European Feminist Forum
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The European Feminist Forum (EFF) is a web-based space for dialogue for feminists in Europe
. Launched in April 2007, the European Feminist Forum serves as an initiative to create dialogue and incite change in Europe (EU and EU candidate and neighbouring countries – Western Balkans and ‘European’ parts of the former Soviet Union) by establishing a new feminist agenda. The continual processes of online communication, collaboration and knowledge sharing will accumulate in a publication at the end of 2008 on the achievements of the European Feminist Forum. The Conference which was also planned for June 2008 had to be postponed, due to a lack of funding.
's Women Peacemaker's Program (WPP), The Federation for Women and Family Planning(Poland), The Roma Women’s Network, KARAT Coalitionhttp://www.karat.org/, Babaylan - Philippine Women’s Network in Europe, The Network of East-West Women(NEWW) and Women in Development Europe
(WIDE).
s, in which active collectives around Europe organize around ten specific issues:
* Movement
* Violence, Peace, Security
* Labour Market
* ICT/New Media
* Secularism
* Feminist Migrant Agenda
* Feminist Art
* European Union/Finances
* Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
* Lesbians/LGBTI
EFF Affinity Groups were formed in 2007 and are non-hierarchical, open, participatory and innovative spaces for individual feminists and groups to organize around a specific topic and host debates across Europe. Affinity Groups demonstrate their progress and contributions to the EFF through additions to the website in the form of discussion papers, videos, podcasts and other media. Affinity Groups started to work in 2007 and will continue until June 2008, contributing to setting the agenda of the European Feminist Forum.
, Open Society Institute, http://www.novib.nl/enOxfam Novib
], Mama Cash, Hivos.
http://www.europeanfeministforum.org
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
. Launched in April 2007, the European Feminist Forum serves as an initiative to create dialogue and incite change in Europe (EU and EU candidate and neighbouring countries – Western Balkans and ‘European’ parts of the former Soviet Union) by establishing a new feminist agenda. The continual processes of online communication, collaboration and knowledge sharing will accumulate in a publication at the end of 2008 on the achievements of the European Feminist Forum. The Conference which was also planned for June 2008 had to be postponed, due to a lack of funding.
Participants
EFF is open to anyone who sees themselves as European – whether born in Europe or not, is a feminist (female or male), and who wants to participate in developing the future of a feminist Europe. It is led by a steering group with representatives from the International Information Centre and Archives for the Women's Movement(IIAV) in Amsterdam,ASTRA and the Polish Federation for Women and Family Planning, The International Fellowship of ReconciliationInternational Fellowship of Reconciliation
The International Fellowship of Reconciliation is an international faith-based nonviolent movement created shortly after the First World War, in 1919, to draw together national Fellowships of Reconciliation that had been founded during the war....
's Women Peacemaker's Program (WPP), The Federation for Women and Family Planning(Poland), The Roma Women’s Network, KARAT Coalitionhttp://www.karat.org/, Babaylan - Philippine Women’s Network in Europe, The Network of East-West Women(NEWW) and Women in Development Europe
Women in Development Europe
WIDE is a European network of development NGOs, gender specialists and human rights activists. It monitors and influences international economic and development policy and practice from a feminist perspective. WIDE’s work is grounded on women's rights as the basis for the development of a more...
(WIDE).
Affinity Groups
EFF is organised around a series of theme-based affinity groupAffinity group
An Affinity group is usually a small group of activists who work together on direct action.Affinity groups are organized in a non-hierarchical manner, usually using consensus decision making, and are often made up of trusted friends...
s, in which active collectives around Europe organize around ten specific issues:
* Movement
* Violence, Peace, Security
* Labour Market
* ICT/New Media
* Secularism
* Feminist Migrant Agenda
* Feminist Art
* European Union/Finances
* Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
* Lesbians/LGBTI
EFF Affinity Groups were formed in 2007 and are non-hierarchical, open, participatory and innovative spaces for individual feminists and groups to organize around a specific topic and host debates across Europe. Affinity Groups demonstrate their progress and contributions to the EFF through additions to the website in the form of discussion papers, videos, podcasts and other media. Affinity Groups started to work in 2007 and will continue until June 2008, contributing to setting the agenda of the European Feminist Forum.
Funding
The EFF is funded by Cordaid, Global Fund for WomenGlobal Fund for Women
The Global Fund for Women is the largest non-profit foundation in the world funding women's human rights. It was founded in 1987 by New Zealander Anne Firth Murray, and co-founded by Frances Kissling and Laura Lederer to fund women's initiatives around the world...
, Open Society Institute, http://www.novib.nl/enOxfam Novib
Oxfam Novib
Oxfam Novib is the Dutch affiliate of the international Oxfam organization. It is an association dedicated to establishing a fair world with no poverty in it. The organization is based in The Hague.Oxfam Novib was founded under the name Novib in 1956...
], Mama Cash, Hivos.
http://www.europeanfeministforum.org