Itach Maaki - Women Lawyers for Social Justice: Following the success of Itach-Maaki's 2010 Supreme Court petition against the Turkel Committee and the initiation of broad public discussion regarding women's participation in policymaking, Itach-Maaki’s project
Women's Voices = Women's Impact continues to work toward diverse women’s full involvement in all aspects of public life and policymaking in Israel. The project focuses on enforcing Amendment 4 to the 1951 Women's Equal Rights Law in Israel, a domestic law that broadens UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace, and Security to include social issues in addition to matters of war and peace and stresses the importance of the inclusion of women from diverse communities.
Kayan - Feminist Organization: Kayan's project
JUSUR supports grassroots Arab women's initiatives in towns and villages all over Israel that improve women's lives in tangible and specific ways. The project trains and encourages the leaders of these groups, provides mentoring and opportunities for exchange between them, and contributes financial resources.
The Coalition for Public Health:
Women and Environment - The dawn of environmental justice for women. During 2011, the coalition is developing a report on the impacts of the environment on women, including air pollution and mortality and morbidity; PCB's and dioxins that are mimicking estrogen and the way they interfere in our bodies; Different metals that act as estrogen, exposing women to higher risks of cancer and endocrine disruption. The report will raise women's awareness to elevated risks caused by pollution, and will aim to convince Israeli women to be more active in demanding policy change in Israel - from cure to prevention. The report will be submitted to decision makers, Knesset members, local authorities, research institutes, etc.
The Working Group for Equality in Personal Status Issues: The Working Group is launching the third phase of a multi-stage raising awareness campaign to challenge the phenomenon of polygamy (the marrying of multiple wives) in Palestinian society in a project titled
Targeting Polygamy in the Palestinian Community. Despite the existence of civil legislation to restrict it, polygamy is still prevalent across the Palestinian minority in Israel, and is often given widespread legitimacy, even with the social, psychological and financial damages it incurs on families. The Working Group's campaign is seeking to challenge the very discourse surrounding polygamy in the community through public awareness activity on the national level. Coming on the heels of an intensive 2010 media campaign designed to break the silence around this issue, the third phase will be geared to deepen the commitment to this issue on the ground, through work locally in villages around the country and with NGOs nation-wide.
Jerusalem Open House for Pride and Tolerance:
Kadima is a project that aims at fostering a new generation of local LGBT leaders in a form of an ongoing training seminar. Kadima, meaning forward in Hebrew, is also an acronym for the seminar’s purposes, translated to: community, dialogue, leadership and empowerment. The training seminar puts emphasis on widening the political perspective of the participants by introducing them to the challenging realm of gender and identity politics.
The Adva Center: The goal of the project
Gender Mainstreaming Programming & Budgeting in Israeli Ministries, is to work with the relevant officials in three government ministries to convince them to mainstream gender into programming and budgeting in at least one program area. This is to be done by submitting gender analyses of the relevant program areas, with recommendations for changes that will reflect greater gender-responsiveness.
The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute:
Translation of Gender Mainstreaming within Organizations: workshop in social translation. The workshop in social translation is carried out as part of the MA Program in Gender Studies at Tel Aviv University, as a joint venture with the WIPS program Center for the Advancement of Women in the Public Sphere (WIPS) at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. The aim of the workshop is to develop initial infrastructure of experience based models, strategies and tools for translating Gender Mainstreaming within organizational arenas, by internal actors and agents.
Palestine-Israel Journal:
The coming issue (Vol. 17 No 3, 2011) of the PALESTINE-ISRAEL Journal:
Women and Power in Israeli-Palestinian Peace-building/Palestinian State-building, focuses on the power and further empowerment of Palestinian and Israeli women in the two-pronged peace-building and state-building process, and the impact of the ongoing conflict on the lives of women in both societies. Through the dissemination (print/online/e-mail) of a publication of thought in three languages and public dialogue events, the aim is to examine present and future plans and prospects, and how women can make a unique contribution to the process.
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