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The Women Human Rights Defenders program at Nazra for Feminist Studies is launching its manual on Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRDs) tailored specifically for an Egyptian context.
The manual includes sections on Egyptian legislation and military verdicts used to constrain public action; regional and international mechanisms that WHRDs can utilize to report violations committed against them; and security tips that can be of special use during perilous circumstances.
Nazra is a partner organisation to KVINFO.
Read more at Nazra for Women's Studies.
In Morocco, women have achieved impressive gains over the past decades, both legally and economically, and the human development index shows clear improvements in a wide range of areas, namely girl’s access to schooling or a decline in maternal mortality.
But why do women in Morocco play such a small part in the political, economic and social arenas?
Read more at Global Arab Network.
For the office in Rabat, Morocco, KVINFO - the Danish Centre for Information on Gender, Equality and Diversity - is looking for a new Programme Adviser.
Deadline for applications: June 3rd 2013.
Read the announcement here.
“One lesson from the 1979 Iranian revolution and the 2011 Arab revolutions is that activists seeking to promote women’s rights, human rights and the transition to democracy must challenge patriarchy from within the Muslim legal tradition.”
So writes Ziba Mir-Hosseini, a legal anthropologist and a founding member of Musawah Global Movement for Equality and Justice in the Muslim Family.
Read more at OpenDemocracy.
To combat the predominant mindset contributing to the failure of women in the workforce, the Qatar Career Fair recently hosted its second lecture, The working women in Qatar: professional aspirations and social traditions.
More Qatari women have university degrees than men, yet female participation in the workforce is only 35 percent, well below the national percentages in developed countries.
Read more at Arabian Gazette.
Algeria
Algeria
Algeria gained independence from France in 1962 after a war with more than one million Algerian victims. A civil war broke out between 1992 and the late 1990s, but since then the political violence has decreased. The country’s president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who came to power in 1999, still faces severe problems such as high unemployment rates, poverty and government corruption.
In the beginning of January 2011 popular protests broke out as a reaction to rising food prices and high unemployment. As a response the government introduced a number of reforms, including price reductions of basic food stuff and lifting the 1992 emergency law.
| Total population (2011 est) | 34,994,937 |
Female population | |
0-14 years Total Female | |
15-64 years Total Female | |
65 years and over Total Female |
| |
| Life expectancy at birth (women) | 76.31 years |
| Fertility rate | 1.75 children born/woman |
| Total literacy rate | 69.9% |
| Total literacy rate among females | 60,1% |
| School life expectancy ( primary to tertiary education) | 13 years |
| Female enrolment in higher education* | 25,87% |
*Higher education is the degree after achieving the high-school diploma
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By Rikke Hostrup Haugbølle and Nadia Zaabi