New video about Kayan’s “Active Approach to Personal Economy” programme
Kayan invites you to check out the new video about our “Active Approach to Personal Economy” programme. This programme helps to increase women’s knowledge of their economic, social and cultural rights, poverty, gender-responsive public budgeting and requisites of social change. Furthermore, we lend practical tools that improve women’s skills in handling issues of personal economy, … Read more
“Getting to know Kayan” – Part II: Vision
*** “Getting to know Kayan“ – Part II: Vision. As an agent of feminist social change, Kayan’s goal is the removal of gender as an obstacle to human agency; we seek to empower politicized women to make choices that produce feminist outcomes. To challenge the exclusion of Arab women as decision-makers, Kayan has undertaken to … Read more
Glazer ordered to pay damages
In 2010 Tel Aviv District Court had granted Kayan – Feminist Organization amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) status civil proceeding against Ofer Glazer, who was convicted of sexual harassment in 2007. On 1 December 2011, the court finally ordered the businessman to pay compensation of NIS 250,000 to a nurse he had employed privately … Read more
“Gender Equality in Local Budgets” – final recommendations from groups in Arabeh and Yaft An-Nassriye
Participants of the “Gender Equality in Local Budgets” programme in Yaft An-Nassriye and Arabeh present their final recommendations On 13 and 19 December 2011, participants of Kayan’s “Gender Equality in Local Budgets” programme presented their conclusions and budgetary recommendations in the Arab villages of Yaft An-Nassriye and Arabeh, respectively. Kayan aims to provide women with … Read more
The Forum meets for a final evaluation of its activities in 2011
On 28 December, more than thirty women from over fifteen Arab localities in Israel attended Kayan-Feminist Organization’s final meeting of the Forum for Arab Women Leaders in 2011. The main goal of the meeting was to evaluate the Forum’s local and national programmes of the last year, some of which are to continue in 2012. … Read more
♀Portraits: Reem
Kayan wishes all of our supporters a Peaceful and Happy New Year 2012! With the start of a new year we would like to launch a new series for our blog: ♀Portraits. Our aim is to collect feminists’ individual ideas and perceptions of their feminism and introduce them to our followers and readers interested in or curious about … Read more
