About Us

Who we are

WIN is Intercultural Women’s Network. We are NGO Consultative to the UN ECOSOC and partners with multi-diverse networks locally and globally. We stand for women and girls rights and make their voices be heard. We have brought branches and fields in witch we provide our legislative support and advocacy for women.

WIN'S Mission

WIN’s mission is to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment globally. The organization supports the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action, a UN initiative aimed at promoting women’s rights and gender equality, in the United States and globally. WIN also supports the work of the UN Commission on the Status of Women and convenes global circles of women leaders to promote international cooperation and solidarity.

Our Vision and Principles

Empower women and girls

WIN aims to empower women and girls to have a voice in public forums and connects women and girls across cultures and communities globally and in the United States. WIN's primary goal is to promote greater connectivity and collaboration to address and shape public policy issues.

Building networks

WIN has pioneered a unique approach to organizing, focusing on building networks rather than creating new organizations. WIN's organizing principle is to link existing organizations into stronger networks, increasing cooperation, avoiding duplication, and supporting collective action. This approach enables WIN to amplify the voices of women and girls, avoid redundancy, and maximize the impact of its efforts.

Multi-culturule collaboration and cooperation

By building bridges between organizations and communities, WIN fosters a culture of collaboration and cooperation. This approach allows WIN to reach a broader audience, leverage resources, and create a more significant collective impact.

Gender equality

WIN's work empowers women and girls, promotes gender equality, and shapes public policies that benefit from diverse perspectives and experiences. WIN's innovative approach has made it a leader in promoting women's rights and gender equality

Global movement for change

By connecting women and girls across cultures and communities, WIN helps create a global movement for change, promoting a more just and equitable world for all.

Our Story

The Women’s Intercultural Network (WIN), founded in December 1994 as a non-governmental organization (NGO) in San Francisco, California, aims to empower women and girls to have a voice in their government and economy. WIN has Special Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), which it obtained in 1998.

WIN has been connecting women and girls across cultures, globally and in US communities since 1994 for collective action on the ground and on the internet to pursue our Mission. WIN built the first policy mechanism to implement the Beijing Platform for Action from the 4th World Conference on Women, known globally as CAWA- the California Women’s Agenda. WIN has brought delegations to the UN CSW every year!

Our goal is to create a global women’s network that can function on the ground and electronically across cultural and digital divides for collaboration on mutual concerns.

In 1995, WIN was involved at the 4th World Conference on Women, known as the Beijing Conference, where

40,000 women and girls joined together from 189 countries and agreed on the Platform for Action, a progressive document that was an imperative to advancing their status.
You can find the rest of that part of the story at the Beijing+ Balloon. WIN partnered with Apple Computer and linked them with women leaders at the NGO Parallel Forum in China, who were interviewed daily by Sue Haye on a phone from Cupertino, California. Bella Abzug gave interviews at the beginning and end of that Conference. There was no Telepresence then. Apple had 100 computers in Huairou, China and 80 volunteers who connected women for a global cyber women’s movement.

WIN took the Beijing Platform for Action (BPFA) to California, known globally as CAWA – the California Women’s Agenda, as the first Policy Mechanism to implement BPFA at the grassroots. From there WIN reached out with an initiative to

“CALLING THE CIRCLE OF WOMEN FROM THE US AND UGANDA, AFGHANISTAN, JAPAN AND BEYOND FOR FULL PARTICIPATION IN OUR GOVERNMENTS AND OUR ECONOMIES”