Empowerment

ميثاق المرأة السورية

عشيّة انعقاد مؤتمر موسكو, يشدد ملتقى سوريات يصنعن السلام على النقاط المتّفق عليها في اجتماع ميثاق المرأة السورية الذي تم بحضور أكثر من 70 امرأة من مدن سورية عديدة في دمشق بتاريخ 6 كانون الثاني 2014 على ضوء انعقاد مؤتمر جنيف 2.
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Palestine: In Memoriam: Maha Abu-Dayyeh

"Maha’s passing has left a hole in our hearts but we will continue to struggle for the rights of Palestinian women with greater vigour and commitment."

Article 11: feminists negotiating power in Egypt

Faced with unequal power relations at the negotiating table and authoritarian consolidation, a member of the 50-committee explores how feminist voices achieved leverage when drafting the 2014 Egyptian Constitution to include article 11.

Why Jineology? Re-Constructing the Sciences Towards a Communal and Free Life

By Gönül Kaya

Gönül Kaya is a journalist and representative of the Kurdish women’s movement. This article is the transcript of her speech at the Jineology Conference in March 2014 in Cologne, Germany.

انطلاق راديو السوريات

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5 Palestinian Women Who Shone in 2014

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From the corner of a dark room in besieged Gaza, from the merciless highways of the West Bank, or an independent film set in Jordan, these 5 Palestinian women stood up, stood out and made a difference in 2014.

Afghanistan: Uphill struggle for female aid workers

Afghanistan: Up to 90 percent of women in parts of Kabul cannot rent a house, open a bank account, inherit money or vote because they don’t have ID cards. The Norwegian Refugee Council's unique female only intervention team is helping households headed by women, while other NGOs struggle to recruit female staff.

The Midnight Email

By Doaa Abdelaal

I still feel the teargas' effects on me... my eyes and my nose are on fire, the voices of people are coming from different sides “wash your eyes with Pepsi”, and the voice in my head “but my face will be sticky”. I still check my Twitter timeline and search for my friends and colleagues tweets or the face book updates; recalling the unspoken code: as long as you are tweeting or facebooking then you are safe and hopefully secure.

Feminist Movement Builder's Dictionary

Bangladesh: How Birth Certificates Help Fight Child Marriage

Birth registration can play a crucial role in reducing child marriage, but this depends on enforcing existing laws and having comprehensive systems in place to register major life events, including deaths, marriages, adoptions and births. A ministerial conference of Asia-Pacific countries confronted this issue last November.