'Karama’ is the Arabic word for dignity, as well as an initiative fueled by a coalition of partners as constituencies to build a movement to end violence against women in the Middle East and North Africa. Karama puts emphasis on women from the ground up, addressing violence as they define it, with solutions of their own design.Read more
The Sindiyanat El Karama is a yearly award discerned by Karama and AWF in appreciation of the role Arab women have played as guardians of dignity, and the great sacrifices they have made in the face of discrimination, danger, and violence. Lubna Hussein from Sudan was recipient of the prize in 2009.
You can get the latest on Karama by following @el_karama on Twitter. Also be sure to check out Hibaaq Osman's blog "News of the Weird" by clicking here.
25 January 2012
Members of the legal team who drafted the alternative electoral law proposed by the Libyan Women’s Platform for Peace (LWPP) are in negotiations with members of the National Transitional Council (NTC) today to resolve disagreements over the Libyan electoral law.
“Our legal team has emerged from discussions with NTC representatives aimed at ensuring the full participation of women in Libya’s public life, “ said Dr. Salah El-Merghani, a member of the legal team supporting the alternative electoral law. “We have had productive negotiations with members of the NTC, but it is clear that Mustafa Abdel Jalil remains the ultimate decision maker in these matters.”
Negotiations are currently centering on three key areas:
24 January 2012
Officials from Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) have approached the legal experts who drafted the alternative electoral law proposed by the Libyan Women’s Platform for Peace (LWPP), and requested their assistance in preparing revisions to the law currently slated for release on 28 January 2012.
The draft law was drafted by a group of elite Libyan legal experts including Dr. Kuni Abouda, Salah El-Merghani, Hadi Buhamra, and Ali Dou.
20 January 2012
The Libyan Women’s Platform for Peace, a movement of Libyan leaders
working with women and youth from around the country and diaspora, has
released a draft electoral law (click here for Arabic version)
that seeks to address some of the limitations of the draft election law
released in January by the National Transitional Council.
The draft law was drafted by a group of elite Libyan legal experts
including Dr. Kuni Abouda, Salah El-Merghani, Hadi Buhamra, and Ali Dou.
The Libyan Women’s Platform for Peace, along with a coalition of other civil society groups, call on all Libyans to reject the recently-issued draft electoral law, which promises only a 10 percent quota for women in the key legislative body that will create a new Libyan constitution.
To voice our strong objection, the Libyan Women’s Platform for Peace is issuing this call to protest and reject the draft election law, and demand a quota of 40%, and no in circumstances less than 30%, for women in the new parliamentary body.
Such a step would be a rejection of women’s great struggle and sacrifice during the February 17 revolution, and of their current demand for full participation alongside their brothers in building a new, peaceful Libya.
Mustafa Abdul Jalil, leader of Libya's National Transitional
Council, praised the discourse around the draft law as a move towards a
