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WELDD leader featured on Al Jazeera Arabic News Network

25/11/2015

Last month, a video featuring one of our WELDD leaders was picked up by the Al Jazeera Arabic news network by a producer at the Al Jazeera Center

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Almost Three Years On, WELDD Ripple Effects Still Felt

16/11/2015

Last week, the Funding Leadership and Opportunities for Women (FLOW) team, the group without whose funding WELDD would not have materialized, visited former WELDD part

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IWE-WELDD Butterfly Effect: Contributing to the Advancement of Women and Girls

19/10/2015

In the second part of the Butterfly Effect series, IWE-WELDD shares testimonials from participants of their programmes in Indonesia. These powerful snippets are reminiscent of the flaps of a butterfly’s wing, and have set in motion a hurricane in the future.

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Will Victims of Rape in Sudan See Justice?

10/14/2015

In its final report to the Secretary-General, UNAMID recorded 66 cases with 99 total victims (thirty minors) of conflict-related sexual violence. 36 of those cases were reported to law enforcement agencies. Only nine cases were ever investigated, resulting in a grand total of four arrests. In the report, nearly 70% of victims described the alleged perpetrators as unidentified armed men, and 32 victims reported that the perpetrators were members of the Sudanese armed forces (Rapid Support Forces and Government Police).

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The WLUML-WELDD Butterfly Effect: School, Not Marriage for Young Girls

21/09/2015

The first story in the Butterfly Effect series is about Fatima* a schoolteacher in Nigeria, who managed to prevent one of her students from undergoing child marriage.

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WLUML-WELDD Impact Stories: The Butterfly Effect

21/09/2015

The Women’s Empowerment and Leadership Development for Democratization (WELDD) project aimed for something far more intrinsic; to unscrew the mechanics, replace the one small bolt no one would otherwise notice, and watch the subtle new smoothness of the machinery. It is the logic of the chaos theory: that one small butterfly may flap its wings on part of the world, and somewhere on another part, weeks, perhaps months later, a hurricane would occur. In this series of posts, we aim to represent these very wings—small, colourful flights that are setting in place a new momentum that will, eventually, cause a storm.

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Unacceptable Peace

24/08/2015

This article is the summary of IWE's short documentary. The film tells us about the struggle of a brave woman, Mrs Harni, who found that some cases of violence against women are often solved by making a “deal” between the victim and the perpetrator.

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Ripples of Change: WELDD Builds Feminist Leadership Across Africa and the Middle East

13/05/2015

In 2013, WELDD held workshops in the MENA and Sehal regions to build women’s leadership and political participation. The results were hugely successful; young female activists from Egypt, Tunisia, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Sudan, Senegal, Niger and Mali emerged invigorated and with a renewed sense of purpose.

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