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"The Centre Culturel de Rencontre Abbaye de Neumünster, Head of the Anna Lindh Foundation's Network in Luxembourg, is organising the "IndignaCtion!" Forum, from 10 to 12 September 2012. Supported by the Anna Lindh Foundation and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Luxembourg, this unique initiative aims to gather Arab Spring Activists and European Indignados as well as actors for change in the fields of economics, politics, culture, art, education and new media from around twenty European and Arab countries..."
The film is the result of interviews An Van Raemdonck made with women's rights activists April 2011 in Cairo. The documentary will also be shown during the Filmfestival 'Elles tournent - Dames draaien', Brussels 20 to 23 Sept. 2012.
Companies allocating fewer than 40 percent of seats on supervisory boards to women could face sanctions, according to a proposal by the European Union justice commissioner.
"A United Nations treaty which provides a set of international standards to improve the lives of millions of domestic workers worldwide has now been ratified by a second Member State, the Philippines, allowing it to come into force next year..."
Government policy must understand and address the role of pornography in perpetuating women's inequality...
"The idea that the West and Middle East have extremely different views on gender equality has gained traction in recent years. However, feminists and progressive activists in the West and the Middle East share many values when it comes to gender equality..."
Title: Gender Equality and Women's Rights In Palestinian Territories Author(s) / Editor(s): Sophie RICHTER-DEVROE (Author) Publisher: European Parliament Year: 2011 Language: English. Description: This note gives an overview of women’s rights and gender equality in Palestine. It introduces the main actors, and then provides information on women’s status in the economic, educational, health, political, legal and cultural domain. It finds that, although advances have been made, women activists need to continue and be supported in their struggle against dual oppression from Israeli occupation and patriarchal control, if women’s rights and gender equality are to be secured in Palestine.
"Marieme Helie Lucas is an Algerian feminist, sociologist, political theorist and author known for her work against religious fundamentalism. Marieme was born in Algeria to a ‘family of feminists’ and had been active in the liberation struggle of Algeria. She founded the Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML) in 1984. The former international coordinator of WLUML, Marieme founded Secularism is a Women’s Issue (SIAWI) in 2005..."
Title: Militant Women of a Fragile Nation Author(s) / Editor(s): Malek Abisaab (Author) Publisher: Syracuse University Press Year: 2009 ISBN-10: 0815632126 ISBN-13: 978-0815632122 Language: English Description: In Militant Women of a Fragile Nation, Malek Abisaab takes a gendered approach to labor conflicts, anticolonial struggles, and citizenship in modern Lebanon. The author traces the conditions and experiences of women workers at the French Tobacco Monopoly. Challenging the prevailing assumptions about culturally inscribed roles for Middle Eastern women, the book highlights traditions of public activism and militancy among rural women that are in turn adapted to the spaces of the factory. Women employed distinct strategies involving kinship, sectarian, gender, and class ties to enhance their work conditions and social benefits. Drawing on extensive ethnographic data, the author convincingly argues that the condition of women can only be explained by exploring the shifting relationship between culture, societal arrangements, and economic settings. Abisaab’s richly detailed work illuminates the impact of class and gender in the transformation of modern Lebanon.
"The role of women in Yemen’s Arab Spring has shocked international observers. In a country where the cultural, political, and economic gaps between men and women are some of the largest in the world, women did not simply ‘join’ the protests but were a leading force behind the cultural evolution that powered the revolutionary movement..."
"WomensRights UN Women signs partnership agreement with the International Olympic Committee to advance gender equality..."
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"The campaign Turn Off the Red Light(TORL), which has by now 55 partners and represents over a million supporters in Ireland, has launched Billboards “Anna was 14” around Ireland, and an accompanying Twitter campaign which generated much public debate.The campaigners chose to focus on the most difficult to accept fact about prostitution: this is the young age of entry into prostitution and the fact that children are being found in situation of prostitution every year..."
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Nazra for Feminist Studies issued a report on the violations committed against women human rights defenders in Egypt in the period from August to December 2011.
Women who address human rights issues generally are at risk because they threaten the gender order. Women who dare to challenge social conventions, whether it is by their mere presence on the streets to chants against the regime or take part in a strike, are subject to sexual violence, threats, and derogatory public accusations aimed at discrediting their character.
"Ramallah, WEST BANK — For decades, Palestinian women seeking to divorce their husbands risked years of miserable, expensive litigation or lengthy domestic battles as they begged their spouses for permission to leave..."
For many Egyptian women, sexual harassment is a daily fact of life, and campaigners say the problem is now reaching epidemic proportions, the BBC's Bethany Bell in Cairo reports.
The author of the best-selling “Finnish Lessons: What Can the World Learn About Educational Change in Finland?” gives us a new Finnish lesson. This one is about the importance of gender equality and how it factors into effective school reform.
"The EU has launched a new programme called Equality Pays Off. It aims at supporting the efforts of companies in tackling one of the major challenges of the future – skills shortage – by promoting equality between men and women, thereby reducing the gender pay gap. The programme offers workshops for companies in all participating countries and a conference in Brussels that will allow for the sharing of good practices and networking on gender equality across borders..."
"Glasgow Women’s Library is a phenomenon. The sole resource of its kind in Scotland, it is celebrating its 21st birthday by commissioning 21 women artists and 21 women writers to create new work inspired by GWL’s library, archive and museum artefacts..."
By most people’s standards, Sweden is a paradise for liberated women. It has the highest proportion of working women in the world, and women earn about two-thirds of all degrees. Standard parental leave runs at 480 days, and 60 of those days are reserved exclusively for dads, causing some to credit the country with forging the way for a new kind of nurturing masculinity. In 2010, the World Economic Forum designated Sweden as the most gender-equal country in the world.But for many Swedes, gender equality is not enough. Many are pushing for the Nordic nation to be not simply gender-equal but gender-neutral..."
"The determination of ordinary women paved the way for revolution across the Middle East. But the promise of the Arab revolutions will be fulfilled only when the women who helped to liberate their nations achieve liberation for themselves..."
"The idea that the West and Middle East have extremely different views on gender equality has gained traction in recent years. However, feminists and progressive activists in the West and the Middle East share many values when it comes to gender equality..."
"More than 7,000 women have attended performances of “Sowaleef Harem” (Women’s Talk) since the play opened to audiences four days ago in the Saudi capital, Riyadh. No men have attended the play, a comedy about four women who accidentally discover that they are married to the same man. Actually, men are not allowed to attend the shows. Unlike television, where Saudi actors and actresses work together, theater remains a gender-segregated field in the conservative Kingdom.
So, the show being performed at the King Fahad Cultural Center is an all-women affair. Only women act in the play, and only women are allowed to attend..."
The Think, Act, Report framework encourages organisations to analyse, act and report on gender equality issues.
Continuous pressure on government from different directions and an increase in the number of women in the Foreign Service provides credible support for the claim that feminism has influenced Icelandic foreign policy.
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