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Urgent Applications 2010
Poland
Feminist Think Tank
http://www.ekologiasztuka.pl/think.tank.feministyczny
Project “Feminist toolkit for elections 2010”
The progressive polish politician Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka who worked to promote women’s rights was killed in the air crash of 10 April 2010 in Smolensk, Russia, along with many other members of Poland’s government. To commemorate and continue her work, a broad-based alliance of women’s organisations became active shortly before the elections. Ewa Charkiewicz from Feminist Think Tank in Warsaw wrote to filia in June 2010, “We worked hard to give women excluded from the political discourse a vote (women in poverty, Roma women, migrants). We have drawn up feminist guidelines with which election programmes can be analysed”. With their many activities, the members aim to counteract neoliberal and conservative trends and back up the demand for implementation of women’s rights with facts.
Their work is continuing after the election. Ewa reports, “cooperation in this project has started off a new, left, feminist network.”
Amount: € 5,000
South Africa
WHEAT Trust
www.wheattrust.co.za
Project “The development of a well-researched critique on the soccer World Cup and gender related issues”
The effects of the men’s soccer World Cup on women formed a subject of discussion by women’s organisations in Germany already in 2006. During the soccer World Cup in South Africa this year, the South African Women’s Foundation WHEAT-Trust in Cape Town ascertained that the situation had developed even more dramatically than expected. Violence, trafficking in women and child prostitution reached a hitherto unsurpassed extent. Thousands of women – many of whom were smuggled or travelled in from the surrounding states – were exposed without protection to violence and violation of their human rights.
WHEAT is gathering and analysing data and developing concrete demands and recommendations from these that it is making available to the Brazilian Women’s Foundation ELAS. ELAS will work with the Brazilian women’s groups on this material in advance to improve the human rights situation of women and girls within the context of the next soccer World Cup in Brazil.
Amount: € 5,000
Germany
Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft Mädchenpolitik Hessen e.V.
http://www.feministisches-zentrum.de/junge-feministinnen-maedchenarbeit
Project “Network meetings of young feminists in work with girls”
“We agreed that it was time to come out from isolation and the feeling of fighting alone and were delighted with the idea and need for political and personal networks. As an expression of the necessity for new, lively and feminist solidarity too!” This is why young feminists from work with girls set up the ju_fem_netz at a meeting in Marburg on 28 and 29 August 2010. They aim to win back ‘thinking spaces’ in which to reflect politically on their own work with girls. The participants agreed that feminist work with girls must turn back much more strongly to prevailing conditions instead of addressing the conduct of individual girls. For example, in the field of career promotion for girls, how is it possible to criticise not the girls but a system too? The next meeting will be held in September 2011.
Amount: € 500