نرحب بكم/ن في النشرة الإلكترونية الأولى للمجموعة النسوية. كما تعلمون/تعلمن، قامت العام الماضي مجموعة من النسويات الشابات والنسويين الشباب بإطلاق المجموعة النسوية. وبعد عام مثير وحافل بالإنجازات – وخيبات الأمل – النسوية، وبعد وقفة استمرت بضعة أشهر وتخللتها جلسات عصف ذهني ونقاشات ومحادثات، قمنا بإعادة إطلاق محاولة أخرى للتنظيم النسوي مع العزيزة” فرح سلكا” كمنسقة [...]
Welcome to the first edition of Nasawiya’s newsletter. As you know, a year ago a group of us young feminists launched the Feminist Collective (FC) in Beirut. After an exciting feminist 2009 full of achievements – and disappointments – and after a few months of hiatus that were not without brainstorming, discussions and conversations, we [...]
On Friday, August 20, 2010, an overjoyed crowd of feminists gathered at Nasawiya’s new space in Beirut to celebrate its much-anticipated inauguration. During the evening, while many raised their glasses to bridge past initiatives with those to come, others played baby-foot, or indulged in tarot reading sessions. Nevertheless, the highlight of the evening was SoliRose’s intense [...]
Twenty participants from seven Arab countries went to Cairo in April to launch the first Young Arab Feminist Network (YAFN). This initiative, created to provide a critical and progressive space for young Arab feminists, aims at challenging the women’s rights movement to become less elitist and more inclusive. It also aims to provide capacity building [...]
كان يا ما كان نهار الأربعاء الماضي الواقع في 19 آب/أغسطس، استضافت “المجموعة النسوية” في بيتها الجديد الواقع في منطقة الأشرفية – شارع الشحروري، العاملة الاجتماعية “عبير مزهر”* للحديث عن “آليات حماية المرأة من العنف الزوجي”. بدأت الندوة عند الساعة السادسة والنصف بحضور عدد من النسويات والنسويين، وتناول عرض الباوربوينت الذي أعدته “عبير” المحاور [...]
This Wednesday, August the 19th at 630 PM, Nasawiya hosted a talk in its new office in Ashrafieh, by the social worker Abeer Mezher.
Abeer’s talk centered around the mechanisms to protect women from partner violence. She stressed on the difference between using the terms domestic, family and conjugal violence.
Abeer’s power point presentation included discussion on preventive measures for violence, intervention methods, awareness versus laws, compensations, and more.
Abeer focused on the need to create a violence free space through:
- Awareness about violence and its different forms.
- Classification of violence as a crime, and not as a personal issue that ought to be addressed differently, as it is in lebanon and a big section of the Arab world,
- Training doctors and police men in a way to help them realize the dangers of violence to be able to report it properly.
Abeer also talked about the process in which conjugal violence is being applied:
- Taking the violent partner to jail.
- Taking the woman directly to a safe space, and the kids, in case there were any.
- How the laws are applied.
Abeer then moved on to discuss the secret centers where women are taken in, away from the violent partner until there is a trial, or finding solution for the situation,
stressing on the feminist approach of having these centers, by empowering woman to fight and protec
This Wednesday, August 18 at 6:30 pm, Nasawiya will be hosting a presentation by Abeer Mezher at the new Nasawiya house, about the amazing work she’s been doing for years. Abeer Mezher is a social worker and member of the Union of Quebec Social Workers – Canada. She holds a Masters degree in Political Sciences and a Bachelor degree in Social Service. She [...]
This Monday, a group of Nasawiyas organized a fund raising dinner in Walimit Warda to gather money for a Sudanese girl living in Lebanon and being treated from cancer. This event follows a series of fund raising and solidarity events planned in Washington and Khartoum after the initial fundraiser 2 months ago in Lebanon. Back [...]
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