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2005 Events
Middle-East Gulf Regional Learning Institute for Women's Leadership
November 18-21, 2005
The Women's Learning Partnership for Rights, Development, and Peace (WLP) and the Collective for Research and Training on Development-Action (CRTD.A) convened the Middle East-Gulf Regional Learning Institute for Women's Leadership and Training of Trainers from November 18-21, 2005 in Beirut, Lebanon. Twenty-seven women's rights activists and leaders of women's groups from Bahrain, Iraq, Yemen, Egypt, Syria, Morocco and Lebanon took part in the Institute. Participants from Palestine were not able join the Institute because of security restrictions in their region. Participants were selected based on the extent and diversity of their outreach within their respective countries, their ability to mobilize other individuals or organizations around women's struggles for gender equality, and their familiarity with training activities. The training and facilitation team included leadership trainers from Morocco, Lebanon, Syria and Egypt.
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Regional Learning Institute for Women's Leadership in Central Asia
August 24-27, 2005
Women’s Learning Partnership (WLP) together with its regional partner convened a Central Asia Regional Learning Institute for Women’s Leadership from August 24-27, 2005 in Shymkent, Kazakhstan. NGO leaders, journalists, and human rights activists from five countries – Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan – participated in the Institute, which consisted of a week-long intensive skills development program in participatory leadership, interactive facilitation, persuasive communication, and effective advocacy campaign development.
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Regional Learning Institute for Women's Leadership in Sub-Saharan Africa
February 21-25, 2005
Twenty-five women from eight African countries met in Calabar, Nigeria for the Africa Regional Learning Institute for Women's Leadership and Training of Trainers. Co-organized by Women's Learning Partnership (WLP) and BAOBAB for Women's Human Rights, the five-day Institute aimed to strengthen participants' capacity to become better trainers and advocates in empowering grassroots women to become effective decision-makers in their families, communities, and societies. Participants were from Cameroon, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. Among them were Vabah Gayflor, Minister of Gender and Development in Liberia, and Hafsat Abiola, President of the Kudirat Initiative for Democracy in Nigeria.
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WLP Convenes Transnational Partners Meeting in Bangkok
October 25-26, 2005
Women’s Learning Partnership (WLP) convened its 2005 Transnational Partners Meeting in Bangkok, Thailand from October 25-26, 2005, immediately preceding the 10th AWID International Forum. WLP partners from 13 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East attended. The focus of this strategy meeting was to further define the structure and identity of the WLP Partnership, and to strategize on ways to build our collective capacity and to ensure the future sustainability of our partnership model.
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A Shared Vision for Change: Women and Legislative Reform in Muslim-Majority Societies
November 17, 2005: Women leaders from Muslim-majority societies discussed strategies for the creation of egalitarian communities and reform of family law in Muslim-Majority Societies based on women's capability to choose. The panelists included Mahnaz Afkhami, Zainah Anwar, Asma Khader, Rabéa Naciri, and Azar Nafisi. The dialogue was a collaboration between WLP and the Dialogue Project at John Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies.
Reflections on the International Women's Movement: 10 Years After Beijing
May 10, 2005: Four leading international women's rights activists presented an intercultural dialogue on the status of women in a fast changing world, and discussed the challenges presented by the new technological, economic, cultural, and political realities. Panelist Joanna Kerr finds hope in the situation, "Going forward at this time of intense turmoil...we need a surfeit of hope and inspiration. That, and the knowledge that feminists a hundred years ago could never have dreamed of the successes so many of us enjoy today." Panelists discussed the current status of women globally and the international women's movement in light of the tenth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women and the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action adopted at the conference.
Leading to Change: Eliminating Violence Against Women in Muslim Societies
March 1, 2005: Women have been systematically deprived of knowledge and skills that might help them to become better equipped to protect themselves against violence, including knowledge of the existing laws, religious texts, positive cultural resources, international injunctions on human rights, and the demands made by other women for rights in their community and elsewhere. In the WLP Symposium, speakers will address major challenges to eliminating violence against women and girls and discuss grassroots, national, and regional measures needed to raise awareness, initiate reform legislation, and create synergy for ongoing efforts to prevent violence and to promote women's human rights.
Violence Against Women: A Human Security Perspective
November 21, 2005: "Violence Against Women: A Human Security Perspective", a special session at the Middle East Studies Association 2005 Annual Meeting, provided a forum for scholar/activists from Muslim-majority societies to address major challenges to eliminating violence against women and girls from a human security perspective and to discuss grassroots, national, and regional measures needed to raise awareness, initiate reform legislation, and create synergy for ongoing efforts to prevent violence and to promote human rights of women. Violence against women, a manifestation of the historically unequal power relations between men and women, remains one of the primary obstacles to empowering women and achieving peace and security for all.
