Category: Press Releases

In conjunction with the International Day of Human Rights, tens gathered for morning and evening marches organized by the Libyan Women’s Peace Platform (LWPP) and led by activists, politicians, and academics across Libya on December 10 calling for the full participation and representation of women in the transition and in the long-term future of Libya. The […]

2-13th March 2009 For the third consecutive year, Karama partners placed Arab women center stage at the United Nations, where Karama’s delegation made multiple interventions at the 53rd Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in New York. Addressing the 2009 CSW themes of equal participation in decision-making at all levels […]

Karama’s policy paper, fact sheet, and press release presented its solutions to the lack of net growth of women’s seats in governments noted between 2007 and 2008 in the Arab region, giving it the lowest global standing with regard to women’s equal representation in decision-making. Karama organized formal and informal communications and interventions at CSW […]

At the 53rd session of the Commission on the Status of Women, Karama and the UN focused special attention on the pursuit of equal roles for women and men in decision-making at all levels. Nowhere is this pursuit more paramount than the Arab region, where women hold just 9.1% of government seats. As Karama is […]

Karama partner Azza Kamel of ACT in Egypt was selected to present an oral statement pertaining to CSW53’s priority theme of equal sharing of responsibilities between men and women with particular regard to HIV/AIDS and childcare on behalf of the Western Asia Caucus. The statement that follows was delivered to governments present at the annual […]

‘KARAMA’ WOMEN LEADERS CALL FOR INCREASED REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN IN POLITICS AND DECISION-MAKING IN THE ARAB REGION For the third consecutive year, women activists and leaders have joined together as Karama, a movement across the Middle East and North Africa to end violence against women – a movement which has doubled in size and strength […]

The need to address the dire situation of female refugees in Arab states is prompted by the aggravated suffering which they endure, and which calls for the evocation of three fundamental rights derived from the principles of international humanitarian law: the right of refugees to return to their original homeland, the right to be compensated […]

Thirty-three activists from Morocco, Egypt, Jordan, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Somalia convened in Rabat, Morocco, in December 2008 for a groundbreaking Regional Workshop on the Terminology of Violence Against Women. While some women used the term “victim” when referring to women who had experienced some form of abuse, others preferred “survivors of violence.” Some participants […]

Karama held its first national workshop in Cairo in 2005. It brought together 35 Egyptian NGOs to discuss the problem of violence against women in Egypt, what Egyptian civil society has been doing to address it until now, and how the new Karama approach might amplify these efforts. Since that first meeting, Karama’s focus on […]

In November 2008, a Karama delegation of 15 women traveled to Cape Town, South Africa, to attend the AWID International Forum and to hold a panel entitled “Karama Movement in the Arab World: Ending Violence on Our Own Terms.” The delegation represented Karama partners and staff members from Morocco, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Algeria, Somalia, […]