Women Activists CrossBorder Cooperation Campaign Caravan, Exhibition, Public Debates
The program is a 3 year regional initiative, implemented in partnership with Transeuropeennes, Paris and NGOs from the SE region: Albanian Human Rights Group - Tirana; Center for Cultural Decontamination- Belgrade; Center for Women War Victims – Zagreb; Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis –Ljubljana; Kosovo Action for Civic Initiatives – Pristine; Pro Femina – Belgrade; Women's Club “Princess Ksenija” - Cetinje; Urban-in – Novi Pazar; and Women to Women – Sarajevo.
The initiative is a collective action of women activists from the region that share common values for peace, democratization, and women's empowerment. In 2002/3, a caravan of over 50 women activists traveled through the region of the Former Yugoslav republics and Albania, in order to pass the imposed borders and to face the realities of the Other. A traveling exhibition of photographs was organized in the capital cities, followed by debates on imposed borders and raising public awareness against discrimination of all kind. Activities planned in 2004 consist of: publishing, dissemination and promotion of the book “Balkan Women for Peace”, as well as promotion and broadcasting of the film “Women of 12 Borders”. Public debates and training sessions will take place in all participating countries based on the experience of the 2002 Caravan.
For more information on this project, please contact Marija Savovska, Coordinator FOSIM – Women's Program Bul. Jane Sandanski br. 111, 1000 Skopje Tel: 02 244 44 88, ext. 106 and 02 244 67 60 Fax: 02 244 44 99, email: msavo@soros.org.mk