In partnership with
G.A.R.Ç.E.S*
When women of Mediterranean seize new media for their
rights!”!
Press
release- 25 mars 2014
How did Mediterranean
women take hold of social networks (blogs, videos, Facebook) to defend their
rights?
What are the most
innovative campaigns in Egypt, Tunisia, France...? What is the impact on their
society?
The Mediterranean
Women’s Fund organises a meeting with active women of these campaign. Such
campaigns include creativity, diversity, interdisciplinary arts (video,
graphics, photos, music, etc.).
Saturday, March 29,
2014 from 9:30 to 1:30 p.m. at Sciences Po Paris.
Room Albert Sorel, 27 rue
Saint- Guillaume, 75007 Paris.
Metro: Rue du Bac and
Saint Germain des Près.
The Mediterranean
Women’s Fund will host
The Egyptian
Association HarassMap Communication Officer, Eba'a El Tammami.
HarassMap fights
against sexual harassment in the street, via a mobile application.
Founded by four
girls, HarassMap has established online
mapping and mobile application that allows victims to alert the association via
SMS and receive instant support and advice. And it works! This concept is spreading
from India to Brazil.
Farah Barqawi of
Women's’ Uprising in the Arab World "the uprising of women in the Arab
world " is a Facebook page created after the Arab revolutions which brings
together more than a hundred thousand people. From this sentence, " I am
for the uprising of women in the Arab world because ... ", this campaign
calls on women to post pictures of themselves holding a sign where their
demands are written.
Natacha Henry,
co-director of animation films for the French association Libre Terre des
femmes.10 animated shorts movies available online in 9 languages to inform
women of their rights against domestic violence.
Note: All interventions
will be in English (no simultaneous translation).
* About the organizers
The FFMed is a fund
that supports women for their emancipation, from north to south across the
Mediterranean in 21 countries. Currently, the FFmed supports and monitors 100
programs whose priority is to strengthen and to enhance the ability of
young women to fight for equal rights, to support innovative
projects in this effort, and to help young women's associations to develop.
G.A.R.Ç.ES (Groupe d’Action et de Réflexion
Contre l’Environnement Sexiste) is a feminist collective created at Sciences Po
Paris as a result of the mobilization against the retirement’s pension reform
in 2010 and, more specifically, after finding that the distribution of speaking
time between students in General Assembly is uneven.
G.A.R.Ç.ES suggests bringing
together all the people who believe in these values and in this feminist
project of social change.
