Claiming Equal Citizenship

The Campaign for Arab Women’s Right to Nationality

Mauritania Launches Equal Citizenship Campaign

Association des Femmes Chefs de Famille (AFCF), launches a campaign in Mauritania to advocate for equal rights to nationality for men and women.

Continue Reading | Posted by christina on November 10th, 2006

Campaign Launch Podcast #3 of 6: Amina Lemrini, Executive Committee Member of ADFM

Filed under: Activities, Events

Amina is the Executive Committee Member of Association Démocratique des Femmes du Maroc (ADFM) in Morocco. In this audio clip, she discusses ADFM’s role in the efforts to amend Article 6 of Morocco’s Nationality Code.

Continue Reading | Posted by christina on November 9th, 2006

Gender, Citizenship and Governance: A global source book

Filed under: Research, Articles

This volume brings together case studies of citizen action aimed at giving voice to women’s needs and concerns, carving out spaces for equal participation of women and men in governance, and improving accountability and responsiveness of governance institutions to poor women’s interests.

Continue Reading | Posted by christina on November 6th, 2006

A State that Recognizes and Respects the Rights of Women

Until and unless women become complete citizens of their societies, the world will continue to hurtle towards destruction and misery. The relationship between women and their respective states is fundamental to the viability of every country. A State that recognises and respects the rights of women as full citizens is a State with a future. Do the honorable thing and recognize, respect and protect the citizenship rights of all women in your country.

Patricia McFadden
Spelman College, Zimbabwe

Posted by WLP on November 6th, 2006

Raise Awareness

All Muslim countries should raise awareness regarding women’s rights. Then train their perspective countries women to change laws in their countries where we are given rights as equals to men in our society. Believe in yourselves, raise awareness, fight for your rights…

Hosi Karzai
Afghanistan

Posted by WLP on November 6th, 2006

Lebanon Re-Launches Citizenship Campaign

Our Lebanese colleagues have informed us that following a brief suspension of campaign activities as a result of the July-August conflict in the region, they have re-launched their citizenship campaign.

Continue Reading | Posted by christina on November 6th, 2006

شهادات - لبنان تعيد إطلاق حملة الجنسية

Filed under: Languages, Arabic

أخبرتنا زميلاتنا اللبنانيات بإعادةإطلاقهن للحملة التي تنظمنها من أجل الجنسية، بعد توقف قصير لأنشطة الحملة نتيجة للصراع الذي عرفته المنطقة في فترة يوليوز وغشت

Continue Reading | Posted by marion on November 6th, 2006

Support partners in their struggle

We are together to support partners in their struggle for adovcating efforts to amend nationality laws.

Mohamed Nur
Excellence Center for Training and Researches, Sudan

Posted by WLP on November 3rd, 2006

Women are citizens

Women are citizens too!

Shaden Abdul-Rahman
Jordan

Posted by WLP on November 3rd, 2006

Campaign Launch Podcast #2 of 6: Lina Abou-Habib, Executive Director, CRTD-A

In this podcast, she discusses campaign-related activities from Bahrain, Egypt, and Lebanon and details how each country campaign started at the same place, but faced different challenges, and have differing success stories to tell.

Continue Reading | Posted by christina on November 3rd, 2006

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