http://www.learningpartnership.org/blog Making a better world, one idea at a time Fri, 18 May 2012 15:06:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://www.learningpartnership.org/blog/2012/05/cooperatives-prove-a-successful-model-for-women%e2%80%99s-economic-empowerment/ http://www.learningpartnership.org/blog/2012/05/cooperatives-prove-a-successful-model-for-women%e2%80%99s-economic-empowerment/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 19:23:45 +0000 Layla http://www.learningpartnership.org/blog/?p=3442

The unique model employed by FSWW is a stellar prototype for other women’s collectives that strive for economic security and self-sufficiency with social supports and services. ]]> http://www.learningpartnership.org/blog/2012/05/cooperatives-prove-a-successful-model-for-women%e2%80%99s-economic-empowerment/feed/ 0 http://www.learningpartnership.org/blog/2012/04/the-reform-of-the-nationality-law-in-lebanon-one-step-forward-ten-steps-backward/ http://www.learningpartnership.org/blog/2012/04/the-reform-of-the-nationality-law-in-lebanon-one-step-forward-ten-steps-backward/#comments Tue, 03 Apr 2012 22:08:08 +0000 lina http://www.learningpartnership.org/blog/?p=3431

The Nationality Campaign would like to express the need to reform the nationality law immediately.]]> http://www.learningpartnership.org/blog/2012/04/the-reform-of-the-nationality-law-in-lebanon-one-step-forward-ten-steps-backward/feed/ 0 http://www.learningpartnership.org/blog/2012/04/women-informal-labor-mena/ http://www.learningpartnership.org/blog/2012/04/women-informal-labor-mena/#comments Mon, 02 Apr 2012 19:12:48 +0000 lina http://www.learningpartnership.org/blog/?p=3423

The main conclusion is that indicators measure only what is valued in society and exclude women’s work mainly in view of the poor value attributed to it! ]]> http://www.learningpartnership.org/blog/2012/04/women-informal-labor-mena/feed/ 0 http://www.learningpartnership.org/blog/2012/03/history-books-vs-youtube-democratization-and-the-arab-spring/ http://www.learningpartnership.org/blog/2012/03/history-books-vs-youtube-democratization-and-the-arab-spring/#comments Mon, 19 Mar 2012 19:55:25 +0000 marion http://www.learningpartnership.org/blog/?p=3382

Today, YouTube and easily-duplicated digital records are standing neck-to-neck with these official narratives; multiple accounts will live on.]]> http://www.learningpartnership.org/blog/2012/03/history-books-vs-youtube-democratization-and-the-arab-spring/feed/ 0 http://www.learningpartnership.org/blog/2012/03/woman-is-the-future-of-man/ http://www.learningpartnership.org/blog/2012/03/woman-is-the-future-of-man/#comments Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:46:11 +0000 farida http://www.learningpartnership.org/blog/?p=3400

Although women have made great progress on their way to liberation, they still suffer from unequal treatment with men, just because they are women....These anti-women legends of former times play a major role in contemporary cultures. ]]> http://www.learningpartnership.org/blog/2012/03/woman-is-the-future-of-man/feed/ 0 http://www.learningpartnership.org/blog/2012/03/wlp-at-the-56th-csw-in-new-york-sharing-different-ideas-confronting-global-challenges-to-women%e2%80%99s-rights-and-equality/ http://www.learningpartnership.org/blog/2012/03/wlp-at-the-56th-csw-in-new-york-sharing-different-ideas-confronting-global-challenges-to-women%e2%80%99s-rights-and-equality/#comments Thu, 08 Mar 2012 17:07:52 +0000 lina http://www.learningpartnership.org/blog/?p=3391

