Women's Rights & Gender Working Group

Working Group Meeting - Cairo 2008

Objectives

- To make proposals to the EMHRN with regards to gender mainstreaming and specific actions for promotion and protection of women’s rights.
- To be a watch dog to ensure gender mainstreaming within the activities of the Network as well as on the organisational level of the EMHRN and its member organisations.
- To give expertise to the EMHRN on gender issues (women’s rights, parallel discrimination in the North and in the South in relation to migration etc).

Visit the EMHRN Gender website HERE

Activities

The WGs current project consist in organising bi-annual workshops with the participation of the main networks in the region working on gender issues and women’s rights as well as generalist human rights NGOs aimed at discussing, monitoring and implementing the following:

1. An updating of the successful and widely diffused EMHRN report on women’s rights and advocating for the recommendations.
2. Production of a training kit on gender mainstreaming to be used by local NGOs.
3. Two sub regional training courses in gender mainstreaming.
4. Monitoring of gender mainstreaming within the EMHRN organisations and executive bodies.
5. Monitoring of gender mainstreaming of EMHRN activities.
6. Producing policy recommendations on key issues relevant to gender equality in the region.

WG Members

	Organisation	Name	Participant Email
	Collectif 95 - Maghreb Egalité	Alya Cherif Chammari	Email
	Association Européenne pour la défense de droits de l’Homme (AEDH)	Kristiina Kouros	Email
	Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies (MIGS)	Christina Kaili	Email
	TAPRI Mediterranean Studies Project	Tuomo Melasuo	Email
	Ligue des droits de l Homme	Nicole Savy	Email
	ADALAH, The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel	Sawsan Zaher	Email
	Mouvement franco-libanais SOLIDA	Wissam Al Khoury	Email
	Association Démocratique des Femmes du Maroc (ADFM)	Oumnia Alaoui	Email
	Association Marocaine des Droits Humains (AMDH)	Atika Ettaif	Email
	ACSUR – Las Segovias	Nerea Craviotto	Email
	Kvinna Till Kvinna  Foundation (KTK)	Saba Nowzari	Email
	Kvinna Till Kvinna  Foundation (KTK)	Sara Lhådö	Email
	Association Tunisienne des Femmes Démocrates (ATFD)	Khadija Cherif	Email
	Human Rights Centre, University of Essex	Fernne Brennan	Email
	Researcher / Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS)	Amal Abdel Hadi	Email
	Damascus Center for Theoretical and Civil Rights Studies Delegate	Roua Essa	Email
	Comittes for the Defense of Democracy Freedoms and Human Rights in Syria (CDF)	Mona Fadel	Email
	EMHRN	Magali Thill	Email
	AFTURD	Radhia Ben Haj Zekri	Email
	SOS Femmes en détresse	Meriem Belala	Email
	Centre de documentation pour les droits des enfants et de la femme	Fatima Karadja	Email
	Arab Women Organization of Jordan	Laila Harmarneh	Email
	Researcher / European Feminist Initiative	Lilian Hall	Email
	Researcher / Association Démocratique des Femmes du Maroc (ADFM)	Amina Lemrini	Email
	Researcher / Syrian Women League	Nawal Yazigi	Email
	Researcher / Social Development and Gender Equality Policy Center (SOGEP)	Ceren Isat	Email