Due to the urgent need to capture the stories emanating from the Arab States, iKNOW politics has been able to provide a great platform for women to connect with each other in the region. We have been bringing women who were involved in the revolutions to the high level missions by different partner organizations. We have been playing a role to both capture the stories and broadcast them through our network and also participate and engage with the ongoing developments.
For the latest on our efforts to bring voices of women in the transition process beyond the revolution you can see here: http://www.iknowpolitics.org/node/41030
We facilitated a meeting between women activists from Egypt and International IDEA’s Secretary General Vidar Helgesen in Cairo. The main themes discussed:
1- Violence against women when demanding their civil and political rights
2- Women expectations and roles in Egypt beyond revolution and in transition to democracy
3- How women are organizing themselves and mainstreaming their demands in new groups
4- Role played in the revolution
5- Moving from unity to diversity
- A brief meeting was held with female members of political party to capture their expectations in this transition process and share their stories through video interviews; point discussed included the messages they want to deliver and the role of women in this transition process. We will shortly have the video online.
- We participated in the UN Women organized seminar on Constitutional Amendments from a gender perspective. We used the opportunity to share the resources available on iKNOW politics networks to women’s groups and organizations at the meeting.
- We conducted detailed interview with prominent women rights activist in Tunisia and Egypt and will continue to do so over the course of the next few months.
- As Saudi Arabia is joining the revolutions we are conducting interviews with one of the coordinators of Baladi Campaign calling for women participation in next municipal election in Saudia. They are: Fozia El-Hani and Dr. Hatoon Ajwad El-Fassi. The interview will help in giving voice to the women activists there.
- We participated in a Video-Conference between women activists from Egypt and international experts on women in transition based in Washington D.C. hosted by National Democratic Institute (NDI).
We have been tirelessly working to make sure we use the power of iKNOW Politics to bring the various actors together and leverage the use of technology and face to face meetings. If you have any suggestions on where else we can support the work that you are already doing we would be more than happy to work more closely with you.
Due to the urgent need to capture the stories emanating from the Arab States, iKNOW politics has been able to provide a great platform for women to connect with each other in the region. We have been bringing women who were involved in the revolutions to the high level missions by different partner organizations. We have been playing a role to both capture the stories and broadcast them through our network and also participate and engage with the ongoing developments.
For the latest on our efforts to bring voices of women in the transition process beyond the revolution you can see here: http://www.iknowpolitics.org/node/41030
We facilitated a meeting between women activists from Egypt and International IDEA’s Secretary General Vidar Helgesen in Cairo. The main themes discussed:
1- Violence against women when demanding their civil and political rights
2- Women expectations and roles in Egypt beyond revolution and in transition to democracy
3- How women are organizing themselves and mainstreaming their demands in new groups
4- Role played in the revolution
5- Moving from unity to diversity
- A brief meeting was held with female members of political party to capture their expectations in this transition process and share their stories through video interviews; point discussed included the messages they want to deliver and the role of women in this transition process. We will shortly have the video online.
- We participated in the UN Women organized seminar on Constitutional Amendments from a gender perspective. We used the opportunity to share the resources available on iKNOW politics networks to women’s groups and organizations at the meeting.
- We conducted detailed interview with prominent women rights activist in Tunisia and Egypt and will continue to do so over the course of the next few months.
- As Saudi Arabia is joining the revolutions we are conducting interviews with one of the coordinators of Baladi Campaign calling for women participation in next municipal election in Saudia. They are: Fozia El-Hani and Dr. Hatoon Ajwad El-Fassi. The interview will help in giving voice to the women activists there.
- We participated in a Video-Conference between women activists from Egypt and international experts on women in transition based in Washington D.C. hosted by National Democratic Institute (NDI).
We have been tirelessly working to make sure we use the power of iKNOW Politics to bring the various actors together and leverage the use of technology and face to face meetings. If you have any suggestions on where else we can support the work that you are already doing we would be more than happy to work more closely with you.