This year’s 56th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) was convened to address the global issues of “Rural Women’s Empowerment, Poverty Reduction and Rural Development”. This would have been pretty much “business as usual” if it were not for the fact that, since last year’s 55th CSW, the world is rapidly changing, most notably [...]]]> http://www.learningpartnership.org/blog/2012/03/wlp-at-the-56th-csw-in-new-york-sharing-different-ideas-confronting-global-challenges-to-women%e2%80%99s-rights-and-equality/feed/ 0 http://www.learningpartnership.org/blog/2012/02/anybody-can-do-something-for-equality%e2%80%a6-if-they-want-to%e2%80%a6/ http://www.learningpartnership.org/blog/2012/02/anybody-can-do-something-for-equality%e2%80%a6-if-they-want-to%e2%80%a6/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:31:31 +0000 lina http://www.learningpartnership.org/blog/?p=3364

Since the Claiming Equal Citizenship campaign was launched, partners have spent endless hours lobbying politicians. In several countries, the message did get through.]]> http://www.learningpartnership.org/blog/2012/02/anybody-can-do-something-for-equality%e2%80%a6-if-they-want-to%e2%80%a6/feed/ 0 http://www.learningpartnership.org/blog/2012/02/women-technology-sxsw/ http://www.learningpartnership.org/blog/2012/02/women-technology-sxsw/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:53:36 +0000 catherine http://www.learningpartnership.org/blog/?p=3341

Please send your photos related to "women and technology in the Global South" for possible inclusion in our SXSW panel.]]> http://www.learningpartnership.org/blog/2012/02/women-technology-sxsw/feed/ 0 http://www.learningpartnership.org/blog/2012/01/special-rapporteur-rashida-manjoo-palestinian-women/ http://www.learningpartnership.org/blog/2012/01/special-rapporteur-rashida-manjoo-palestinian-women/#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:27:04 +0000 Soraida http://www.learningpartnership.org/blog/?p=3320

Different themes such as feminist methodology for documentation, institutionalizing memory, theory and practice in history, and healing the souls of the oppressed were discussed.]]> http://www.learningpartnership.org/blog/2012/01/special-rapporteur-rashida-manjoo-palestinian-women/feed/ 0 http://www.learningpartnership.org/blog/2012/01/the-journey-toward-women%e2%80%99s-citizenship-rights-getting-there-one-step-at-a-time/ http://www.learningpartnership.org/blog/2012/01/the-journey-toward-women%e2%80%99s-citizenship-rights-getting-there-one-step-at-a-time/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:33:36 +0000 lina http://www.learningpartnership.org/blog/?p=3300

During this sit-in, the demands of women moved from simply the reform of the nationality law to the recognition of women’s citizenship and women’s right to have rights!]]> http://www.learningpartnership.org/blog/2012/01/the-journey-toward-women%e2%80%99s-citizenship-rights-getting-there-one-step-at-a-time/feed/ 0 http://www.learningpartnership.org/blog/2011/12/%e2%80%9cthe-myth-of-evil-women-in-power-when-the-media-participates-in-the-demonization-of-women%e2%80%9d/ http://www.learningpartnership.org/blog/2011/12/%e2%80%9cthe-myth-of-evil-women-in-power-when-the-media-participates-in-the-demonization-of-women%e2%80%9d/#comments Mon, 05 Dec 2011 18:45:48 +0000 lina http://www.learningpartnership.org/blog/?p=3268

My colleagues at WLP shared this disturbing reminder of the common issues facing women in politics, regardless of where they are: How to Hit a Woman – The new anti-Elizabeth Warren ad, and how political attack ads differ when the target is female. (the article appeared in Slate on November 22, 2011) Despite decades of [...]]]> http://www.learningpartnership.org/blog/2011/12/%e2%80%9cthe-myth-of-evil-women-in-power-when-the-media-participates-in-the-demonization-of-women%e2%80%9d/feed/ 0 http://www.learningpartnership.org/blog/2011/11/women-democracy-egypt/ http://www.learningpartnership.org/blog/2011/11/women-democracy-egypt/#comments Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:23:17 +0000 wlp http://www.learningpartnership.org/blog/?p=3234

Democracy is like Pandora’s Box…But that is part of the process…It’s not an easy thing, democracy. We will fight, and we will fight very strongly for it.]]> http://www.learningpartnership.org/blog/2011/11/women-democracy-egypt/feed/ 0