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NAWO or the National Alliance of Women's Organisations is a London-based umbrella organisation dedicated to promoting women's
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with a special focus on gender and Europe. It was founded in 1989 and has 140 members, both women's organisations and individuals based in England.


Composition

NAWO is an
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, run by a Management Committee made up of its
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. Its membership is made up of single issue to specialist organisations, faith groups, health centres, arts-based organisations and others offering services and campaigning across a broad range of women's concerns.


Current issues

NAWO co-hosted a meeting with
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MP near Parliament Square attended by representatives of key women's organisations and female parliamentarians. The objective of this meeting was to highlight the key issues shared among women's groups and to raise these issues within government. What came out of this discussion was an idea to form a coalition of women's groups called UK Women's Voices. They are also involved in discussions with Iraqi women's organisations and civil society groups, such as
Women Living Under Muslim Laws Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML) is an international solidarity network established in 1984. It does academic and advocacy work in the fields of women's rights and secularism, focusing on the impact on women of laws inspired by Muslim reli ...
(WLUML) who fear that the new
Iraqi Constitution The Constitution of the Republic of Iraq ( Kurdish: دەستووری عێراق) is the fundamental law of Iraq. The first constitution came into force in 1925. The current constitution was adopted on September 18, 2005 by the Transitional Nati ...
will erode women's rights, as the latest draft states that
Sharia law Sharia, Sharī'ah, Shari'a, or Shariah () is a body of religious law that forms a part of the Islamic tradition based on scriptures of Islam, particularly the Qur'an and hadith. In Islamic terminology ''sharīʿah'' refers to immutable, inta ...
will be the main source of legislation. During 2006, before the
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in Germany, NAWO campaigned and called on football managers, players and FA officials to make a public statement condemning
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, as approximately 40,000
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were expected to enter the country during the World Cup, many of whom would have been illegally trafficked into the
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. NAWO annually attend and take part in the United Nation's Commission on the Status of Women at the UN headquarters in New York. They are currently lobbying on four issues: sexual offending and
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; UN
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; the trafficking of women and girls; and the UN
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.


Publications

NAWO publishes a newsletter called ''
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'' every three months; recent topics highleighted have been Women's Human Rights, progress since the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action, Europe and gender equality, Human Trafficking, and Women and Trade. Members also receive a monthly e-bulletin keeping them updated on campaigns and progress.


See also

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Neelam Chaturvedi Neelam Chaturvedi (b. 1 July 1960 at Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh) is an Indian women's human rights defender and activist. She works to create awareness about gender and caste violence in India and build networks to combat violence against women. Sh ...


References


External links


NAWO (official site)
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