From: "Making All Voices Count" <i...@makingallvoicescount.org> Date: Mar 8, 2017 3:13 AM Subject: #BeBoldForChange - How we are making women's voices count To: <cl...@e-democracy.org> Cc:
8th March 2017 [image: MAVC projects] <http://makingallvoicescount.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1330db30dd9f99566ba5be55&id=3fb8aeb109&e=8fda1d39d0> *Over the past four years, Making All Voices Count has been fostering new ideas for social inclusion and accountable, responsive governance. Working with project teams across Africa and Asia, we strive to #BeBoldForChange and make the voices of women count in the visions and processes of governance. Today, on International Women’s Day it is more important than ever to think about how we avoid creating a new, digital gender divide and what we do to fight gender-based violence, online and offline.* *Rating post-rape services as a tool for accountability to rape survivors* <http://makingallvoicescount.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=d1330db30dd9f99566ba5be55&id=97c007c515&e=8fda1d39d0> In South Africa, women’s day is celebrated on 9 August, to commemorate the moment in 1956 when 20,000 women marched to protest against the imposition of the infamous apartheid ‘pass laws’ which limited their freedom of movement. Interwoven with the evolution of South African women’s resistance is a long history of violence against women. According to a report released today by the Foundation for Professional Development (FPD) <http://makingallvoicescount.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1330db30dd9f99566ba5be55&id=3276722286&e=8fda1d39d0>, South Africa continues to have high rates of rape, with few prosecutions and fewer convictions. Learn more about what is being done to tackle rape and gender-based violence... > <http://makingallvoicescount.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=d1330db30dd9f99566ba5be55&id=a26ccfb210&e=8fda1d39d0> [image: FPD South Africa] <http://makingallvoicescount.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1330db30dd9f99566ba5be55&id=9b44e18b0d&e=8fda1d39d0> [image: Women, Bangladesh] <http://makingallvoicescount.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=d1330db30dd9f99566ba5be55&id=a705086b64&e=8fda1d39d0> *Women and the right of access to information* <http://makingallvoicescount.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=d1330db30dd9f99566ba5be55&id=fa01e02096&e=8fda1d39d0> While technological advances and new systems have provided powerful platforms for accessing open data, there has been little or no emphasis on ensuring that women can have an equal share in open governance. A research from the Carter Center <http://makingallvoicescount.us5.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=d1330db30dd9f99566ba5be55&id=96b5c4aaf5&e=8fda1d39d0> examines women’s right to information in Bangladesh. It asks whether women are able to access information with the same frequency, ease, and rate of success as men - and why. > <http://makingallvoicescount.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1330db30dd9f99566ba5be55&id=1415440e8c&e=8fda1d39d0> [image: Suara Kita, Indonesia] <http://makingallvoicescount.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1330db30dd9f99566ba5be55&id=0af711ec0d&e=8fda1d39d0> *Can SMS really transform women’s inclusion in governance processes?* <http://makingallvoicescount.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1330db30dd9f99566ba5be55&id=e50a3b5b09&e=8fda1d39d0> *"Women’s voices are still largely absent from annual planning meetings at the village level… how inclusive can village planning be if women aren’t included in key meetings to share their concerns and opinions?" * In Indonesia, Suara Kita (Our Voice) <http://makingallvoicescount.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1330db30dd9f99566ba5be55&id=77ac7d8ed1&e=8fda1d39d0> project is making sure that women get their chance to have their say in local government, and to do so are tackling a hugely complex issue - changing attitudes to women’s role in public life. > <http://makingallvoicescount.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=d1330db30dd9f99566ba5be55&id=f00862ac91&e=8fda1d39d0> [image: Hamara Internet, Pakistan] <http://makingallvoicescount.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1330db30dd9f99566ba5be55&id=6f2fb1d29f&e=8fda1d39d0> *Making online spaces safe for women in Pakistan* <http://makingallvoicescount.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1330db30dd9f99566ba5be55&id=7b6dad66f8&e=8fda1d39d0> *"There was a huge sense of freedom in being able to use technology for myself, without restrictions – and that’s really where I started. In 20 years’ time I dream that all women not only have access to the internet, but are not afraid of what will happen if men find out." - *Nighat Dad, Director of the Digital Rights Foundation With the Hamara Internet (Our Internet) <http://makingallvoicescount.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1330db30dd9f99566ba5be55&id=c64a97c207&e=8fda1d39d0> project, the Digital Rights Foundation sheds some light on the issue of gender-based digital violence against women, and provides women and young girls with the necessary knowledge and tools to protect their freedom of expression – online and offline. > <http://makingallvoicescount.us5.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=d1330db30dd9f99566ba5be55&id=5e4441047f&e=8fda1d39d0> <http://makingallvoicescount.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1330db30dd9f99566ba5be55&id=65f8862b20&e=8fda1d39d0> Facebook <http://makingallvoicescount.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1330db30dd9f99566ba5be55&id=ddedc5a13a&e=8fda1d39d0> <http://makingallvoicescount.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1330db30dd9f99566ba5be55&id=a6e37e3c76&e=8fda1d39d0> Twitter <http://makingallvoicescount.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1330db30dd9f99566ba5be55&id=3e87a13914&e=8fda1d39d0> <http://makingallvoicescount.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=d1330db30dd9f99566ba5be55&id=6cadfefc76&e=8fda1d39d0> Website <http://makingallvoicescount.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1330db30dd9f99566ba5be55&id=704d46f9e2&e=8fda1d39d0> <i...@makingallvoicescount.org> Email <i...@makingallvoicescount.org> Hivos · Raamweg 16 · Den Haag, Zuid-Holland 2596 HL · Netherlands ―― View topic http://groups.dowire.org/r/topic/5goNYesCeLSdXjsiPNOftC Leave group mailto:newswire@groups.dowire.org?subject=Unsubscribe
