Alliances and Coalitions

Zonta International is proud to partner with organizations and coalitions who share Zonta International's vision of a world in which women's rights are recognized as human rights and every woman is able to achieve her full potential. By partnering with like-minded organizations, Zonta International extends its reach and impact to empower more women and girls around the world to realize their rights.

Coalition to End Violence Against Women and Girls Globally

• The Coalition to End Gender-Based Violence Globally consists of more than 180 organizations whose combined expertise, experience, programmatic work and collaboration with local activists make it a powerful resource and ally on issues related to the prevention of and response to violence against women and girls.
• https://www.endgbvnow.org/ 

ERA Coalition

• The ERA Coalition and Fund for Women’s Equality (ERA Coalition Forward) convenes a diverse alliance of nearly 300 partner organizations across the United States, representing 80 million people. From gender, racial, economic and reproductive justice, partners represent interconnected, intergenerational, and intersectional organization all united under the mission: to advance equally under the law of the United States of America.
• https://www.eracoalition.org/

Girls Not Brides

• Girls Not Brides is a coalition of of more than 1,400 civil society member organizations in nearly 100 countries working collectively to end child, early and forced marriages and unions (CEFMU) so that girls can fulfil their potential.
• https://www.girlsnotbrides.org/

National Coalition to End Child Marriage

• Unchained At Last and Equality Now have convened the National Coalition to End Child Marriage in the United States to bring together organizations and individuals determined to end child marriage in the U.S. The mission of the coalition is to end all marriage before age 18 in the U.S., without exception.
• https://endchildmarriageus.org/

Women & Gender Constituency

• The Women and Gender Constituency (WGC) is one of the nine stakeholder groups of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Established in 2009, the WGC now consists of 54 women’s and environmental civil society organizations, who are working to ensure that human rights and gender equality are firmly anchored in all climate actions under the UNFCCC and to challenge the extractive, exploitative and patriarchal economic model which has resulted in the climate crisis.
• https://womengenderclimate.org/

Women's Empowerment Principles

• The Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) are a set of Principles offering guidance to business on how to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment in the workplace, marketplace and community. Established by UN Women and UN Global Compact, the WEPs are informed by international labour and human rights standards and grounded in the recognition that businesses have a stake in, and a responsibility for, gender equality and women’s empowerment.
• https://www.weps.org/