Catch up on the 2012 Sister-to-Sister Mentorship Program! Meet Aghssan Barghouthi (Palestine), Walaa Abdelrhman (Sudan) and Maria Luisa Aguilar (Mexico) and follow along with their experience in Ottawa, Canada.
I can’t believe its been six months since we wrote our first blog post introducing ourselves to the Nobel Women's Initiative online community and that it’s been six month since I ever met Maria Luisa and Aghssan in Canada together with the rest of the team. We all got along very easily and shared ...read more
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Many times before sleeping I would start thinking: how many children are starving in this moment, how many humans are cold, how many prisoners are being tortured, how many women are being raped, how many criminals are having fun! I have now understood that these thoughts are common between all of us ...read more
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I have been finding it very difficult to write this last entry into to the Sister-to-Sister program blog. I do not know if it is because I feel like it is the closure of this amazing adventure or because when I look ahead on women’s rights, I see a long path of struggle against exclusion, ...read more
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I think about international advocacy as an effective and successful tool to promote and defend human rights. I see it, in my daily work as an International officer, as a way to bring to the table and highlight the importance of respecting and promoting human rights beyond borders, and more ...read more
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When I was requested to reflect on what we have learned from the Sister-to-Sister Mentorship Program in regards to international advocacy, three pictures came to my mind: a post by Maria Luisa on Twitter sharing news about Gaza, a photo shared by Aghssan quoting a Sudanese writer describing the ...read more
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Last week, as part of the Sister-to-Sister Mentorship Program, Aghssan, Maria Luisa and I participated in a cross-Canada speaking tour. But ahead of the tour, while still reviewing the schedule, I was really concerned about different facts:
Firstly this trip will be led by MATCH International not ...read more
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As a part of the Sister-to-Sister Mentorship Program, we took part in a speaking tour in Regina, Winnipeg and Ottawa last week, sharing our activism experiences with diverse audiences there. The speaking tour took place in universities such as University of Regina, University of Winnipeg, the First ...read more
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Walaa, Aghssan and I started a new stage of the Sister-to-Sister Mentorship Program at the beginning of October - a stage in which we had the opportunity to share our stories and the stories of our communities with a very diverse group of women and to learn more about the actions taken by many of ...read more
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