Future Women workshop in Beirut on advocacy and lobbying

The Future Movement Women’s Sector organized last Saturday a workshop in Beirut under the heading of ‘Advocacy and Lobbying’ that targeted women members from all parts of the country . The event held in the presence of the General Coordinator, Afifeh Sayyed, comes as part of a series of events implemented by the Women’s Sector in collaboration with Friedrich Naumann Foundation. In this respect, the Future project coordinator, Tala Itani, pointed out that the workshop will be followed by a series of training sessions addressing the topic of women empowerment across all levels. Participants were divided into working groups and each group was asked to draw its vision of the required advocacy plan to be adopted in relevant campaigns promoting women’s rights, as well as the importance of developing awareness- raising and societal mobilization to pressure change in prevalent social and legal norms. Other discussions tackled societal and partisan advocacy campaigns to fight violence against women and early marriage and strengthen women’s participation in political life, as well as ending all forms of discrimination towards achieving equality. The workshop also focused on ways to increase awareness and pressure decision makers as well as society in order to achieve the campaigning objectives. (Al Mustaqbal, September 12, 2015)