Proposals Women's Rights from February, 2013
Rwanda: Promoting Women's Rights Through Social Media
i wish to install a computer laboratory whrere will be 20 computers , in order to provide awareness young women and girls about the use of computers and photography in advocating their rights, through this work we intend to challenge the socio-economic, cultural practices that discriminate against women ang girls in our country.photography will help them to document and expose the issues and violence women and girls experience in our society.
Nepal: Against Sexual Harrasment
Teasing girls, bullying them and passing nasty comments are quite common in rural school areas. Most young girls are victims of physical abuses and verbal assaults. We hope to make youth aware about legal provisions against sexual harassment and girls where they report such cases avoiding social stigma. Schools in Kaski and Baglung now have growing internet use and we empower social networking and make 35 school blogs reaching 1700+ students.
Nigeria: Citizen Media Capacity Strengthening Workshop
A structured participatory capacity strengthening workshop to enhance the capacity of the leadership of thirty women micro financial organizations on informed and heightened use of web 2.0 technologies, mobile phones and mobile applications to expand women’s access to financial services in Lagos. Participants will create and maintain blogs; Twitter and Facebook pages to tell their stories, advocate for increased access to financial services.
Bangladesh: Blogger Training for Human Rights
LEGAL AID CENTER AND FOUNDATION has been campaigning about the GENDER BASED VIOLENCE AND TO CREATE AWARENESS among the general public. RAPE INSIDE THE BUS in INDIA has brought these issues in light. In Bangladesh, rape has become daily affairs and people are not getting any justice. We want to train youths regarding these affairs so that Learned Youth Groups are blogging and they know to how to blog for these Human Rights issue for awareness
Cameroon: Community Blog on Sexual Abuse
This project involves creating a blog which will address the issue of sexual abuse to young girls by teachers in schools. We will go around schools and give lectures about the disadvantages of sexual abuse to the young girl child. Learners would be able to write short articles for the blog and email it to the coordinator of the project. This articles would be edited and published on the blog.
Palestine: Media Monitoring Project
“Global Media Monitoring Project” address a very serious issue and shall record the first precedent in this regard. The aim of the project is to promote communication for social change through; – Building the of Palestinian women’s rights activists in monitoring the representation of the Palestinian women in the local media. – Supporting the Palestinian women to improve their representation in the local media .
Uganda: Girl Child Education Advocacy Among Rural Communities.
There are wide gap between boys and girls concerning education due to bad culture that tend to make female sex inferior to their male counter part.80% illiterates among rural communities are female and because of these there are high level of poverty among women. Employment opportunity therefore belong only to men making female sex almost slaves and because of all these problems,we have risen up to advocate and shout to the top of our voices.
Tunisia: “Sout el tounesya” the Voice of the Tunisian Woman
This initiative is a citizen journalism training project that aims to empower women through digital media and online journalism.I mean by online journalism,blogging in its main forms:articles,videos/audio and photojournalism. The main objective is to give a voice to these women and empower them to advocate for their rights and their local communities through citizen journalism.They will be trained to create blogs and mentored to train other women
Pakistan: Connecting to the world of knowledge
New generation is key to change of the abusive culture to women in form of honour killing, forced and minor marriages, marital rape and domestic violence to disfigure a women body. Connecting the youth to social media will help to sensitize and educate them to know about the women rights as human rights.The proposed project is to bring about a behaviour change through youth advocacy on women rights to end the violence against women.
Malawi: My Life is in Danger
My life is in dander is the name of the campaign that will bring together all rape victims to share the stories online with the aim of giving stiff punishment to rapist as most of the victims do not come open when they are raped since the society of Malawi condemn most rape victims of their dressing(min- skirts or dress). This campaign will urge all parents girls and young women to come open.
