Creating Resources for Empowerment in Action (CREA) is an organization based in Delhi and the United States that promotes women's human rights and sexual rights for all people. They focus on increasing access to information and resources, providing leadership training, and advocating for social and policy changes to support women in the global south.

CREA was founded in 2000 in India and in 2001 in the United States.

Projects

CREA organizes a number of international workshops and conferences promoting women's leadership and sexuality and gender rights.

Some examples of the workshops and institutes they organize:
The Feminist Leadership and Movement Building Institute

a week-long course "designed to strengthen feminist leadership, strategies and collective power for social transformation in Africa".

1st Institute -- 2008, in Entebbe, Uganda

2nd Institute -- April 2010, co-sponsored with Akina Mama wa Afrika in Kampala, Uganda.

The Global Sexuality, Gender and Rights Institute

1st Institute -- February 2007, in New Paltz, New York

New Paltz, New York

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4th Institute: Exploring Theory and Practice -- June, 2010, in Istanbul, Turkey

The Disability, Sexuality and Rights online training workshop

People

CREA's co-founder and Executive Director is Geetanjali Misra

Geetanjali Misra

Geetanjali Misra is a speaker and writer about sexuality and women's rights in South Asia, and a public advocate for gender justice. She is the Executive Director of CREA, a women's rights NGO based in New Delhi, and president of the Women's Initiative for Gender Justice, a watchdog group...

, who also directs the Sexuality and Rights Institute in India.

CREA has a staff of 20, and is supported by a Board of Directors in both executives in both India and the US, including Sashwati Bannerjee, Bishakha Datta

Bishakha Datta

Bishakha Datta is an Indian journalist and film-maker, best known for her work documenting the role of women in different aspects of Indian society...

, and Shohini Ghosh

Shohini Ghosh

Shohini Ghosh is the Zakir Hussain Professor of media at the AJK Mass Communication Research Center. She is an essayist on popular culture and a documentary filmmaker.- Early life and education :...

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