Femena: Right, Peace, Inclusion

Femena: Right, Peace, Inclusion
Supporting WHRDs & progressive feminist movements in MENA & Asia.

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Yara
Femena, Rights Peace Inclusion

Yara WHRD Center

The Yara WHRD Center is a space for WHRDs from the MENA and Asia regions, to come together and learn about the importance of self-care, wellness and security. It’s a space where WHRDs can share their own experiences and strategies for ensuring resilience and sustained activism despite pressures and challenges. We strive to provide WHRDs with critical and up to date information from the region and other contexts, from a feminist perspective, about the need and value of practicing selfcare, and ensuring wellness and security at the personal, organizational and movement levels.

Building and Sustaining our Movements is a program of FEMENA which aims to examine and document the efforts of feminist movements in MENA and Asia regions.  Through interviews with feminist activists, women human rights defenders, and leaders, FEMENA aims to create a space for south-south learning and exchange. Interviews highlight challenges, innovative strategies, lessons learned and successes of feminist movements, organizations, and activists, which can inform the work of others tackling similar issues.

How We Help

FEMENA supports women human rights defenders (WHRDs), their organizations, and feminist movements in the MENA and Asia regions, with a particular focus on contexts where civic space is shrinking or closed as well as contexts impacted by conflict and extremism.

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What We Do?

Programs

FEMENA supports WHRDs, their organizations, and feminist movements through three main program areas

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Protect & Expand Civic Space
Globally the rise of fascism, authoritarianism, and extremisms, as well as increased conflict, have undermined the role of civil society.
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Violence Prevention
Women’s movements in the MENA and Asia regions have focused on eliminating sexual and gender based violence against women.
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Yara WHRD Center
The Yara WHRD Center is a space for WHRDs from the MENA and Asia regions, to come together and learn about the importance of self-care, wellness and ...

Activities

The work of FEMENA is carried out through the following interlinked and wrap-around approaches and activities

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Analysis of Trends and Policy

FEMENA strives to provide critical and timely analysis on important trends and ...
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Documentation

FEMENA aims to document innovative and progressive strategies used by feminist movements in the region ...
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Communities of Practice

FEMENA believes in south-south collaboration, sharing and learning ...
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Advocacy

FEMENA is committed to providing opportunities for advocacy, in order to ensure that the voices and ...