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Panels
WLP regularly presents panels featuring women activists from around the world. These panels provide a platform for discussion and sharing of strategies on topics such as women’s political participation, culture and religion, movement building, and peace and conflict-resolution.
WLP's live panels create opportunities for South-South and South-North dialogue, to ensure that the voices of women from the Global South, particularly Muslim-majority societies, are heard in international debates.
Every two years, longer symposiums take place to address an issue in even greater depth.
Panels Reports
Against All Odds: Women Partnering for Change in a Time of Crisis
March 8, 2007: On the occasion of International Women's Day, WLP premiered a new 25-minute documentary "Against All Odds: Women Partnering for Change in a Time of Crisis," which showcases the perspectives of activists from around the world including Afghanistan, Brazil, Egypt, Morocco, Lebanon, and Uzbekistan.
Fighting the Good Fight: Women’s Rights Activism in a Time of Crisis
March 6, 2007: Women’s rights and activism across the world are being threatened by rising religious fundamentalism, war and conflict, and government restrictions, including legislation that limits activities of civic organizations. While women are disproportionately affected, they are also key agents of change, upholding communities and families, and engaging in peaceful forms of resistance. Women activists This March 6th 2007 featured conversations with women activists from Iran, Jordan, and Nigeria on the topics of ways and means of strengthening the women's movements by building alliances, sharing inter-generational experience and expertise, and developing culture-specific, grassroots-based approaches to empowering women and girls.
Partnering for Change: Movement Building in the 21st Century
January 21, 2007: At the Seventh World Social Forum in Nairobi, Women’s Learning Partnership (WLP) presented an interactive panel and dialogue with women’s rights activists from Africa and the Middle East who discussed strategies to strengthen social movements, particularly the women’s movement, in an era of crisis for civic organizing. Efforts to achieve gender equality, human rights, and social justice are being increasingly challenged by rising extremism and fundamentalism, wars and conflict, poverty, and violence. Activists are overcoming these barriers by working together to devise innovative, context-relevant strategies that will transform power relations and dynamics with the family, community, and society.
Women as Equal Citizens: Advocating for Change in Muslim-Majority Societies
Women's right to equal citizenship is guaranteed by the majority of constitutions in Arab countries, as well as by international law. In many countries in the region, however, women are denied their right to nationality - a crucial component of citizenship. Women in the region who marry men of other nationalities cannot confer their nationality on their husbands or children. These laws undermine women's status as equal citizens in their home countries, preventing them from participating fully in public life. On September 6th 2006, Women’s Learning Partnership convened a panel discussion and launched an international campaign in support of a seven-country regional campaign for Arab women’s right to nationality in Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Morocco.
Faith and Freedom: Women From the Three Abrahamic Religions Talk About Terror, War, and Peace
November 7, 2001
Women leaders explored the common values underlying Christianity, Judaism and Islam, and the role of religion in conflict resolution and violence prevention. They addressed the challenges facing the United States and the international community in the wake of the September 11th terrorist attacks in the U.S. and the need to build a global coalition for peace and tolerance. Panelists included Marian Wright Edelman, Blu Greenberg, Azza Karam, and Mahnaz Afkhami (Moderator).
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In The Aftermath of Terror: Women Leaders Discuss Peace, Justice & Conflict Resolution In A Globalized World
September 24-27, 2001
A Live Interactive Radio Webcast Discussion
This electronic colloqium brought women's perspectives into the discussion of the events and consequences of September 11, 2001.
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Leading to Choices: Women's Leadership and Institutional Change
June 27, 2001
HOSTED BY
The School of Advanced International Studies
at Johns Hopkins University
in collaboration with
The Hagop Kevorkian Center
at New York University
PRESENTERS
Charlotte Bunch - Ayesha Imam - Kumi Naidoo - Aruna Rao
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2001 Events | Panels )
Women Shaping Globalization: A New Feminism for the 21st Century
February 13, 2001
HOSTED BY
The School of Advanced International Studies
at Johns Hopkins University
PRESENTERS
Azar Nafisi (Chair) - Mahnaz Afkhami - Angela Blackwell
Jacqueline Pitanguy - Zenebewerke Tadesse
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2001 Events | Panels )
A Shared Vision for Change: Women and Legislative Reform in Muslim-Majority Societies
November 17, 2005: Women leaders from Muslim-majority societies discussed strategies for the creation of egalitarian communities and reform of family law in Muslim-Majority Societies based on women's capability to choose. The panelists included Mahnaz Afkhami, Zainah Anwar, Asma Khader, Rabéa Naciri, and Azar Nafisi. The dialogue was a collaboration between WLP and the Dialogue Project at John Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies.
Reflections on the International Women's Movement: 10 Years After Beijing
May 10, 2005: Four leading international women's rights activists presented an intercultural dialogue on the status of women in a fast changing world, and discussed the challenges presented by the new technological, economic, cultural, and political realities. Panelist Joanna Kerr finds hope in the situation, "Going forward at this time of intense turmoil...we need a surfeit of hope and inspiration. That, and the knowledge that feminists a hundred years ago could never have dreamed of the successes so many of us enjoy today." Panelists discussed the current status of women globally and the international women's movement in light of the tenth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women and the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action adopted at the conference.
