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= Creating Resources for Empowerment in Action = Creating Resources for Empowerment in Action (CREA) is human rights organization in New Delhi, India. The feminist group works with different movements and groups to improve rights for women and girls. The organization also works to represent sexual and reproductive freedom for all humans.

CREA was founded in 2000. The organization works nationally and internationally to support issues such as: human rights, gender, sexuality and sexual rights, and violence against women.

Mission and Vision
The mission of CREA is to "build feminist leadership, advance women's human rights, and expand sexual and reproductive freedoms."

CREA's vision "envisions a more just and peaceful world, where everyone lives with dignity, respect, and equality."

Theory
Believing that women and girls do not have the social freedom or power to demand rights, CREA understands that women face violence, discrimination and exclusion based on sexual attributes.

By utilizing feminist platforms, CREA seeks to change oppressive cultural norms and political structures. They believe it will empower women to take control of their bodies, decisions and rights.

Outcomes

 * Women's ability to make informed decisions about their lives. This includes rights related to sex and the body and challenging power structures.
 * An increase in social activists and feminist leaders.
 * Global change in perception surrounding women's rights.

CREA Initiatives and Assistance
CREA has four current initiatives and four past initiatives that advance feminist voices.

Past Initiatives

 * New Voices, New Leaders
 * Training program for women in mid-level leadership roles in South Asia.
 * Expanding Discources
 * Building alliances and dialogues on women's global rights, addressing sexual violence and sexuality.
 * Public Education and Advocacy
 * Setting out to inform South Asian immigrant women of their rights in the US.
 * Creative Learning
 * Using creative learning styles to teach influencers about policy and change on different levels.

Current Initiatives

 * Strengthen Feminist Leadership
 * Programming to influence young and marginalized women to take roles in leadership.
 * Advance Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
 * Empowering women to make informed decisions about their body and sexual rights like consent.
 * Prevent Violence Against Women and Enhance Women's Security
 * Influence democratic practices to ensure safety and peace for women.
 * Increase Voice and Visibility of Marginalized Women
 * Advancing the voices of women through activism and social change.

Technical Assistance
CREA works with outside organizations to promote a rights-based approach to their policies.

To do this, CREA helps in planning assistance, trainings, translation of issues, implementing practices and visits.

Publications
To spread knowledge to the parties interested in CREA and their platforms, the organization has publications in English and Hindi.

Some topics are: sexuality, reproductive health, gender and human rights.

CREA makes all publications available on their website and by mailing them to different organizations.

Recent English Publications

 * Arrow for Change- Women With Disabilities: Disabled, Sexual, Reproductive (2017)
 * This publication speaks to the sexual and reproductive health of people wit disabilities, a topic that is often overlooked.
 * Dancing on the Edge (2012)
 * An internal review of CREA and how to continue support throughout the movement.

Recent Hindi Publications

 * Naarivaadi Aandolan Ke Karyakartaaon Ke Liye Shabdkosh
 * CREA translated the Feminist Movement's Builder's Dictionary into Hindi.
 * Yaunikata Evam Gender: Ek Prashikshan Guide (2008)
 * A training manual for organizations on sexuality trainings.

#AbortTheStigma
This campagin was created to promote conversations about safe and legal abortion. It seeks to normalize the practice to eliminate the stigma and shame surrounding abortion.

#NotJustMyWork
This campagin seeks to share the way human rights applies to sex workers. It has helped gather sex workers to claim their rights and benefits.

Organizational Partners
CREA seeks to partner with different levels of partners. These partners range from grassroots organizations to donors and government officials. They also work with professional organizations that focus on similar ideals (i.e. violence, disability, sexual health, LGBT rights, etc.) CREA is passionate about working with activists at international and local levels as well.

EMpower: Grantee Partners
EMpower is a foundation that works with global philanthropy focusing on at-risk groups. Supporters invest in organizations such as CREA.

EMpower and CREA
In its 6th grant with CREA enables CREA to standardize the organization. It will advance the curriculum, fundraising and communication efforts of the organization. This will also help with global expansion of the program.

Sexual Rights Initiative (SRI)

 * Beginning in 2005, CREA has partnered with SRI. SRI is apart of the United Nations Human Rights Council. This partnership seeks to increase participation of global activists to expand ideas of gender rights. Together they produce reviews of human rights situations in multiple countries.

Voices Against 377
CREA works with this organization to actively argue against the Indian Penal Code Section 377. This section makes same-sex relations criminal charges.

Action Plus: A Coalition for Rights, Education, and Care in HIV/AIDS
CREA is a founding member of this organization. It networks 12 different organizations to promote issues surrounding HIV/AIDS. Together they advocate for comprehensive packages for people affected with HIV/AIDS.

"Article evaluation" 2/22/18: "2018 Women's March"


 * Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?
 * Everything in the article is directly related to the topic. However, the writing style and the frequent reference to "Power to the Polls" was quite distracting and made me lose focus on the goal of the article which was information about the march.
 * Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
 * The article is somewhat neutral, however, nothing that is surrounded by politics can ever be neutral. The information and facts are neutral except for in the section called "Pussyhats" where the author uses the word "actually" and it makes the section feel more political that neutral. With that being said, it does not have a liberal or conservative bias which was refreshing to read.
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
 * There are no viewpoints from people who did not march or protested the march, which seems like enough of a voice to not be represented. In the "response" section the author only included a quoted tweet from the President. That leaves out a lot of other responses that could be important.
 * Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article?
 * The citations are done well. The links work and the source relays the same information as the article.
 * Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?
 * Each fact, sub one, was referenced correctly and reliably. The information comes mostly from news outlets that reported on the march. These are typically neutral sources being jornalism but sources like the New York Times are proven in the past to be somewhat biased. The one claim not properly cited was about Impeachment Marches.
 * Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?
 * All information was timely to the march. But, there could have been more information about the conversations being held at the march and what speakers and celebrities showed out for the events.
 * Check out the Talk page of the article. What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?
 * The talk page surrounds sharing images, some hateful comments and edits that have been made and updating numbers for the march.
 * How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects?
 * The article is rated It is a part of the WikiProjects: "50,000 Challenge" which improves any article about the US. I cannot find on the page where the rating is located. I know it should be there but maybe I just can't find the right place to look.
 * How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class?
 * This Wikipedia discusses the topic in a more factual way than we have discussed in class. In class we told personal stories and evaluated their effectiveness where the article just listed numbers and places and some reasons it happened.

Selecting and Article-- Creating Resources for Empowerment in Action I will be helping add to the CREA page because I think resources and empowerment is important for praxis in feminism. Becuase the page simply has a lack of information I will try to add more information about it's founding, the events they put on and hopefully some pictures. Here are the links I have found so far. http://www.empowerweb.org/global-reach/country/india/creating-resources-for-empowerment-in-action-crea https://issuu.com/awid/docs/power_of_investing_mdg3_midterm_summary http://cwgl.rutgers.edu/publications/145-resources/weebly-site