Global Fund for Women

Global Fund for Women

Promoting women’s economic security, health, education and leadership

Middle East/North Africa

Article List

# Item Title
1 Call for Peace and Human Security
2 GFW Board Member Sakena Yacoobi Honored with Largest International Women's Rights
3 Sanaa Zreik-Saleh Awarded Jewel Bellush Outstanding Israeli Feminist Prize
4 Snapshots from the Middle East and North Africa
5 Global Fund for Women Assesses Needs of Women in North Africa and Middle East
6 Laqiya's Desert Embroidery Project Set on Fire
7 Women Challenge "Honor" Killings in Jordan
8 In Egypt Vote, Islamist influence Grows
9 Global Fund for Women Announces Largest Endowment Ever for Women Around the World
10 Citizenship Rights for Lebanese Women
11 Study finds MENA Trailing World Average in Economic Participation for Women
12 Emergency Relief Funds Granted to Assist Displaced Lebanese Women and Children
13 Majeda al-Saqqa on the BBC
14 Bahrain Women Society
15 Laqiya: The Association for the Improvement of the Status of Women
16 Palestinian Woman Development Society
17 Tunisian Association of Women for Sustainable Development
18 Women and War
19 Equality in Iraq
20 United Nations' International Day of Disabled Persons
21 A Discussion of Islamic Feminism
22 Afghan Grantee on NPR
23 Sexual and Bodily Rights in Muslim Societies
24 Iraqi Politics Exploit Women's Sufferings
25 From Iraq: Our Struggle Continues
26 Iranian Women Activists Arrested
27 Update from Kuwait
28 Home and Exile in Queer Experience
29 What Has Changed in Iraq?
30 Women's Rights During Wartime
31 Promising Democracy, Imposing Theocracy
32 New Births, New Hope From Afghanistan
33 Is Al Sarafiya bridge Sunni or Shi'ite?
34 $2 Million Awarded in Grants
35 Women in the Gulf
36 Global Fund Grantees Win Five Prestigious Awards
37 Katha Pollitt on Iraqi Women
38 Help Us End Honor Killing in Iraq
39 Now or Never Fund Update
40 Nobel Women's Initiative
41 Update from Lebanon
42 Iraqi Grantee on CNN
43 Stop Violence Against Women in Saudi Arabia!
44 Read a Palestinian grantee's newsletter
45 Message of Solidarity from Our Sister Group in Iraq for International Women's Day
46 Ear to the Ground: Young Women's Dialogues At AWID
47 Notes from Morocco Of A Young, Unwavering, Vibrant Feminism!
48 Turkish Grantee's Media Analyses Highlighted in Local Newspaper
49 Global Fund Donor Reflects On Morocco
50 The War Against Iraqi Women
51 Global Fund for Women Awards $2 million to 138 International Grassroots Women's Rights Organizations
52 Grittv Discussion Features Global Fund Grantees from Egypt and Bosnia and Herzegovina
53 Two Global Fund Grantees Among 2008 Gruber Women’s Prize Recipients
54 Gruber Prize - Two Global Fund Grantees Win Prize
55 Malalai Joya: Bravest Woman of Afghanistan?
56 The Moroccan Women's Movement: A Study In Dynamism
57 Israeli and Palestinian Women Call for Immediate End to Israeli Military Aggression in Gaza
58 Stop The Killing: Global Fund for Women Demands an Immediate End to the Violence in Gaza
59 SF Chronicle Op-Ed on the Global Gag Rule by GFW Vice President Shalini Nataraj
60 Huffington Post: Open Letter to President Obama By Eve Ensler, Kavita Ramdas, Zainab Salbi
61 Women's Organizations Defend Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi’s Rights
62 GFW Advisor Shares Chilling Account Of Atrocities In Gaza
63 Board Member Sakena Yacoobi Wins the Kravis Prize
64 Kavita Ramdas Blogs From Cairo
65 Dateline Beirut: Lebanese LGBT Activists Protest Discrimination And Homophobia
66 Freedom and Equality Remain The Aim Of Our Struggles: Letter From An Iraqi Feminist Activist
67 Out for Justice
68 Global Fund for Women Challenges Militarism
69 Young Women at AWID: Sowing a Multi-Generational Movement
70 Global Fund for Women Awards $1.8 Million to Women's Groups
71 From Cairo: What I Heard in Obama's Words
