URGENT
- CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
AWID Young Women’s Institute on
Challenging
and Resisting Religious Fundamentalisms
November 18th-21st
2007, Istanbul, Turkey
Extended
Deadline: September 27th
2007- For applicants from the Middle East, SE Asia, the Pacific , Russia
or Central Asia ONLY
Association
for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) is an international, feminist,
creative and intergenerational membership organization working for women's
rights and gender equality. http://www.awid.org
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS:
Are you a young woman
working for women’s rights in the context of religious
fundamentalisms? If so, we welcome your application to a Young
Women’s Institute on Challenging and Resisting Religious Fundamentalisms from
the 18th-21st of November in Istanbul,
Turkey.
The Institute is part
of AWID’s (the Association for Women's Rights in Development) multi-year
initiative to create a better understanding of religious fundamentalisms and
women's human rights. This initiative aims to produce research on the issue
across religions and regions, and to create new resources to support women's
rights organizations resisting and challenging fundamentalisms.
The Institute will
provide a unique opportunity for young women to:
- Share,
explore and understand how fundamentalist projects work, grow and
undermine women’s human rights across different religions in different
countries, regions and contexts;
- Discuss
effective strategies by women’s rights advocates to challenge
fundamentalist projects, and brainstorm strategies that could be used by
young women;
- Review
and provide feedback on the preliminary findings of AWID’s research on
this topic, and help shape AWID’s ongoing work on young women’s rights and
religious fundamentalisms.
This Institute will allow participants to explore the issues in depth whilst at the same time enabling participants to hone their skills, articulate their own visions, and work collaboratively on strategic and cutting-edge responses to this area of women’s rights work.
The Institute will be conducted in English, though provision may be made for translations into French and/or Spanish and/or Arabic, depending on the needs of the participants accepted to attend the Institute.
To be eligible to attend this Institute you must:
Be ages 18-29
Have at least 2 years experience working on gender
issues, women's rights or feminist activism (voluntary or employment),
preferably also with experience working with young women or youth activism;
Be working on women's rights issues which are directly
affected by religious fundamentalisms and able to share your analysis about
this impact as well as existing or proposed responses led by young women;
Be willing to work with AWID after the institute and make
a commitment to participate in any follow-up activities.
Cost: Full
scholarships to cover travel and accommodation are available to selected
participants at the discretion of AWID. However, all participants will be
expected to fundraise to pay a registration fee of $75US. The
registration fee will NOT be waived.
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