Arab Women’s Fund: an idea whose time has come ,

Jane Gabriel — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:21:46 +0000

by Jane Gabriel, who reports from Amman where Karama activists from across the Middle East and North Africa are meeting.

When representatives from Karama attended an International forum of the Association for Women's Rights in Development in 2005, they found little attention to their region's priorities and a dearth of Arab women's voices in the conference. Hibaaq Osman, founder of Karama, political strategist and campaigner for women's human rights, decided that it was time to find the resources that would allow them to participate. Working with women's organisations that rely so often on western donor funding, Hibaaq says that she comes up "against blocks wherever there is a new idea, either the donor doesn't understand the idea itself, or has their own idea of what women's rights work is; that if it's new and from the ground they find it very difficult to understand".

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