Empowerment

Plan of Action - Senegal 2006

Over 50 women participated from 22 countries - Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Canada, Egypt, Gambia, Iran, Iraq, Israel-Palestine, Malaysia, Mali, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, Senegal, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tanzania, UK, and USA. Many dozens more contributed to the PoA through regional and country-specific meetings that preceded the Senegal meeting.

Plan d’Action – Senegal 2006

En juillet 2006, des « networkers » actives du réseau international de solidarité – Femmes sous lois musulmanes (WLUML) – se sont réunies à Dakar au Sénégal pour élaborer notre quatrième plan d’action (PA). C’est le cadre analytique qui guidera nos stratégies et activités dans les prochaines années.

WSF: Secular women’s activism in contemporary Egypt

International: Partnering for change: movement building in the 21st century

At the World Social Forum in Nairobi, Women’s Learning Partnership (WLP) will present an interactive panel and dialogue with women’s rights activists from Africa and the Middle East who will discuss strategies to strengthen social movements.

International: News from the Feminist Dialogues

This meeting will be pushing for a transformative look at democracy that questions the role of women in political systems including the political parties/coalitions dominating the Kenyan scene; and democracy at the personal and interpersonal level.

Bangladesh: Salma Sobhan Memorial Lecture

The Salma Sobhan Memorial Lecture was delivered at the National Museum's auditorium as part of the 20th founding anniversary celebration of Ain O Salish Kendra, a legal rights organisation. Salma Sobhan was one of the nine founders of the Kendra.

Bangladesh: Text of Salma Sobhan Memorial Lecture

"Agency, Inequality and Human Rights" by Amartya Sen.

China: Female Imams a tradition in Chinese mosques

Female imams guide others in worship and are the primary spiritual leaders for the women in their communities.

International: Feminist and women's studies resources

This book review journal features books of interest to feminist and women's studies not published in English and regularly reviews books on FGM.

International: Feminism beyond East and West - new gender talk and practice in global Islam

In this new book, Margot Badran poses the questions, "Islamic feminism. What is it? Where did it arise? From within or from without? Is it "legitimate"? What are its aims?"