URU, Alm.del - 2014-15 (1. samling) - Bilag 164: Invitation til møde med delegation fra Mellemøsten og Nordafrika

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URU Alm.del Bilag 164, UPN Alm.del Bilag 207
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Middle East / Northern Africa delegation: meeting with UPN, URU and LIU - May 26, 2015

Amel Fahmy, Egypt

Amel Fahmy is the co-founder of the website HarassMap to document sexual harassment in Egypt and the Managing

director of Tadween, a Women Research Center. Amel holds a master in Gender Studies and Management of NGOs

and she conducts research to understand the social factors that underline or drive GBV in different communities.

During her work at the WHO headquarter in Geneva and later at the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Amel

worked with hundreds of women from all over the world to examine and address different GBV issues. At the TEDx

Cairo in 2014 Amel spoke about violence against women.

http://harassmap.org/en/

http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/Sexual-harassment-hammering-dow

Dr. Azza Kamel, Egypt

Dr. Azza Kamel holds a Ph.D. in Education and is the director of Appropriate Communication Techniques for

Development (ACT). She is a founding member of both the New Women Research and Study Center in Giza and of

the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights. Over the past 18 years, Azza has worked as a women activist to fight

violence against women and advocate for equality between men and women. As a social development and gender

expert she works with projects in the social development field and with building capacity of women for their political

participation.

Azza is part of the Who Is She i Eg pt , a o li e data ase of fe ale e perts, ela orated i

cooperation with KVINFO

and funded by the DAPP initiative.

http://whoisshe.wmf.org.eg/expert-profile/azza-kamel

http://www.wmf.org.eg/?lang=en

Mozn Hassan, Egypt

MA in International Human Rights Law Mozn Hassan is the founder and Executive Director of Nazra for Feminist

Studies in Cairo - a youth initiative to integrate gender and feminism into Egyptian society. In 2013, Mozn received

the inaugural Charlotte Bunch Human Rights Defender Award. Her research interests range from combating violence

against women, history of feminism in Egypt, to early child marriage. Currently Mozn is a consultant for Women

Human Rights Defenders MENA Coalition, a member of the International Planning Committee for AWID Forum 2016

as well as a board member of the Global Fund for Women. She also served as Egypt advisor with the Global Fund for

Women and as a consultant with the UNDP project "Combating Female Genital Mutilation".

http://nazra.org/en

http://www.icanpeacework.org/mozn-hassan-receives-charlotte-bunch-human-rights-defender-award/

Fatima Outaleb, Morocco

Fatima Outaleb

is a fou di g e er a d oard e er of the wo e ’s orga izatio l’U io A tio Fé i i e

(UAF) in Rabat. She has 25 years of experience of working with gender based violence (GBV), gender mainstreaming,

wome

’s politi al parti ipatio

and empowerment at a national and regional level within both UAF and international

organizations, such as training of female members of political parties in Tunisia. Fatima has served as a gender

KVINFO is the Danish Centre for Gender, Equality and Diversity, founded in 1979. KVINFO has worked as a DAPP partner since 2006.

URU, Alm.del - 2014-15 (1. samling) - Bilag 164: Invitation til møde med delegation fra Mellemøsten og Nordafrika

advisor for many international NGOs e.g. International foundation for electoral systems USA, Swedish international

Development Agency, Aswatt Nissa Association Tunisia.

http://www.maryfonden.dk/da/marokko-2013-pressemeddelelse

http://issuu.com/lokk/docs/lokknytapril2011/5

Anthony Keedi, Lebanon

Anthony Keedi is a psychologist and gender specialist, working in ABAAD- Resource center for Gender equality in

Beirut. Anthony works on a project to prevent sexual violence through the breaking down of gender stereotypes

and engaging men and boys in this process by challenging their view on gender. ABAAD also runs a

Me ’s e ter,

where men can receive counseling in confidentiality about family and anger issues. This approach is quite new in the

Middle East and Northern Africa.

http://kvinfo.org/web-magazine/lebanon-new-male-images-paving-way-equality

http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2014/jun/10/womens-rights-middle-east-

abaad

Laila Alodaat, Syria

Laila Alodaat is a human rights lawyer specializing in the international law of armed conflicts. Her law practice

focuses on international accountability and the responsibility to protect civilians and marginalized groups. She also

conducts trainings on humanitarian law and has worked on several conflict situations including Syria, Libya, Iraq, and

Pakistan. Laila is a member of the board of directors at The Syria Justice and Accountability Centre (SJAC) and she

currently works on

the MENA age da progra

e at the Wo e ’s I ter atio al League for Pea e a d Freedo

(WILPF).

http://syriaaccountability.org/about/

http://www.wilpfinternational.org/the-women-of-syria-advocating-for-peace-in-syria/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIeK4Y-NaIM

Meriem Ben Lamine, Tunisia

Meriem Ben Lamine is a lawyer, university professor and prominent women rights activist. Since 2014 she is a

project coordinator of a regional project on violence against women in Tunisia, Egypt and Morocco. The main goal of

the project is to fight violence against women through raising awareness about women's rights and building

knowledge about violence against women. Also, the project aims to increase the dialogue and cooperation between

Denmark and the Arab world through networking and exchange of experiences. Funded by the DAPP initiative, the

project is managed by the Danish organizations: Danner, LOKK and the Women's Council.

Meriem is the author of

various books, e.g. La tunisie face a l'experience democratique

pu lished i

http://www.danner.dk/flere-tunesiske-kvinder-goer-op-med-partnervold/

Danner is a shelter for women victim of violence, a resource center and an advocacy organization. Created in 1979, Danner was one of the

first wo e ’s shelters i De ark. LOKK, the atio al orga isatio of wo e ’s shelters i De ark, was esta lished i

LOKK is a union

of wo e ’s shelters a d ou selli g e tres. The Wo e 's Cou il i De ark is a u rella orga isatio for orga isations

with a total

of ore tha o e illio

e ers. Fou ded i

, the Wo e ’s Cou il works to to stre gthe wo en's

rights and influence in society and

create real equality between women and men.

The o sortiu of Da er, LOKK a d The Wo e ’s Cou il has worked as a DAPP part er si e

2013.