Mary Robinson, United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights, supporting our conference in 2001
....All human rights programmes with a gender component should include an assessment of the situation of widows and their access to economic and social rights. My office is aware of the need for legal redress for rights violated during conflict situations, and for all women to have access to land, property, pensions and health insurance. Widows belong to all ages. They may be elderly women, but many are young mothers and there are also child widows… The stigma of widowhood can affect not only widows but also their children.
WRI Fighting Fund Partners
Ashish
Is a small group of women who support widows to claim their legal rights in Hyderabad / Secunderabad and try to provide them with a means of livelihood in an environment which is very hostile to women who live on their own.
Some of their recent cases are outlined here.
Astha
Which supports Ekal Nari Shakti Sangathan - the Association of Strong Women Alone - with has over 3000 rural members, many of whom are widows, others are divorced, abandoned or separated women. Some of their successful actions are outlined here.
WiDO
In Nigeria has set up a project which sends its vanguard team to villages to negotiate with a widow’s husband’s kin as to her rights to home, children and livelihood. They are greatly aided in this by the existence of a bill prohibiting discrimination against widows and widowers. The main provision of the bill has been translated into a simple illustrated booklet in the local language – details of this are given here.
Also
AWEC (Afghanistan) 
WOP (Uganda)