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Political Conflict Resolution Starts at Home! Men and Women join forces across the Divide
A dialogue project between India and Pakistan
The conflict between India and Pakistan has been smoldering since the end of British colonial rule in the year 1947. Negotiations and peace agreements will only be successful if strategies and programs ...
Rwanda - Girls: Fit for Leadership! Empowerment Strategies for “Young Future Leaders”
Model project Girls’ Parliament in Rwanda
On the occasion of the International Women’s Day 2004 and the 10-year commemoration of the genocide in Rwanda, Women without Borders invited the Rwandan Member of Parliament Connie Bwiza Sekamana ...
India - Connecting Women and Children for Hope
A Tsunami-Relief Project in Chennai / South India
It is hard to describe the scale of destruction or the loss of life which the never-before earthquake-triggered Tsunami tidal waves brought in their wake across several coastal districts of Tamil Nadu. ...
India - Peace Starts at Home. Men Included!
A Project Against Violence Against Women
“Men have strength, but not to hit,” is the message of an anti-violence campaign and awareness training in New Delhi and Chennai which we have developed in cooperation with our Indian partner Archana ...
Young Muslims in Europe
A Women without Borders Photo-Text documentation by Edit Schlaffer and Xenia Hausner
How do the young Muslim women of Europe think? How do they define their inner geography and sense of belonging in the tension-filled matters of tradition, religion and modernity? This project with ...
Iraq - Daily Life of Families in Iraq
Youth in the Midst of Horror and Hope
The Iraqi youth are a part of the most educated segment of the Arab world. During the course of the last two years they have been increasingly cut off from education. The unstable political ...
Austria - 3rd Millennium Muslim Man
An action-oriented research project to facilitate the understanding of male Muslims and non-Muslim youth in Austria including experiences from England, France and Germany
Over 15 million Muslims live in the European Union, and the majority is under 30. According to estimates of the U.S. National Intelligence Council, the Muslim population of Europe will double by 2.25. ...
Afghanistan - Women´s Center in the Nimruz Province
This successful project is already been running for three years. At the request of the Afghan Ministry for Women, and after an assessment of the need and feasibility of the project, a women's shelter ...
Afghanistan - Basketball for Girls in Kabul
Under the reign of the Taliban, girls were literally under “house arrest”. They have forgotten—or, worse, had never learnt—how to play sports or to move about. Girls have an enormous ...
Austria - Fair Share in Career and at Home
Family Future Trends – The Future of Living Together
This fall, Women without Borders is conducting an Austria-wide online survey about the reconciliation of work and family. The questionnaire highlights daily realities for men and women in the context ...
Worldwide - Girls without Borders
The daughter of Women without Borders
Girls without Borders, the daughter of Women without Borders, is online! Girls without Borders is an international, innovative web-platform for girls and young women; an attractive forum which offers ...
Afghanistan - Empowerment of Afghan Women for Afghan Women
"Our Country My Role"
Afghan women need the competence and the 'know-how' to be able to take their future into their own hands and to take care of their own concerns. This project was the first initiative to support ...
Palestine - Emergency Medical Help in Birzeit
In cooperation with the Palestinian human rights and peace activist Sumaya Farhat-Naser, the Bruno Kreisky Forum and the Birzeit Women’s Charitable Society, Women Without Borders is supporting a ...
Local - International Girls Parliament
in Latin America and Europe
This unique project is funded by the European Commission, and carried out simultaneously in 8 different municipalities in six Latin American and two European countries in the framework of the ...
Rwanda: "Kicking for Reconciliation!"
A Women without Borders Football for Girls´Project in Kigali
Self-confidence, competence, trauma healing through sport In 1994 the conflict between the Tutsi minority and the Hutu majority in Rwanda started to escalate – the world’s largest genocide ...
Austria/Turkey/Cyprus: Young Women: Fit for Politics!
Political Empowerment Workshops for young women in Vienna, Istanbul and Nicosia.
Young Women: Fit for Politics! is a unique initiative, which puts interested and committed young women in a position to actively fight for a cause and make a contribution to society. It wants to broaden ...
India - Take your Future into your own Hands
A Tsunami Rehabilitation and Support Project for Women 40+
Women, who are for different reasons, being socially as well as economically marginalized. After the Tsunami the social structures in the villages have been destroyed. In the predominant ...
India - Women swimming into the Future!
A Women Empowerment Project in the South Indian Tsunami region.
This pilot program to give girls and women swimming lessons, in cooperation with the Sports Division of the Austrian Federal Chancellery, was a great success. From February 2nd to the 8th ...
Austria - Learning to Live Together
A Research Project on Muslim and Non-Muslim Students, Parents, and Teachers in Austria
On behalf of the Federal Ministry for Education, Art, and Culture we conducted two research projects: Lived School Partnerships: For a Culture of Encounters in School. Intercultural Parent-Teacher Cooperation ...
Zanzibar - The Island of Change! Women Walking into the Future
Women without Borders’ vision: to establish Zanzibar as a model for change and successful development.
From 22 June to 10 July 2008, Women without Borders traveled to Zanzibar—a small island in the Indian Ocean, half an hour by plane from Tanzania—with a team of researchers from the fields of economics, ...
