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Dear WILPFers,</div>
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Please see information on some opportunities and resources. Please pass on the information to the members in your region!</div>
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<b>Free Webinar: Social Media Essentials for Local NGOs</b></div>
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📅 Date: February 4th, 2025<br>
⏰ Time: 10 AM CET , online<br>
🎙️ Speaker: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/isabelzbinden/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="margin:0px" target="_blank">
Isabel Zbinden</a>, Communication Specialist at <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/tdh-org/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="margin:0px;text-align:left" target="_blank">
Terre des hommes foundation</a><br>
🇬🇧 Language: English</div>
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✅ Register: <a href="https://locallink.childhub.org/en/child-protection-webinars/social-media-essentials-local-ngos" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="margin:0px" target="_blank">
https://locallink.childhub.org/en/child-protection-webinars/social-media-essentials-local-ngos</a> </div>
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<b>RINGO Gathering 11-12 Feb </b></div>
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<a href="https://rightscolab.org/ringo-gathering-2025-learn-connect-act/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="margin:0px" target="_blank">https://rightscolab.org/ringo-gathering-2025-learn-connect-act/</a></div>
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🌍📣 <b>New Online Educational Platform: Digital Organizing for Social Change</b></div>
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With the rise of disruptive technologies like AI and biometric cameras, online and offline spaces are becoming increasingly dangerous for activism and political dissent. It is urgent for civil society organizations and activists to gain the tools, strategies,
and capacities needed to counter mass surveillance, social media manipulation and disinformation.<br>
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The Digital Organizing Education Platform, empowered by <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/novact-international-institute-for-nonviolent-action/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="margin:0px;text-align:left" target="_blank">
NOVACT</a>, includes 10 interactive e-courses in collaboration with leading experts and organizations specializing in digital activism and strategic nonviolent action.<br>
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📚 In the Novact Academy, you’ll find courses in both Arabic and English on topics such as:<br>
1. Movement Building in the Digital Era<br>
2. Strategic Nonviolent Action in the Digital Realm<br>
3. Digital Security: Essentials to Protect our Activism<br>
4. Open Source Intelligence for Justice<br>
5. Systematic Conflict Analysis for Digital Campaigning<br>
6. Fighting Impunity: Documenting Human Rights Violations<br>
7. Digital Ecosystems: Aligning Infrastructures and communities<br>
8. Strategic Communication for Citizens Journalism<br>
9. Digital Storytelling: the Call for Action<br>
10. Digital Campaigning: Amplifying your Advocacy<br>
These free resources are designed to empower activists worldwide. Please share them widely with your networks!</div>
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👉 Access the courses here: <a href="https://academy.novact.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">
https://academy.novact.org/</a></div>
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<b>Call for submissions on the impact of CONFLICT on women and girls’ Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights</b></div>
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<span style="color:black">The UK All-Party Parliamentary Group on </span>Global Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
<span style="color:black">(APPG) invites short written submissions from interested organisations and individuals on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and
</span>CONFLICT</div>
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This APPG advocates for the full implementation of the International Conference on Population and Development Programme of Action and holds that universal access to contraceptive and SRHR services are paramount including in conflict affected/fragile situations.</div>
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<span style="color:rgb( 34 , 34 , 34 )">Members are looking for written evidence that addresses SRHR and
</span>CONFLICT<span style="color:rgb( 34 , 34 , 34 )">. Particularly welcome are written evidence and case studies
</span>from Afghanistan, Gaza, Sudan, Syria, Yemen, Haiti and Ukraine highlighting main SRHR challenges and solutions. Hearing focus areas are: </div>
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<div style="text-align:left">Current landscape of SRHR in Conflict - SRHR data, evidence and challenges</div>
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<div style="text-align:left">Gender Based Violence and SRHR in Conflict - GBV as a weapon of war, sex trafficking and child marriage</div>
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<div style="text-align:left">SRHR Services for GBV - Justice and Accountability</div>
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<div style="text-align:left">SRHR Healthcare - Reaching the most marginalised</div>
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<div style="text-align:left"><span style="line-height:16.8px">Collaboration/partnerships for universal SRHR in Conflict</span></div>
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<div style="text-align:left">Survivors stories</div>
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<div style="text-align:left">International and National obligations and strategic directions</div>
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<div style="text-align:left">Recommendations and Solutions for SRHR in Conflict - Immediate and long-term goal<span style="font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family:'arial' , sans-serif , serif , 'emojifont';font-size:11pt;color:rgb( 36 , 36 , 36 )">Written evidence
</span><span style="font-family:'arial' , sans-serif , serif , 'emojifont';font-size:11pt;color:black">should be submitted by email
</span><span style="font-family:'arial' , sans-serif , serif , 'emojifont';font-size:11pt;color:rgb( 36 , 36 , 36 )">in a word document
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</span><span style="font-family:'arial' , sans-serif , serif , 'emojifont';font-size:11pt;color:rgb( 36 , 36 , 36 )"><b><a href="mailto:kjaerbym@parliament.uk" style="margin:0px" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">kjaerbym@parliament.uk</a></b></span><span style="font-family:'arial' , sans-serif , serif , 'emojifont';font-size:11pt;color:black"> and
be <b>no longer than 3,000 words</b>.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:'arial' , sans-serif , serif , 'emojifont';font-size:11pt;color:black">Submissions must contain the name, organisation and contact details of the submitting</span><span style="font-family:'arial' , sans-serif , serif , 'emojifont';font-size:11pt;color:rgb( 31 , 73 , 125 )"> </span><span style="font-family:'arial' , sans-serif , serif , 'emojifont';font-size:11pt;color:black">person(s)/organisation,
including</span><span style="font-family:'arial' , sans-serif , serif , 'emojifont';font-size:11pt;color:rgb( 31 , 73 , 125 )"> </span><span style="font-family:'arial' , sans-serif , serif , 'emojifont';font-size:11pt;color:black">e-mail address.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:'arial' , sans-serif , serif , 'emojifont';font-size:11pt;color:black">Please note that written evidence may be posted on the APPG’s website following the hearings and select organisations/individuals will be asked to give oral evidence
24<sup>th</sup> or 26<sup>th</sup> February, 4-6pm or 3<sup>rd</sup> and 5<sup>th</sup> March, 4-6pm, House of Lords, Westminster, UK</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:'arial' , sans-serif , serif , 'emojifont';font-size:11pt;color:black"><u>Deadline for written submissions: 19</u><sup><u>th</u></sup><u> February 2025</u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:'arial' , sans-serif;color:rgb( 12 , 100 , 192 )"><b>Emilie Quenensse
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<span style="font-family:'arial' , sans-serif;color:rgb( 89 , 89 , 89 )">Tel:</span><span style="font-family:'arial' , sans-serif;color:rgb( 102 , 102 , 102 )"> +33 (0)6 58 68 31 81</span></p>
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