Alliance for Arab Women

The Alliance for Arab Women is an Egyptian non-governmental organization that works as an umbrella body for a network of NGOs. It cooperates with other Egyptian and Arab organizations with the aim of giving women human security. The organization seeks to influence policies and legislation and provides services and programmes within the framework of human rights work. Its secretariat is based in Cairo, and it has branches in governorates in the north and the south of Egypt. The Alliance has held consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) since 1996. It was selected as coordinator of Arab NGOs to prepare for and participate in the 4th International Conference on Women held in Beijing in 1995, and to deliver the Arab NGO declaration to the United Nations General Assembly in 2000. Its work is documented in the literature on women's organizing in the Middle East, including Dawn Chatty and Annika Rabo's 'Organizing Women: Formal and Informal Women's Groups in the Middle East' (Berg, 1997). The Alliance also produced a shadow report, 'Beijing +15', assessing the situation of women fifteen years after the 1995 Beijing conference, within the framework of UNIFEM.

The Alliance for Arab Women is an Egyptian non-governmental organization that operates as an umbrella organization for a network of NGOs. It cooperates with other Egyptian and Arab organizations to give women human security, and it works to influence policies and legislation while providing services and programmes within the framework of human rights work. The Alliance has held consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) since 1996. It was selected as coordinator of Arab NGOs to prepare for and participate in the 4th International Conference on Women held in Beijing in 1995, and to deliver the Arab NGO declaration to the United Nations General Assembly in 2000. Its secretariat is located in Cairo, and it has branches in governorates in the north and the south of Egypt. The organization's work is referenced in Dawn Chatty and Annika Rabo's 'Organizing Women: Formal and Informal Women's Groups in the Middle East' (Berg, 1997). It also produced a shadow report titled 'Beijing +15', assessing the situation of women fifteen years after the 1995 Beijing conference, within the framework of UNIFEM.

• Selected as coordinator of Arab NGOs to prepare for and participate in the 4th International Conference on Women in Beijing.

• Granted consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).

• Delivered the Arab NGO declaration to the United Nations General Assembly.

• Published the 'Beijing +15' shadow report within the framework of UNIFEM.

Umbrella NGO network advocating for women's human security and influencing policy and legislation in Egypt and the Arab world.

1. 1Alliance for Arab Women — Wikidatawikidata.org
2. 2Alliance pour les femmes arabes — Wikipédiafr.wikipedia.org