Domestic Organizations and Resources
Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice (ACRJ)
ACRJ is a grassroots community-based organization working work with communities and organizations to advance reproductive justice on a local, state and national level. The organization’s two core strategies are community organizing and movement building.

Black Women for Reproductive Justice
The mission of Black Women for Reproductive Justice is to help Black women and girls realize reproductive justice. The organization seeks to build a grassroots constituency organized to collectively affect changes in public and private institutions, and policies that prevent Black women and girls from obtaining optimum reproductive and sexual health.

California Latinas for Reproductive Justice (CLRJ)
CLRJ is a statewide policy and advocacy organization whose mission is to advance California Latinas' reproductive health and rights within a social justice and human rights framework.  CLRJ strives to ensure that policy developments reflect Latinas’ priority needs, as well as those of their families and their communities.

Center for Genetics and Society
The Center for Genetics and Society (CGS) is a nonprofit information and public affairs organization working to encourage responsible uses and effective societal governance of the new human genetic and reproductive technologies. CGS works with a growing network of scientists, health professionals, civil society leaders, and others. CGS supports benign and beneficent medical applications of the new human genetic and reproductive technologies, and opposes those applications that objectify and commodify human life and threaten to divide human society.

Council for Responsible Genetics
The Council for Responsible Genetics (CRG) fosters public debate about the social, ethical and environmental implications of genetic technologies. CRG works through the media and concerned citizens to distribute accurate information and represent the public interest on emerging issues in biotechnology. CRG also publishes a bimonthly magazine, GeneWatch, the only publication of its kind in the nation.

Generations Ahead
Generations Ahead works with organizations around the country to humanize tomorrow's genetic technologies through stakeholder dialogue today. Generations Ahead brings diverse communities together to expand the public debate and promote policies on genetic technologies that protect human rights and affirm our shared humanity.

National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF)
NAPAWF is the only national, multi-issue Asian Pacific Islander (API) women's organization in the country.  The organization’s mission is to build a movement to advance social justice and human rights for API women and girls.

National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health (NLIRH)
The mission of NLIRH is to ensure the fundamental human right to reproductive health and justice for Latinas, their families and their communities through public education, community mobilization and policy advocacy.

The Native American Women’s Health Education Resource Center (NAWHERC)
NAWHERC, a project of the Native American Community Board, provides direct services to Native women and families in South Dakota and advocates for Native women at the community, national, and international levels to protect their reproductive health and rights. NAWHERC’s activities range from community education to preserve Native culture, campaigns to end violence against Indigenous women, coalition building to fight for reproductive justice, and environmental justice.

Pro-Choice Alliance for Responsible Research (PCARR)
PCARR’s mission is to promote accountability, safety and social justice in bio-medical research from a women’s rights perspective. The organization is made up of activists in the reproductive rights and justice movement, bioethicists, advocates and community leaders.

Reproductive Health Technologies Project (RHTP)
RHTP works to advance the ability of every woman to achieve full reproductive freedom with access to the safest, most effective, and preferred methods for controlling her fertility and protecting her health. Founded on the belief that politics — more than science or economics — prevents new and improved products from entering the market as well as limits women’s knowledge of and access to technologies, RHTP works to ensure that new technologies are developed and introduced with appropriate safeguards, a well-informed consumer constituency, and broad-based public and policy support.

Sistersong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective
SisterSong was formed to educate women of color and policy makers on reproductive and sexual health and rights, and to work towards the access of health services, information and resources that are culturally and linguistically appropriate. The Collective achieves these goals through public policy work, advocacy, service delivery and health education within communities of color on the local, national and international levels.

Women’s Bioethics Project
The Women’s Bioethics Project is the leading nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy think tank dedicated to ensuring that women’s voices, health concerns, and unique life experiences strongly influence ethical issues in health care and biotechnology. 

Women’s Health and Empowerment Center of Expertise, University of California Global Health Institute
The mission of the Women’s Health and Empowerment Center of Expertise is to promote justice, quality, and innovation for women’s health and well-being and eliminate barriers to optimal health for women in California and around the world, and to advance the status of women within their socio-cultural contexts.

International Organizations and Resources
Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism (IPCB)
IPCB is organized to assist indigenous peoples in the protection of their genetic resources, indigenous knowledge, cultural and human rights from the negative effects of biotechnology.

Corner House
The Corner House has aimed to support democratic and community movements for environmental and social justice. As part of its solidarity work, The Corner House carries out analyses, research and advocacy with the aim of linking issues, of stimulating informed discussion and strategic thought on critical environmental and social concerns, and of encouraging broad alliances to tackle them. Includes focus on reproductive and genetic technologies.

We invite organizations and programs from around the world with a gender and science component to send us your web address so that we can link to your site. Please contact Linda Baker at linda.baker@berkeley.edu or Charis Thompson at charis.thompson@gmail.com

Return to Research and Advocacy Areas