WHEN!
WHEN! is Rights and Humanity’s Women’s Human Rights and Empowerment Network. The network supports women and men to make their personal contribution to the empowerment of women and girls.
It encourages members to take actions, within their own professional, corporate and daily lives, to support women’s empowerment through, for example, advocacy and mentoring. It is open to men as well as women, groups as well as individuals. Ms Cherie Blair is the Patron of WHEN!
The initiative was launched at a one-day conference hosted by HE Ms Lindiwe Mabuza, High Commissioner of South Africa, at South Africa House, London, UK.
The objectives of WHEN are to:
- provide a forum for discussion on women’s rights and empowerment, the exchange of information and identification of strategies for action and development of good practice guidelines
- support women and men to make their personal contribution to the empowerment of women and girls through actions in their own professional, corporate and daily lives
- give an opportunity for members to participate in Rights and Humanity’s empowerment projects through e.g. through mentoring schemes and contributing to the media campaign
- raise funds for Rights and Humanity’s empowerment projects.
Activities of WHEN! include:
- Networking to enable individuals, corporations and educational institutions to contribute their expertise and resources
- Advocacy Research and advocacy for the realisation of women’s rights in law and practice and projects to overcome socio-cultural barriers facing women
- Events a series of high visibility events to inspire joint and individual action including workshops and gala dinners. Previous speakers have included HRH Princess Basma of Jordan, Mrs Cherie Blair, HE Ms Lindiwe Mabuza, South African High Commissioner, London.
- Education and Training in human rights and responsibilities
From 2008, we are planning additional activities:
- Community Empowerment Projects fund raising activities to support Rights and Humanity’s community empowerment projects in Jordan, South Africa and Guatemala.
- The funds raised by WHEN! activities will be used to support the education of girls,
- enhance the life-skills and economic empowerment of women and girls and improve their socio-cultural position.
- Integrated Communication Campaign
- media campaign involving TV, radio and the press
- innovative web-based activities to amplify the voice of women
- Mentoring facilitating business leaders and other successful women and men to mentor disadvantaged women in order to assist them in developing their entrepreneurial capacity and other life skills and to support disadvantaged women to become economically self-sufficient
- Twinning establishing twinning schemes to enable schools in Britain to twin with schools in Africa and the Middle East to build bridges of awareness and understanding between children of different cultures and to help raise funds to enable poor African girls and children orphaned by AIDS to go to school
- Publications a series of “how to” guides for strengthening the realisation of women’s rights for example in the workplace, in education and at the community level.
As part of our current work programme, we intend to develop WHEN! as a global network, linked through an interactive web-site.
To Join please contact our WHEN! coordinator on
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