These Feminism in the Muslim World Leadership Institutes were developed as an international program to bring together groups of young women leaders from various Muslim countries and communities.
Archives: Projects
Bodily Autonomy, Integrity and Sexual Rights
This program aims to support, link and visibilize feminist narratives and demands from across Muslim contexts that advocate for rights to bodily autonomy.
16 Days Campaign – Together Against Gender-Based Violence
Since it was first launched in 1991, WLUML has hosted a number of transnational actions in connection with the annual 16 Days Campaign against Gender-Based Violence.
Constitutionalizing Women’s Rights
This program aims to develop understandings of justice that will improve women’s lived realities and respect their rights.
“Women and Politics” project
This program aims to support feminist activism to democratize politics through greater political participation and fulfilment of political rights for all, free from harassment and intimidation.
Women ReClaiming Public Spaces: Confronting Rising Sexual Harassment and Violence
This program aims to raise awareness of local efforts to reclaim public spaces in Muslim contexts, and to support feminist organizing for greater autonomy and access for women in varied forms of public space.
Stop Stoning and Killing Women campaign
The practice of stoning to death and honour killing as a state-sanctioned activity was revived in several Muslim-majority contexts, based on religious and cultural fundamentalist interpretations ...
Violence is Not Our Culture campaign
This campaign, founded in 2007, created a global network of organisations and individuals committed to end all forms of discrimination and violence against women (VAW) being justified in the name of culture and/or religion.
Women Reclaiming and Re-defining Cultures: Asserting rights over body, self and public spaces (WRRC) (2008-2012)
WLUML and the Institute for Women’s Empowerment collaborated on the joint programme “Women Reclaiming and Re-defining Cultures: Asserting rights over body, self and public spaces” as part of the activities of the UN Millennium Development Goals.
WLUML Campaign History (1984 and 2008)
History of WLUML begun with Marieme Helie-Locus campaigned to release Algerian women, jailed for the opposition to the introduction of ‘Islamic’ Family Law in 1982.
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