hormone synthesis female:adrenal pseudohermaphroditism | heterosexual precocious pseudopuberty | male:isosexual precocious pseudopuberty | macrogenitosomia praecox | sexual precocity with adrenal hyperplasia | virilization (female)

Definition: A disorder characterized by deliberate weight loss, induced and sustained by the patient. It occurs most commonly in adolescent girls and young women, but adolescent boys and young men may also be affected, as may children approaching puberty and older women up to the menopause. The disorder is associated with a specific psychopathology whereby a dread of fatness and flabbiness of body contour persists as an intrusive overvalued idea, and the patients impose a low weight threshold on themselves. There is usually undernutri ...[+++]tion of varying severity with secondary endocrine and metabolic changes and disturbances of bodily function. The symptoms include restricted dietary choice, excessive exercise, induced vomiting and purgation, and use of appetite suppressants and diuretics.

National Association of Women and the Law

World Association of Women Entrepreneurs [ WAWE | European Association of Women Executives | World Association of Women Business Owners ]

Canadian Women in Communications [ CWC | Canadian Women in Radio and Television ]

The EU presents political demarches, funds programmes aiming at specific problems and discriminations suffered by women of all ages and girls; supports women’s associations, and advocates for their cause, and use a rights-based approach in all its intiatives.

For the purpose of this Regulation, ‘civil society organisations’ are non-State, non-profit making actors operating on an independent and accountable basis which include: non governmental organisations, organisations representing indigenous peoples, organisations representing national and/or ethnic minorities, diaspora organisations, migrants' organisations in partner countries, local traders' associations and citizens' groups, cooperatives, employers associations and trade unions (social partners), organisations representing economic and social interests, organisations fighting corruption and fraud and promoting good governance, civil r ...[+++]ights organisations and organisations combating discrimination, local organisations (including networks) involved in decentralised regional cooperation and integration, consumer organisations, women's and youth organisations, environmental, teaching, cultural, research and scientific organisations, universities, churches and religious associations and communities, the media and any non governmental associations and independent foundations, including independent political foundations, likely to contribute to the implementation of the objectives of this Regulation.

The initiative connects female entrepreneurs throughout Serbia, strengthening local associations and establishing and building the capacity of newly formed associations.

Many women therefore turn to the Association of Business Women in Serbia (ABW), as it has recognised the need to build local organisations to promote women entrepreneurs, as well as to encourage and support the formalisation and official registration of new associations of businesswomen.