The Feminine Rights Campaign


"Not a captive
Not a divorcee
Equal and active
I am meant to be"

The Women's Court: the Permanent Arab Court To Resist Violence Against Women is now launching a campaign to end juridical violence against women. The Feminine Rights Campaign calls for equality between men and women especially with respect to the issue of divorce in the Arab region. This campaign will start at the end of 1999 and is expected to last until the end of the year 2000. The countries included in The Feminine Rights Campaign are: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Mauritania, Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.


Objectives

The Campaign's main objective is to raise awareness and influence the decision-makers in the Arab region on the issue of juridical violence to which the women are subjected to. This campaign aims at introducing changes in the personal status codes, namely those which concern the juridical dispositions of divorce.

Intermediary objectives

• To exert pressure on the decision-makers at the political, legislative and media levels.
• To mobilize the public opinion around the theme of the campaign in particular and around women's rights in general.
• To change the personal status code which lays down the basis of inequality between men and women in matters concerning divorce.
• To guarantee the political and popular conditions appropriate to the fight led by the feminine forces in particular and the progressive forces in general, with a view to establish legislative devices that guarantee women's rights at the individual and family levels in the Arab countries.
• To unite and mobilize forces working for Arab women rights.
• To train elements of diverse women's organizations in the Arab world through a structural common force.
• To draw attention to the Court by reinforcing its positions through its members in the Arab countries.