Fundación Mujeres en Igualdad

The Fundación Mujeres en Igualdad (MEI), known in English as the Women in Equality Foundation, is an Argentine NGO created in March 1990. It has been awarded consultative status with United Nations ECOSOC.[1] The foundation sets out to combat gender based violence and discrimination against women by promoting welfare, participation and empowerment in the political, economic, social and cultural spheres.[2] From its inception Women in Equality promoted the use of the new technologies intensively, being the first women´s NGO in Argentina to have a website. Through such initiatives it has networked and created partnerships with NGOs and with the women's movement both at the national and international levels.[3]

Structure

Mujeres en Igualdad Foundation has its offices in Florida, Province of Buenos Aires. The founder of Women in Equality was Zita Montes de Oca,[4] with Monique Thiteux- Altschul is its Executive Director.[5]

I had the priviledge to accompany her in the creation of Mujeres en Igualdad in 1990, when the women´s movement set out to enact an electoral quota law: a tough goal to attain but which would warrant critical changes for women in the political field. Since then, we shared eight years of feminism, friendship and hard work, as well as the discovery of the digital world into which we dived with a passion, seeing how the networks that Zita had built from within the public sphere, grew, tied together, were enriched both in the way we communicated as well as on the issues we discussed.
— Monique Thiteux-Altschul[6]

Fields of advocacy

Awards

Breakfasts

Mujeres en Igualdad began its “About Representatives and Represented” Project breakfasts in 1993,[16] and has since held 176 breakfasts, in the City of Buenos Aires and in numerous provinces. An average of 70 sundry participants attend each month, including women senators, deputees ad legislators, judges, lawyers, functionaries, journalists, academics, union representatives, members of NGOs and international agencies, embassies, aboriginal people´s organizations, politicians, and grass roots organizations. These monthly meetings are meant to make town halls debate women´s issues from the political agenda as well as special topics that allow participants to reflect and cooperate conjointly.[17]

International forum of women against the corruption

Mujeres en Igualdad Foundation has organized three forums and prepares its fourth Forum to be held in October 2016[18] in order to analyze and draft public policies and gendered budgets to counteract actions used by corruption to threaten women´s human rights.[19] The third Forum was held in 2008 in the School of Law in the University Buenos Aires, within the framework of Women for Equality and Transparency (UNIFEM – UNDEF, United Nations), in order to debate and share experiences fostering transparency.[20]

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