Future Women launch their feminist agenda and form a coalition to support women in decision-making

During its annual convention, the Future Movement Women Sector launched last Friday its feminist agenda in cooperation with the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom. The agenda aims at promoting awareness on women’s issues to gradually elevate the standard of their political participation and management of public affairs, as well as their effective engagement in planning and implementing the general policies of the Future Movement through the application of the women’s quota. In addition, the agenda, seeks to eradicate marginalization and legal discrimination against women and to pressure the various political parties and parliamentary blocs to do the same on the electoral level. The recommendation issued at the end of the conference, called for the following: form a women’s coalition to support women in decision making and networking, and help break down economic, social and political barriers, and all forms of violence. It also underscored the need for the all political parties to launch educational, awareness-raising and capacity building initiatives supportive of women active participation in elections. (Al Mustaqbal, April, 24, 2016)