Presenters outline the underlying principles of the Women Living Under Muslim Laws international solidarity network, including in what ways its feminist structure allows for dialogue and exchange while respecting – and celebrating – the vast diversity of its networkers. Why was WLUML created? How has it responded to changing political circumstances over the past 25 years? And what are some of the different strategies we use to achieve our common goals?

This workshop would highlight and bring together domestic workers organizations from around the world, to share experiences, analysis about the conditions, challenges and opportunities for organizing in this sector globally.

The session will discuss mainly the “discrimination” of lesbians and women sex workers within the region of Fiji. The main issues that will be discussed is the contributing factors of embedded culture, religion and political judgment that deters the movement [EGP] from making contact and working closely with this marginalized community.Regional strategic plans can be formulated and neighboring regional groups can be formed to assist one another in formulating a forum where there is a more dive

The Yogyakarta Principles are a revolutionary document summarizing international law with respect to sexual orientation and gender identity. An “Activists’ Guide” will be used to: present them in a plain language format, offer best practices for mobilizing, link them to activism such as women's rights, and provide cross-cultural reflection on strategies.? present them in usable language? offer best practices for mobilizing? link them to activism such as women’s rights? provide cross-cultural reflection on strategies

Three girls' and women's rights organizations from Ethiopia and India will share their successful strategies of working with adolescent girls and discuss challenges that they have faced in balancing the divergent needs and demands placed on them by existing societal power structures, civil society environments within their countries, and expectations of donors with which they work.

En 2006, en Oaxaca, México, inició un movimiento popular que ha sido de los más importante en la historia del país, con la finalidad de instalar un gobierno popular. En este proceso las mujeres hemos sido protagonistas y actualmente estamos trabajando unidas en diferentes temas de derechos humanos y desarrollo.

Afghan women have been depicted in a variety of ways, ranging from oppressed “victims of the burqa” to heroic “social actors”. Through an interactive panel, this session will examine the complexity of Afghan women’s movement for empowerment and emancipation before the Soviet invasion to its current struggles today. While exploring the history of Afghan women’s agency and resilience, we move beyond the stereotypical view of the women as helpless victims under the Taliban regime, well-circulated in the mainstream Western media, to attesting to their resistance at various junctions in time. This assertion is not, however, meant to detract from the gendered problems and discrimination most women faced or the suffering of war, conflict, and displacement which they had to endure. In this session, we will highlight that the women who comprised the movement constantly challenged the various injustices and inequalities in their society, employing various strategies appropriate to the situation and the possibilities at hand

Drawing from the experience of community-based women’s groups working in the area of gender based violence in Canada, Ghana and Swaziland, this session is designed to share lessons from working across borders and to encourage critical reflection with others so that we may begin to articulate alternative models and principles for North-South collaboration built on the principle of solidarity.

This will be a session that is designed and facilitated by women activists involved in the labour and social movements in Cape Town, South Africa. The session will be designed in a way which allows participants to collectively analyze the experiences of women activists within movements. It will share the story of Building Women's Activism in Cape Town as an example of a grassroots feminist process directed towards challenging sexism and patriarchy within movements

An interactive panel in which 4 key rural women's activists reflect on the challenges facing the collective mobilisation of rural women in South Africa over the past 3 years

The session will be lead be a facilitator who will be responsible for time management as well as keeping track of the session according to selected Goal & Objectives. The panel will be consisting of three panelists and each will have their pre selected topics. The panel will be consisting of three panelists and each will have their pre selected topics. The topics will cover three selected objectives and that is the followings: 1. Afghan women challenges and constrains due to culture & custom through out history 2. Sharing experience of Afghan women on the challenges for having a united movement 3. Learning from the others experiences all around the world for leading a united movement

Third Wave commissioned a report that documents the importance of feminist youth leaders in shaping the feminist movement. This session will provide space to hear about the impact of these groups on social movements as well as explore ways to more effectively fund this cutting edge work in the future.

Ontario ended the use of religious laws in family dispute arbitration in Ontario because of a successful and diverse movement-building campaign led by women's equality organizations. What can be learned from this experience as we work globally to ensure women's rights in the face of a variety of attacks on them , including increased fundamentalisms?

Five leading sexual and reproductive rights organizations in Mexico will use a talk show format to present the multi-tiered activism strategy that they have employed since 2000 and which contributed to the passage of landmark abortion reform in Mexico City in 2007.

We would like to make a presentation on the rich experience of women’s movement in Algeria through the different stages of its history and propose new strategies for women’s movement both at national and global levels.

OWFI functions in a war-torn society where killing women is part of the ruling parties' political agenda. Building a movement needs both aspects of social mobilization and lobbying towards legislative reform. In the more peaceful Kurdish north, OWFI lobbies towards legislative reform that ends honour-killings and eradicates Sharia laws; while in the war-torn Iraq of the center and south efforts focus currently on creating a women-friendly egalitarian youth movement based on poetry and the arts.

The session is a panel discussion entitled “The Plight of Women Under Military Rule in Burma". The panel aims to increase more awareness about the situation of the women in Burma and consolidate the support from the international women’s groups and community to bring change and restoration of democracy and peace in Burma.

The ?Conversations for a difference? that are to take place in this meetingwill generate ideas that FEMNET and its partners can use to develop andstrengthen the links between different levels of activism in its futurework. The session will be interactive and enable participants to tap intothe collective intelligence of the group on how we can move this agendaforward based on the knowledge and experiences of the people that willattend the meeting.

The policy of cooperation promulgated by Women in Black has contributed to the building of a stable peace policy in the Balkans region. By moving the problems of violence against certain minority / margin groups into the context of permanent peace building , - by transforming discontent into creative acts - WiB activism leads to a communion of different policies , continually creating new approaches and forms of activism based on WiB values.