Empowerment

The Inter-African Committee on Traditional Practices (IAC) will hold a 3-day symposium on female genital mutilation (FGM) for religious leaders in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire from Tuesday September 25 to Thursday 27, 2007.
We are proud pleased to announce congratulate that Global Fund grantee, Pinar Illkkaracan, co-founder of Women for Women's Human Rights in Turkey is for winning the 2007 recipient of the Gruber Women's Rights Prize.
The film festival was held in May 2007 to "create a written and oral history of women in the cinema industry" with the intention of maintaining and improving relations between Turkish and foreign women film makers by bringing them together.
Call for applications: Nonviolence Education and Training (NVET)
La formation à la non-violence fournit aux organisations de la société civile (Civil Society Organizations – CSOs) des compétences et des concepts essentiels à la construction de la paix.
La jeune réalisatrice libanaise Nadine Labaki signe un joli film qui parle de la condition des femmes dans une société très rigide.
"Denunciation is not enough. When a press release cannot be published in any newspaper, how can information circulate?"
La journaliste tunisienne Souhayr Belhassen, 63 ans, est la première femme présidente de la Fédération Internationale des ligues des droits de l'homme. Elle est aussi la première personne issue du monde arabe à occuper ce fauteuil.
A Movement-Building Institute (November 19-22, 2007), Johannesburg
Collected tributes to writer, researcher and activist Bina Srinivasan.
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