“Women do not represent women in my country. They represent the voices of the men, the families that surround them, and their political party: but not women. They are not feminists,” according to Basma Soudani, from The League of Tunisian Female Voters in Tunisia, as we sat down for an interview.
Soudani and a group of practitioners, policy makers and experts involved in minority rights and participation within the context of constitution building processes, have just spent two full days at a conference on “Including minorities and marginalized groups in constitution building processes” in The Hague on 28-29 October, 2013.
Organized by International IDEA’s Constitution Building - and Diversity Programmes, with support from the Government of Norway, the objective of the conference was to capture and distil practical knowledge gained from successes and failures, strategies of engagement, and lessons learnt regarding ensuring participation of minorities and women in constitution building processes, and designing constitutions to protect marginalized groups and challenges relating to rights and representation of minorities and marginalized groups in implementing constitutions.
We invite our users to read the complete article published October 30th 2013
“Women do not represent women in my country. They represent the voices of the men, the families that surround them, and their political party: but not women. They are not feminists,” according to Basma Soudani, from The League of Tunisian Female Voters in Tunisia, as we sat down for an interview.
Soudani and a group of practitioners, policy makers and experts involved in minority rights and participation within the context of constitution building processes, have just spent two full days at a conference on “Including minorities and marginalized groups in constitution building processes” in The Hague on 28-29 October, 2013.
Organized by International IDEA’s Constitution Building - and Diversity Programmes, with support from the Government of Norway, the objective of the conference was to capture and distil practical knowledge gained from successes and failures, strategies of engagement, and lessons learnt regarding ensuring participation of minorities and women in constitution building processes, and designing constitutions to protect marginalized groups and challenges relating to rights and representation of minorities and marginalized groups in implementing constitutions.
We invite our users to read the complete article published October 30th 2013
