Tawakkul – Yemens Mahatma Gandhi-I Yemen vil vi bygge alt på et ligestillingsfundament. Ikke bare mellem kønnene, men også mellem etnicitet, religion, race - for det handler om medborgerskab. Men ligestilling mellem mænd og kvinder...
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Unge forskere fra den arabiske region viser stigende interessere for kønsforskning, og deres forskningsprojekter er på ingen måde mindre sofistikerede end vestlig forskning, når det kommer til metode og teori. Dette er blandt resultaterne af rapporten “Mapping Young Scholars’ Research on Women in Public Life in the MENA Region: A State of the Art Report“ som blev præsenteret under den anden konference for Nordisk-arabisk forskningsnetværk om kvinders empowerment, køn og politik, afholdt i Fez, Marokko.
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KVINFO administrerer fonden Dialogue and Cooperation on Gender and Women’s Rights, hvis formål er at støtte samarbejdet mellem civilsamfundet i Danmark og den arabiske verden.
Fonden støtter projekter, der sigter på at fremme kvinders rettigheder og position i samfundet samt debatten om kønsrelaterede emner i Mellemøsten og Nordafrika. Projekterne skal bestå af et partnerskab mellem mindst én partner i den arabiske verden og mindst én partner i Danmark.
Fonden støtter projekter med budget på mellem 5.000 og en million kroner.
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16/05/2012 09:28
Reem Leila from alahram.org presents what people want to know about the potential first ladies. Read about the writer, the women's rights activist, the Brotherhood supporter, the environment activist and the modest gynaecologist at weekly.ahram.org
16/05/2012 09:09
Intense debate on personal freedoms renewed recently in Morocco after a young woman wearing a short modern dress in a Rabat market was assaulted by people described as Salafists.
Witnesses told Magharebia the girl was stoned and beaten because she was wearing clothes that were too revealing in the eyes of the assailants.
Read the full article at magharebia.com
16/05/2012 08:17
Egypt’s liberal Free Egyptians Party (FEP) declared its support for the calls by women’s rights organizations and NGOs , which called for anti-harassment laws, an Egyptian online news website reported on Monday.
The party said it stands against “the phenomenon of sexual harassment” and called for the passing of a law criminalizing the act, Egypt’s Bikyamasr news website reported.
Read the full article at alarabiya.net
16/05/2012 06:45
On 9 May 2012, Manal al-Sharif was awardedthe Havel Prize for Creative Dissent at the Oslo Freedom Forum in Norway. This came shortly after al-Sharif was honored as one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in the World at a Gala in New York City. Such events have given rise to a pattern: just as numerous pictures and videos of activists attending various conferences and receiving numerous awards surface, waves of criticism pour in. Their motives are viewed with suspicion, worthiness is questioned, and a movement’s progress is reassessed.
Read the full article at jadaliyya.com
09/05/2012 12:39
A court decision on April 22, 2012, cancelling a ministerial order barring women from entry-level jobs at the Justice Ministry is an important victory against legally-sanctioned discrimination in Kuwait, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch urged the Kuwaiti government to act on the decision, to guarantee women equal access to all public jobs, and to amend or repeal gender-based discriminatory provisions from all its legislation, according to an article from Human Rights Watch.
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