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Project of electoral awareness campaign "Vote for
your future"
By the support of United
Nations Office for Project Services, UNOPS, Baghdad
Women's Association will implement the electoral
awareness campaign project "Vote for your future" during
July 2008, at the aim of disseminating electoral
awareness through supporting initiatives developed by
Iraqi civil society in cooperation with Independent
Electoral Commission.
During the implementation of the project 2000 folders
will be printed, as these folders will include pictures
and graphics illustrates the importance of elections and
electoral rights. The folders will be distributed to
citizens, civil society organizations and partners in
this project. Short audio message will be broadcasted
from Al-Nas Radio, as propaganda for election slogans
and encouraging citizens to participate in electoral
process. In addition to that (20) workshops will be
held, and each workshop include (40) female and male
participants in order to aware and acquaint with
elections, types of electoral systems, main principles
guiding drafting electoral system and ensuring fair
elections. The project will be implemented in some
Baghdad neighborhoods, such as; Al-Amil, Sumar, Al-Mashtal,
Al-Ameen, Al-kamalia, Al-Oubaidi, and Al-Sha'ora.
Raising awareness about
combating
violence against women
In
response to the escalation of violence against women due
to lack of security and non-political stability in the
country, Baghdad Women's Association started, with the
support of National Endowment for Democracy NED, since
April 2008, preparing for the implementation of the
project "Combating Violence against women", aiming at
raising awareness about combating violence against
women.
On May 31, 2008 Baghdad Women's Association started the
implementation of this project which will last until
March 2009, ...
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Rehabilitation, training and creating job opportunities
for deserving women
Due to the bad
conditions of the country, worsening of security
situation and the sectarian conflicts; the economic and
social conditions in the country had been deteriorated
and this situation leads to emerging a large segment of
widows, divorced women and women who lost their
supporters. By the Support of Global fund for Women,
Baghdad Women's Association will implement during the
year 2008 a three-months Project titled "Rehabilitating
and Training Deserving Women who lost their supporters"
aiming at rehabilitating and training (30) women, and
helping them through creating job opportunities enabling
them to improve their economic, social, health and
cultural situation and involving them in the community.
The participants will be trained on hairdressing and
nursing and will be provided by the necessary
requirements, according to the sort of training. In the
end of the project certificates of appreciation will be
submitted to the participants.
Training and
empowering women to obtain the skills of democratic
election process in local and municipal councils
Continuing the
approach of Baghdad Women Association aimed at
developing women abilities and capabilities in all
fields including field of political action and helping
women reaching decision-making centers; BWA began
implementing the project "training and empowering women
to obtain the skills of democratic election process in
local and municipal councils". This project supported by
the Swedish Organization
KTK "Kvinna Till Kvinna",
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Sponsored by Baghdad Women's Association
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