The UNDP's Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery has a section devoted to Gender and Crisis. Click here for their key facts and statistics on women and girls in crises.

The bureau's director Kathleen Cravero, who is also chair of the Stop Rape Now group, has an interesting article on tackling rape as a weapon of war. AlertNet has an interview with Cravero here INTERVIEW: U.N. calls for $10 mln to help women in wars and disasters

In a 2008 report, Amnesty International gathered testimonies from girls and women subjected to sexual violence in Democratic Republic of Congo. Amnesty has a page on Women in Conflict.

Writer Eve Ensler also talks about sexual violence in Congo in this article Women Left for Dead—and the Man Who's Saving Them

Women for Women International is a U.S. organisation which helps survivors of war rebuild their lives. It has information, statistics and videos on conflicts from Afghanistan to Congo.

For general information on women and the Millennium Development Goals go to the End Poverty 2015 Millennium Campaign.

British aid agency ActionAid does a lot of work on alleviating poverty among women. Its report Hit or miss? Women's rights and the Millennium Development Goals argues that tackling the barriers that prevent women escaping poverty is crucial to progress in meeting the targets. See also ActionAid's section on women and its International Women's Day page. This factsheet spells out the issues.

For more information on women and poverty visit the U.N.'s Division for the Advancement of Women. It has in-depth reports and a useful introduction to the issues.

There's further background on the website of UNIFEM, the U.N. Development Fund for Women.

For more on microcredit have a look at the Grameen Foundation website.

If you're looking for general information on women and health visit the World Health Organisation. For info on the impact of HIV/AIDS on women visit WHO's page on Gender inequalities and HIV. UNIFEM also has a section on halting the spread of HIV/AIDS.

The United Nations website on Millennium Development Goals has a section on maternal health. Click here for a useful factsheet packed with statistics. They also have an update from the 2008 progress report with maps and charts.

For more information on tackling maternal mortality have a look at the U.N. Population Fund's page Stepping up Efforts to Save Mothers' Lives.