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9 April 2024
Bridging Positions, Building Trust:  Women Peacebuilders & Security Actors

ICAN, in partnership with the Permanent Missions of Norway, Sweden, and Canada, the United Kingdom Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office (UKFCDO), the Ministry of Gender, Child and Welfare of South Sudan, the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC), and the National Transformational Leadership Institute (NTLI), convened a 1.5-day workshop to discuss how to strengthen community security as a localized, transformative approach for sustainable peace.

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25 March 2024
Operational Guidance to Establish and Enhance the Protection of Women Peacebuilders (Arabic)

Stemming from the report, “Protecting Women Peacebuilders: The Front Lines of Sustainable Peace,” this document provides operational guidance for states and multilateral institutions to protect women peacebuilders. This document is also available in English, Farsi, and Turkish.

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5 March 2024
Protecting Women Peacebuilders: The Front Lines of Sustainable Peace (Arabic)

This report distills the range of threats to women peacebuilders, analyzes existing protection mechanisms, and provides guidance to protect women peacebuilders. This report is also available in English, Farsi, French, Spanish, and Turkish. See related operational guidance on how to establish and enhance the protection of women peacebuilders here.

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9 April 2024
Bridging Positions, Building Trust:  Women Peacebuilders & Security Actors

ICAN, in partnership with the Permanent Missions of Norway, Sweden, and Canada, the United Kingdom Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office (UKFCDO), the Ministry of Gender, Child and Welfare of South Sudan, the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC), and the National Transformational Leadership Institute (NTLI), convened a 1.5-day workshop to discuss how to strengthen community security as a localized, transformative approach for sustainable peace.

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WHRDs

Egypt: Travel ban and assets freeze for Azza Soliman

Posted on by Lauren Mellows

Azza Soliman, well-known WHRD, lawyer and Center for Egyptian Women’s Legal Assistance (CEWLA)’s board of trustees head, was banned from travel. Azza was on her way to Jordan to participate in a training for Musawah’s movement when she was informed that she is banned from traveling based on a judicial order issued on November 17th, 2016. Azza […]

Statement from the Regional Coalition of Women Human Rights Defenders in Middle East and North Africa

Posted on by Lauren Mellows

Find the original statements in Arabic and English on the WHRD MENA website. Stay tuned for further statements made in solidarity with Nazra for Feminist Studies. Human Rights In Egypt: An Unbreakable Will On the 20th of March 2016, Nazra for Feminist Studies issued a statement confirming that they are under investigation in Case 173, which is known by […]

Trial of witnesses to killing continues in Egypt

Posted on by Lauren Mellows

This information was originally published by Amnesty International Women’s rights defender Azza Soliman and 16 other people who witnessed the killing of Egyptian activist Shaimaa Al-Sabbagh in a peaceful march forcibly dispersed by security forces are due in court for their second hearing on 23 May. They are charged with illegal protest and could face up […]

Prominent Woman Human Rights Defender to be kept in custody in Egypt

Posted on by Lauren Mellows

This update is from Nazra for Feminist Studies (Egypt). Update: Egypt – Prominent Woman Human Rights Defender (WHRD) and Lawyer Mahienour El-Massry appeal is Adjourned and to be Kept in Custody El Raml Misdemeanor Court in Alexandria governorate adjourned today the session of WHRD and Lawyer Mahienour El-Massry along with 9 other activitsts to May 31st, 2015 […]

Prominent Egyptian Lawyer Declared Defendant for Giving Testimony on Killing of Shaima ElSabbagh

Posted on by Lauren Mellows

Update March 31, 2015: Despite a grievance submitted to the court to list Azza Soliman as a witness instead of a defendant, she officially remains a defendant. The first court session will take place on April 4, 2015. 23 March 2015Originally published by Nazra for Feminist Studies Prominent Egyptian Lawyer and Woman Human Rights Defender (WHRD) Azza […]

Press Release: Put protection of women human rights defenders into practice

Posted on by Lauren Mellows

(New York, 9 March 2015) International Women’s Day was marked today by two United Nations events in New York and Geneva highlighting the ongoing threats, risks and attacks against women human rights defenders, despite the existing State obligations to ensure their protection and to create an enabling environment for their work. The event in New […]

ICAN and partners at the 59th Commission on the Status of Women

Posted on by Lauren Mellows

What would the UN Peace Operations Panel recommend if it were led by women, civil society organizations and local actors living in conflict? Beijing +20 Action Plan, Section E. Women and Armed Conflict, Parallel Workshop Monday, March 9 10:30am-12pm Guild Hall at the Armenian Convention Center Cosponsored by Nonviolent Peaceforce, Women Graduates-USA, International Federation of […]