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On July 5, 2008, a member of the Association
contributed in the national conference that
organized by( "Country of Peace" Movement and
the Organization of Iraqi Forum ) in Basra
Governorate – Almarbid Hotel under the slogan
"women participation ensuring security and
peace", as there were active participation of
formal and informal sides. The conference
yielded discussions on violence against women,
women and elections, constitutional amendments,
and women in the media, also it was presented in
the conference a documentary film entitled, (screams
silently),that was produced by Baghdad
Women's Association within its activities of the
project raising the awareness for combating
violence against women.
On July 11, 2008 a member of the Association
participated, for four days, in a workshop held
by Iraqi Civic Education Group by the support of
National Endowment for Democracy (NED) for the
project (Let us Stand Together) to train
activists of civil society organizations in the
fields of advocacy and teamwork .
On July 19, 2008 a member of the Association
participated in the symposium, which was held by
"the Gathering All of Us Iraq" in Baghdad -
Babylon Hotel. The symposium was about the
Iraqi-American Convention and its political,
economic, security, and legal consequences, as
the aim of the symposium was acquainted the
attendees with the importance of knowing the
consequences of this Convention and its
negatives and positives.
On July 4, 2008 a representative of the
Association participated in the seminar that was
held by Iraqi Civic Awareness Group in the Iraqi
Oil Cultural Centre, to prepare trainers in the
field of human rights. In the light of the
discussion of the seminar, it was agreed upon a
mechanism for the work of the advocacy campaign
after raising number of questions by the
participants, such as the question of elections
and the awareness and the education about them,
and also about creating simple and easy way to
their access to the public.
On
June 28, 2008, at the Headquarters of Iraqi
Women Network, a member of the Association
participated in one-day training workshop,
entitled "Strategic Planning and Disseminating
of Non-violence Awareness", that was held by
Almasala Centre for developing Human Resources
in collaboration with Nova Organization
from Spain, and the organization Bridge to
Italy.
From 19-21 June, 2008 representative from
Baghdad Women's Association participated in the
training workshop that held in Oil Cultural
center, as the title of the workshop was
"renovating". The workshop held according to the
cooperation between Iraqi Media Women Center
and Al-Mada Foundation for media, culture
and arts at the aim of developing the capacity
of Iraqi media.
From 16-19 June, 2008 representative of Baghdad
women's Association participated in
the training session "conflict resolution" that
organized by National Democratic Institute,
NDI, in Erbil.
From 14-18 June, 2008, in Mansour Meliá Hotel, a
representative of Baghdad Women's Association
participated in the project "National Plan for
Electoral Education", which was organized by the
Secretariat of Electoral Education Forum.
On
June 14, 2008, the president of Baghdad women's
Association participated in a meeting for Women
Organization in the Headquarters of "Culture for
All" society in Baghdad. The discussions were
about activating women cultural movement. The
meeting attended by number of media men and
others interested in women affairs.
On 5
June, 2008 two members of Baghdad Women's
Association Participated in a
meeting held in the Headquarters of Iraqi Women
Network about role of civil society
organizations in national reconciliation, in
order to discuss the negative issues affecting
the community and developing the mechanisms and
the suggestions to address these negative points
and presenting them to the specialists in the
meeting that will be held in (Sando - Sweden),
in order to find possible means to solve them.
The meeting attended by number of significant
and affective political and parliamentarian
personalities, in addition to representatives of
civil society organizations.
Aiming
at developing and empowering skills of women and
their participation in the political process and
extending bridges of cooperation between civil
society organizations and government
institutions and others, one of the members of
Baghdad Women's Association participated in the
program of empowering women starting from
February until July 2008. This program conducted
by National Democratic Institute (NDI) in
Erbil, as it included series of courses on
topics (conflict resolution and negotiation -
building women's leadership capacities - how to
talk with donors - advocacy campaigns - pressure
and influence - meetings with women activists
from outside of Iraq).
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