Junta Islàmica Catalana (Catalonian Islamic Board)
Area of activity: religious, assistance and educational
Web page: www.islamicfeminism.org
Email: info@feminismeislamic.org
Mobile : 617 419 327
Catalan Agency for Development Cooperation (Generalitat de Catalunya, Catalonian Autonomous Government)
Women’s Affairs and Civil Rights (Barcelona City Council)
Board of Religious Affairs (Generalitat de Catalunya)
Catalonian Women’s Institute (Generalitat de Catalunya)
Institut Europeu de la Mediterrània (IEMed)
Fundación Pluralismo y Convivencia (Ministry of Justice)
Junta Islámica de España
Associació Socio-Cultural Sakina
Barcelona, Spain
3th, 4th and 5th November 2006
Hotel Alimara (www.alimarahotel.com )
C/ Berruguete 126
08035 Barcelona
Location Map
Abdennur Prado Pavón
E-mail: abdel@webislam.com
Ndeye Hadi Andujar
E-mail: ndeye@webislam.com
Catalan, Spanish and English.
An International Conference on “Islamic feminism” to be held in Barcelona, focussing on the problems of the sharia (Islamic law) and the family codes applicable in countries with a Muslim population.
* Discussion about Sharia and Women’s Human Rights.
* Workshops will be held on polygamy, abortion, divorce, adultery and domestic violence, dealt with from an egalitarian perspective.
* The various strategies of international pro-human rights associations will be made known.
* A panel will be devoted to masculinity and the involvement of men in the attainment of women’s rights.
1. To continue the task which was started in the First Conference on Islamic Feminism, through which the growing Muslim women’s movement in pursuit of gender equality became known, on a theoretical and practical level.To make this movement known to Muslim women living in Spain, as an element for integration and as an alternative to dominant male chauvinistic publications.
2. To contribute to the consolidation of Islamic feminism as a transnational movement, by way of the creation of networks of organizations which work in the field of women’s rights in Islam.
3. To seek greater coordination between Islamic and Western women in relation to common objectives. This issue has two different aspects:
a. That of Western feminist movements operating in the Islamic world who need to set their discourse in context in order to make their work effective; and
b. Given the increasing number of Muslim women living in Western countries, it is necessary that Western feminists know the terms in which the question of gender in Islam is considered.
* Organizations which work to improve the legal and social situation of women in the field of Islam.
* Muslim women from countries in which patriarchal cultural practices or discrimination against women takes place.
* Institutions or persons working in the fields of feminism or gender equality.
* Institutions or persons carrying out their activities in the fields of immigration and cultural diversity.
* Non-governmental organizations working with countries with a Muslim majority.
* Development of the www.islamicfeminism.org website.
* Intellectuals and personalities that may be able to help with the spread of the feminist movement in the Islamic world will be invited to the Conference.
* The main organizations and persons from the Spanish State involved in the promotion of gender equality will be invited to the Conference, as well as non-governmental organizations working with Muslim women (international cooperation, immigration, etc.).
* Those responsible for the areas of women and immigration in the main Spanish City Councils will be called upon through the Municipal Network.
* The Conference will do its best to foster the presence of the feminist guests in the media.
* The making of a documentary of interviews with the participants, which can later be used to give presentations on Islamic feminism.
