WLP Now Trilingual on the Web

Greetings! Bonjour! Ahlan wa sahlan! Last November, Women’s Learning Partnership launched our new and expanded French and Arabic language websites to accompany our revamped English language website. Information on WLP’s eighteen partner organizations, leadership and advocacy programs, multi-lingual publications, and events is now more accessible to a much larger audience.

The Resources section offers statistics on the situation of women around the world, as well as the details of laws currently in use. The Islamic Family Laws page, previously available only in English, particularly benefited Lebanese and Jordanian grassroots women participating in the Training of Trainers Institute in December. An aggregated chart allowed the participants to compare laws regulating the minimum age of marriage and polygamy in their own country to the laws in place in other countries. They use this tool to show that family laws are not uniform across the Islamic world and to advocate for legislative reform.

For months translators, editors, website technicians, and content uploaders worked together across three continents, reflecting the truly transnational and collaborative spirit of WLP.

To view our websites or learn more about WLP, visit http://www.learningpartnership.org. Be sure to select your language of preference at the top.