72 Education: The Difference between Choice and Opportunity
73 When your World Speaks to my World
74 GFW Grantee Partner AWID Urges People to Show Support for Iranian Activist Shadi Sadr
75 Grantee Highlights Lack of Laws Against Marital Rape in Bahrain
76 Those Crafty Arts
77 Global Fund for Women Awards $1.8 Million to Promote Women's Leadership in 61 Countries
78 Iraqi Grantee Petition Demands End to Capital Punishment
79 Mary Robinson to be Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom
80 “Injustice Anywhere is a Threat to Justice Everywhere”: Why Cynthia McKinney's Palestine Activism Resonates With Me
81 Bahraini Grantee Seeks Gender Equality in the Quran
82 Baghdad Underground: Ms Magazine Features Iraqi Grantee and Advisor Yanar Mohammed
83 Moroccan Grantee Highlights Family Law Reform On CNN's Inside Africa
84 GFW Former Activist-in-Residence Calls for More Women Leaders
85 Pardoned: For What?
86 My Jerusalem, Yesterday Night: A Blog Series
87 Historic Conference on Arab Feminisms in Lebanon: Zeina Zataari Presents Groundbreaking Analyses
88 My Jerusalem, Yesterday Night: A Blog Series, Part II
89 "One Day, One Struggle" International Campaign by CSBR to Promote Human Rights In Muslim Societies
90 North African Women At the Forefront of Legal Reform: Op-Ed by Moroccan Activist
91 Lebanon's Other Women 'Out' in Force: Yahoo News Highlights Grantee Partner Meem's New Book
92 16 Days Campaign Spotlight: KAFA, Lebanon
93 Celebrating 30 Years of CEDAW: From San Francisco to Sao Paulo
94 The Sidonian Activist: Zeina Zaatari Profiled in Lebanese Paper
95 Biking for Women's Rights: Donor Catherine Hardee
96 GFW Awards $1.48 Million to Women's Groups
97 Targeting of Iranian Feminists Continues
98 An Iraqi-American Votes in America
99 GFW Awards $1.6 Million to Women’s Groups in 58 Countries
100 Young Arab Feminists Blog!
101 Movement Spotlight: The Future of Arab Feminism
102 Iraqi Grantee Featured in CNN Video on Women Prisoners
103 What happened to us is happening in Gaza
104 Spotlight Afghanistan: Activist Sakena Yacoobi
105 Global Fund for Women Awards $1.89 million to Women’s Groups in 67 Countries
106 Turkish Grantee's Shadow Report on CEDAW
107 GFW Grantee Kayan: Unacknowledged for Helping Increase Mobility for Arab Villages in Israel
108 Work Diaries: Reflections from a Young Feminist on Activist Burnout
109 Iraqi Advisor Yanar Mohammed on Democracy Now!
110 Egyptian Grantee Leader Nominated for UN Special Rapporteur on Torture
111 Economic Justice: Collective for Research and Training on Development-Action
112 Middle East & North Africa: Documenting Her-Stories
113 Is the Women's Movement Being Co-Opted?
114 Why LGBT Rights are Human Rights
115 The Women's Movement is Global and Local
116 Small Grants, Big Impact
117 Turkish Feminists Link Academics and Activists to Eradicate Violence
118 Another World is On Her Way
119 Impact of Militarism on Women in the Middle East & North Africa
120 The Organization for Women's Freedom in Iraq (OWFI) | Iraq
121 Militarism Facts
122 Where No Funders Go: $1.5 Million for Women's Human Rights
123 GFW Among The Nation's Top Ten Picks
124 Standing in Solidarity with the People of Egypt
125 Funding a Global Movement to End Violence Against Women
126 Women and Social Change in the Middle East and North Africa
127 Re-energized by Transnational Feminist Exchanges
128 Our Bodies, Our Choices: Funding Reproductive Rights Globally
129 Telling Our Stories: Women's Voices from the Middle East and North Africa
130 Changing Spaces: Civic Leadership
131 Geek Out with Lebanon’s Geekettes
132 Feminism After 9/11
133 Revolution is Possible
134 And Still We Rise: Stories from our Annual Report
135 Ask Questions, Incite Peace
136 Electing change
137 Amplifying their Voice
138 How will Egyptian Election Results Impact Women?