On 2 March 2012, activists and experts from across the world convened by the Women's Learning Partnership For Rights, Development and Peace (WLP), met in New York City to discuss the causes, consequences and other aspects of the revolutions sweeping the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) during 2011. As longstanding dictatorships collapsed, what had appeared as the promise of democratization, an "Arab Spring," seemed to be turning into the perils of chaos, civil war and resurgent authoritarianism, whether secularist-nationalist or Islamist in character.
This documentary film explores the rise of the fundamentalist political movement in the moderate Islamic society of Morocco in the early years of the US War on Terror, prior to the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
A parallel event given by WLP and the Equality Without Reservation Campaign at the 58th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (2014) will explore the endemic deficiency of the Arab region in economic policy-making that ensures gender and economic justice, as demonstrated by past policies that ignored women’s care work and failed to provide support services for care
The Generation Equality Forum (June and July 2021) called for strong commitments by civil society, governments, and individuals to transform structures and systems of power to lead to gender equality. As part of the GEF, WLP joined international allies in making commitments to conduct research and advocacy to promote equality in the family.
