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Communication and voice Building
With the increased reliance on information and communication technologies, the right to information access and exchange and to the freedom of expression has gained new dimensions. Networks now play a fundamental role in building women’s voices and consolidating their citizenship right. These issues are tackled by three initiatives from Mauritania, Lebanon and the ArabGulf.
The Mauritanian initiative focuses on women’s access to information and communication technologies by creating a website to enable Mauritanian women to use new information channels that give them an opportunity to voice views without any discrimination and obtain and exchange information. The aim is to raise their awareness about their rights without any discrimination and develop their level of competence and interaction with others.
The pseudo regional initiative in the Arab Gulf deals with the opportunity offered by networks in establishing a constructive dialogue on women’s citizenship rights through a dynamic relationship between international women’s networks and national non governmental organisations, and the interactive relationship between universal and local discourses on the issues of social justice and equality.
The initiative on Lebanese novels analyses a selection of literary writings by adopting the gender approach with the aim of depicting a realistic picture of Lebanese women’s position and rights at the local and national levels according to the laws and the social, cultural and economic contexts. The study focuses on the right of women to expression by discussing a set of topics such as love, domination and violence.