Working Group on Women's Rights & Gender

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)

 

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







WG Members

Human Rights League Nicole Savy
Adalah Sawsan Zaher
Greek Helsinki Monitor Nafsika Papanikolatos
Tunisian Association of the Democratic Women  Leila Hamrouni
Committee for the Respect of Freedom and Human Rights in Tunisia Fatma Bouamaied
Sisterhood is Global Institute Lina Alqurah
Collective 95 - Maghreb Equality Alya Cherif
Democratic Association of Moroccan Women Rachida Tahri
Moroccan Assocation for Human Rights Atika Ettaife
ACSUR - Las Segovias Magali Thill
Amman Centre for Human Rights Studies Manar Al-Nithami
Tampere Peach Research Institute Tuomo Melasou
Damascus Center for Theoretical and Civil Rights Studies Mariam Haddad
Algerian League for Human Rights Yamina Raho