GEWR+Part+I+Summaries

Desde el Colectivo Feminista Mujeres Universitarias estamos muy emocioandas de poder participar virtualmente en el Foro Social Mundial en términos de Equidad de Género y Derechos de la Mujer.


Dear Megan,

Good to hear that you are planning to action there. We are here from the South feeling very happy that elseswhere some of you action for the women in the world.

We are - the women in the South, very isolated, also very happy to work inside the forest with our women, elder and young to make some thing change in our corner here.

The picture that I sent you bring some images and signs of hope for a new worlds that all women are standing by theirs Love


 * Nancy**

Thank you so much for this message -- when I read it, I realized I would love to hear a story about your daily work - sort of like our living, daily WSF with the people nearest us. Could you share a story or two about your work with the women inside the forest? What are their dreams for change?

Thanks

Nancy

I hope you have some good luck, Megan, on getting press attention to women's human rights. Remember that women around the world use far less of the world's resources than men do and so we have a smaller environmental footprint and we should try to maintain that. Pat, /Patricia Willis, Chair Feminist Caucus of the American Humanist Association

Dear Network Members

Kindly find our profile as an attachment Thanking you in advance

Leonida Odongo(Coordinator)

Ebony Youth and Orphans Support Initiative Kenya

Dear Megan and all,

I am Mavic Cabrera-Balleza, a Senior Programme Associate at the International Women’s Tribune Centre and I am joining you from New York.

I am most excited about the different slants of our work on gender equity and how we can find a link among all of our initiatives and support each other. For example, here in New York, IWTC and a number of international women’s organizations and NGOs are advocating for a stronger gender equality architecture within the United Nations. During the forthcoming session of the UN Committee on the Status of Women (Feb 25th - March 7th), we will be advocating around the issue of financing for gender equality and women’s empowerment. Meanwhile, our advocacy for the full implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security at the national level continues.

Can this online discussion be something like an “inter-movement or inter-issue dialogue” among gender equity activists?

I’ll post my short bio on the wiki so I can tell you more about myself and our work with women around the world.

Looking forward to a lively discussion!

Mavic

During the last couple of months, ICCO has been focusing on UN Resolution 1325. In November 2007, we organised the conference The EU and UNSCR 1325 point 8; Women: from target group to stakeholders. The conference was a joint effort of ICCO & Kerk in Actie and its European sister organisations Church of Sweden, EED, Norwegian Church Aid, HEKS and its European umbrella organisation Aprodev. 25 partners, representing organisations from (post) conflict countries from all over the world, gave recommendations to EU policy makers on the implementation of the Resolution.

At the same time, ICCO contributed to the development of the Dutch National Action Plan, channelling important experiences and insights from our partner organisations to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

ICCO also wants to bring women’s role in peace building to the notice of the Dutch public. We just launched a campaign, which puts a number of ‘strong women’ in the spotlight. You can read more about them and their organisations at:

http://www.icco.nl/delivery/icco/en/doc.phtml?p=news_items&index=1028 Dear Megan,

Thanks for this important information. We are willing to participate in the online discussion and also looking forward to participating in 2009 centralized WSF

The global call for action on our side has been affected by the violence in Kenya. Some of our members are affected and most of our efforts have focused on helping them out. But we have tried to identify some of our members in women's rights areas to take part in the global call to action.

W have almost failed to get financial resources for specific 2008 WSF activities, albeit we having running projects at national level which can be linked to WSF.

Kindly let us know if you come cross possible funders. We really need to facilitate AWEPON members and organize events during 2009 WSF in Brazil

Thanks again

Best regards

Ben.

Dear Colleagues

Rozaria Memorial Trust (RMT) was established in to celebrate local women's leadership and innovation. The Late Mbuya Rozaria Marumisa Dizha 1923 - 2006 was a community heroine, who gave her life to protection of women's rights and providing social support to those in need. she cared for survivors of HIV & AIDS and of violence.

RMT will be undertaking a series of community dialogues on VAW and HIV & AIDS. At the global level, we will contribute to the CSW agenda on financing development. We look forward to extensive sharing with others. -- Nyaradzai Gumbonzvanda (Mrs) Chairperson

Hola queridas companeras y companeros, es importante esta participacion para poder avanzar en los objetivos del milenio y en los procesos de paz en los paises en conflicto, Soy Adriana Gonzalez de la liga intenrcional de mujeres por la paz y libertad WILPF - Colombia. no se muy bien ingles pero estoy en esa labor asi que les cuento que WILPF COLOMBIA require participate in the CWS and has registered a workshop for explain the difficulties facing Colombian women in participating in the processes of peace in Colombia, and make recommendations that Colombian government should consider to improve women’s participation. To implement a political advocacy and empowerment strategy with Colombian women to build alternatives for coping with the internal armed conflict.



Dear ALL,

It is really inspired to know all of you even through email.

I am Damairia Pakpahan (Damai) from Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Since early December I am in New York till end of February 2008. I have been active in the women movement in Indonesia since 1988 when I was a student activist against the dictatorship of Suharto regime and co-founder of RUMPUN (an association of women activists working with and for women domestic worker rights) and Indonesian Women Coalition for Justice and Democracy).

I was gender adviser of Oxfam GB in Indonesia and researcher with Amnesty International, and staff of World Education. Professionally I am working as the gender consultant now with Circle INdonesia (a cooperative consultants for NGOs and civil society).

About WSF, most of the participants from INdonesia is limited to the certain women NGO and NGO working for global justice. It is difficult for outside those circle to be involved in WSF. We do not know how to involve in WSF? Please kindly inform to us about this. Indonesia now in the dillemma about the fate of Suharto as the dictator, we from the activists side urged him to be brought in to trial not only due to his corruption but also due to the human rights abuses (and of course women rights criminal) done by his regime.

I am happy to know you. In sisterhood and solidarity,

Damai Pakpahan