The International Federation of Women Lawyers (IFWL), in Spanish Federación Internacional de Abogadas (FIDA), is an international non-governmental organization (NGO) that enhances the status of women and children by providing legal aid, legal literacy and education programs, and through advocacy, law reform, research and publications.
"[3] Before 1960, Luisa A. Perez Peroso, and Rosalind Goodrich Bates both served terms as president of FIDA.
The association set up the first legal aid program in Ghana in 1985, mainly targeting indigent women and children.
[8] FIDA Kenya was formed in 1985 after the third United Nations World Conference on Women, which was held in Nairobi.
Pamphlets cover subjects such as juvenile delinquency, rights of women, forced and early marriages and the effects of female circumcision.