As the world continues to watch the wave of uprisings across Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) nations, AWID and other women’s rights organizations around the world, together with our partners in the region, strategize on how to best hold the line to ensure that women’s rights are not jeopardised, while maintaining meaningful spaces for women’s rights activists to actively participate in the transition processes.
Women have been active participants on the front lines of protests and uprisings in the MENA region, and yet following the protests they become invisible from processes of forming new states and are excluded from decision-making roles, responsibilities, and positions in the aftermath of the uprisings.
We invite our users to read the full article published August 2 2013
As the world continues to watch the wave of uprisings across Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) nations, AWID and other women’s rights organizations around the world, together with our partners in the region, strategize on how to best hold the line to ensure that women’s rights are not jeopardised, while maintaining meaningful spaces for women’s rights activists to actively participate in the transition processes.
Women have been active participants on the front lines of protests and uprisings in the MENA region, and yet following the protests they become invisible from processes of forming new states and are excluded from decision-making roles, responsibilities, and positions in the aftermath of the uprisings.
We invite our users to read the full article published August 2 2013