The organization has a clear priority toward the fight for human rights,gender equality and women's rights,with an experience of 12 years giving specialized therapeutic services to women in GBV situations and their children,promoting awareness raising and prevention actions in the community and formal education frameworks,professional trainings on gender equality topics as well as advocacy projects from local to global level.Member of the Women' Council of Barcelona and coordinator of its Gender Based Violence Working Group,member of the National Council of Women of Catalonia and part of its delegation to the United Nations CSW for the last 2 years.It's also part of the Experts Group of the 2030 Feminist Agenda and lately it has launched and promote the Feminist Europe campaign.
The Women's Center AlThouri Silwan is a pioneer in the implementation of grassroots activities that help women realize their rights, enable them to become active citizens, and improve the society's perceptions of women. There are 3 basic programs in the centre: 1 - Awareness program aimed at raising awareness in the community. It includes: awareness of women's rights, positive parenting, reproductive health and Palestinian rights in Jerusalem. This program also includes the provision of legal consultations. 2. Cultural program aiming at enhancing Palestinians’ awareness of their culture and customs. 3. The Economic Empowerment and Humanitarian Assistance Program, which focuses mainly on the economic empowerment of women through training, mentoring and support. The centre helped many women create their own businesses (DJ services, sound systems, shops, handicraft exhibitions, restaurants, etc.) The main objective is to fight gender based violence and early marriage, as well as to raise awareness on women’s rights.
Syrian Women Debate: aimed to training 30 Syrian women who are active in civil society organizations, public and private institutions in various Syrian cities to provide them with the theoretical and practical basics of debate and public speaking Pink Hug: focused on defining gender-based violence and relating it to reproduction health, and the expected role from health care providers regarding lessening such violence Anti stereotyping: aimed to highlight the stereotypical image of Syrian women in the media and society by creating a new and different media content and integrating youth and men into women's issue Open Up: aimed to encourage adolescents to change their lifestyles and think out of the box in order to build new relations with different persons, and enrich their reflections
- Capacity building of women especially in rural areas on their rights; - Promote the integration and membership of rural women in professional organizations and within NGOs (women's union, associations, etc.) - Mentoring and training of women entrepreneurs; - Assistance, training and support to young women graduates to integrate them into the professional life and to encourage their participation in socio-economic development at local, regional and national levels; - Implementation of the principle of fair trade for women's activities in rural areas.
- Awareness campaigns targeting marginalized groups on the importance of the exercise of the right to vote. - The project "Women Ambassadors for civic education of illiterate women living in rural areas" - Dialogues with rural women to formulate recommendations for submission to the National Constituent Assembly. - Monitor the various elections that took place in Tunisia after the revolution, taking into account the gender approach.
'The Human Right to Privacy: A Gender Perspective', February 2019. This report of a consultation on gender issues arising in the digital era and their impacts on women, men and individuals of diverse sexual orientations, gender identities, gender expressions and sex characteristics was undertaken as part of the work of the Thematic Taskforce on 'Privacy and Personality' established by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy. The full report is at Annexe 2 of the Special Rapporteur's report to the Human Rights Council and can be found here: https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Privacy/SR_Privacy/2019_HRC_Annex2_GenderReport.pdf Feedback is sought to identify any issues relating to privacy and gender not brought forward in the submissions received.
- Constant coordination with the High Council for Women as a key partner in the implementation of the political empowerment program for women. - Participating in the training program of Jusour Center for Studies and Development and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung - Libya office which aims at promoting women's participation in the economic development. During this training Kenzi Association presented a working paper entitled "Impact of the Libyan Economy on Libyan Women – Al Aziziya as a case study - Participation in the training program ‘’women peacemakers’’
This platform is part of the Axis 1 "Strengthening the capacities of equality actors" of the Priority Solidarity Fund "Women for the future in the Mediterranean" funded by the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs and led by the European Institute of the Mediterranean, in the framework of the project “Developing Women's Empowerment” labelled by the Union for the Mediterranean.
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