zohra moosa

Zohra Moosa is Director of Programmes at Mama Cash an international women’s fund based in Amsterdam that supports women’s, girls and trans* rights groups around the world. Prior to this role she was Women’s Rights Advisor at ActionAid UK. Find her on twitter

What makes an expert expert?

At a session on gender equality and aid effectiveness today I listened to five women presenters speak about the Paris Declaration in full technical detail. They reviewed the purpose of

By zohra moosa

/ 27 Feb 2008

The cost of talk

Turns out I wasn't the only one noticing the English-centricity at the CSW yesterday. At the NGO orientation I went to yesterday afternoon, one woman who I think

By zohra moosa

/ 26 Feb 2008

Working the system, 007 style

I went along to the official NGO orientation session yesterday afternoon to follow up on my interest in reporting on how women's NGOs influence the CSW and global

By zohra moosa

/ 26 Feb 2008

A view from the outside

The last time I was at a UN conference was in 2001 when I attended the World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa as an NGO delegate. I found

By zohra moosa

/ 25 Feb 2008

Follow the dollar

I'm sitting in the airport lounge getting ready to fly to New York so that I can attend my first CSW as a blogger for openDemocracy. For the

By zohra moosa

/ 25 Feb 2008

In closing: honouring women

Today is International Human Rights Day. When I started writing for this blog, it was the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. The 16 days in between

By zohra moosa

/ 10 Dec 2007

Mythical choices

Much of the inertia around taking action on the abuse of women in its form as prostitution appears to me to frequently be the result of a problematic conception of

By zohra moosa

/ 9 Dec 2007

Damned if you do and also if you don’t

The many contradictions of anti-abortion arguments serve only to reinforce to me the extent to which the anti-choice agenda is actually about undermining women's right to have control

By zohra moosa

/ 8 Dec 2007

Honour and shame: two sides of the stigma coin

I had a conversation yesterday with a friend about domestic violence within the Muslim community in the UK and the issue of why some Muslims resist discussing what they know

By zohra moosa

/ 7 Dec 2007

Virtual Violence

Cyber violence against women is on the rise yet many countries' laws still do not have ways of addressing it in part because of the nature of the '

By zohra moosa

/ 5 Dec 2007

Who pays for violence against women?

Consider this, from UNFPA: In Chile, domestic violence cost women $1.56 billion [USD] in lost earnings in 1996, more than 2 per cent of the country's GDP.

By zohra moosa

/ 4 Dec 2007

Penning resistance for change

There are a number of women in the world today who are risking their lives to reveal the violence against women that exists within their communities. It is a tragic

By zohra moosa

/ 4 Dec 2007