Future women’s workshop on advocacy

In collaboration with the German Friedrich Naumann Foundation, the Future Movement Women’s Sector organized last Saturday a workshop on advocacy and the participation of women in political parties. Targeting the central sector’s committees officers from all across Lebanon, the workshop stressed the role of a party in promoting a more effective engagement of women by reestablishing their rights in being part of the decision making process. Participants were divided into working groups, who were asked to draw their vision of advocacy to be used in campaigns related to the rights of women and the need to promote awareness and societal and partisan mobilization programs to pressure for change in the prevailing legal and social systems. Participants also discussed proposals for anti-violence and discrimination campaigns and ways to raise awareness on the problem and influence decision makers on the one hand, and the community on the other to this effect.

Al Mustaqbal, November 1, 2015