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The Joint Organization of Nordic Women’s Rights Associations (; NKS) was an umbrella organization for the bourgeois-liberal women’s rights movement in the Nordic countries. It was founded in Stockholm in 1916.BOOK, Yearbook of International Organizations, 1999, Union of International Associations, 1, 1799, The member organizations included the Fredrika Bremer Association, the National Council of Swedish Women, the Norwegian Association for Women’s Rights, the Danish Women’s Society, and the Icelandic Women’s Rights Association. The member organizations were also members of either the International Alliance of Women or the International Council of Women. The bylaws were adopted at the Nordic Women’s Rights Congress in Stockholm in 1916 and stated that national women’s rights associations could become members.WEB, Stadgar för Nordiska kvinnosaksföreningars samorganisation,www.doria.fi/handle/10024/84293, 20 June 2022, Its secretariat was hosted by the Fredrika Bremer Association in Stockholm.BOOK, Encyclopedia of Associations: International organizations, 1965, Gale Cengage Learning, 9780810356870, 1547, BOOK, Petersens, Lovisa af, Formering för offentlighet: Kvinnokonferenser och Svenska Kvinnornas Nationalförbund kring sekelskiftet 1900, 2006, Stockholm University, 91-85445-47-9,www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:189925/FULLTEXT01.pdf, The organization became defunct in the 1980s, but the key former member organizations still cooperate through the International Alliance of Women or the International Council of Women.

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