The Sisterhood Is Global Institute, an international NGO with Consultative Status to the United Nations, was founded in 1984. The Institute spun off from the book Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology, compiled and edited by Robin Morgan [Doubleday/Anchor; reissued in a 1996 edition by The Feminist Press at CUNY (New York), and in Spanish as Mulheres del Mundo (Vindication feminista /Editorial Hacer, Madrid, 1993)]. The groundbreaking anthology contains commissioned articles by women from 80 countries, as well as global/national statistics on women's status. At publication, Morgan organized the first ever Global Feminist Strategy Meeting. During that assembly, the late Simone de Beauvoir (France) and Morgan (USA), together with women from Barbados, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Finland, Fiji, Greece, Italy, India, Kuwait, Libya, Mexico, Nepal, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Palestine/Israel, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Sri Lanka. Thailand, and Zambia, founded The Institute as the first international feminist think-tank and as an organization pledged to visionary yet pragmatic action in support of women's rights, freedoms, and power. Original plans called for the Institute to rotate location/personnel every five years. Accordingly, The Institute spent its first five years based in New York under the Executive Directorship of Karen Berry; the next five in New Zealand, benefiting from leadership by former NZ Member of Parliament Marilyn J. Waring; it then moved to Maryland, USA, under Mahnaz Afkhami (Iran), and thence to Montreal, Canada, with Greta Hofmann Nemiroff at the helm.

Among its other activities, the Institute pioneered the first Urgent Acton Alerts regarding womenís rights; the first global campaign to make visible women's unpaid labor in the census; and the first human rights manuals (in 12 languages) specifically for women in Muslim societies.

As of March 2004, The Sisterhood Is Global Institute is currently in transition, to be lodged permanently in New York.

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