30.09.2008 

Sissi Prader, the Director of Women’s Museum of Merano, Astrid Schönweger, the curator, and Sabri Najafi, a member of the organization comittee of the prize HRI 2008, had a meeting with our mater of the congress, Shirin Ebadi, and her translater Ella Mohammadi at Venice on sunday, 28-09-08.

Topics were the HRI-Prize 2008 for Nasrin Sotoudeh and her coming to the presentation of prizes to Merano the 12th December. Mrs. Ella Mohammadi comes without charging anything to translate Mrs. Nasrin Sotoudeh. It is her contribution to the engagement of the women’s movement in Iran. Thank you very much, Ella!

Mrs. Shirin Ebadi explained that the women’s museum of Iran can be built in two years. There are four women who take part in the organization team. Also Shirin Ebadi is part of the organization-team. The women’s museum of Iran will be part of the network womeninmuseum.

There will be a financing of newsletter-abonnements for the women’s library of Iran.

Mrs. Shirin Ebadi agreed to be part again as mater of the International Women’s Forum of Merano which will be organized by the women’s museum of Merano in 2010.

30.09.2008  Omima Mustafa Ahmed writes: “Warm greeting form Sudan and the Sudanese women museum. It was pleasure to meet you during the first international congress of Women’s museums. I really apologize for delaying the translation of the resolution to Arabic Language I was so busy with my office work, so sorry for the delay.” We have not all translations until now, Omima, no problem! Good luck to the women’s museum of Sudan!

30.09.2008  Freda Dröes writes: “Sorry that you had to wait so long for a answer. First holidays and then exiting times. We got money from the municipal of Amsterdam to prepare an building and we are perhaps near in getting a building. I, as director of the FemArtMuseum (in construction) read you’re your resolution and the projects of network. I agree with them. I feel part of the network. I want to be on the flyer with the FemArtMuseum. But I have a board and I want to ask them if they agree also.” Dear Freda, so we wait for the answer of the board and we are happy that you feel yourself part of the network womeninmuseum!

30.09.2008   Here the news from Iran, also in an Arab version:

Shirin Ebadi will receive tomorrow the Toleranzpreis at the Akademie Tutzing in Germany (for more details to this award, enter: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toleranzpreis). For further information (German) please enter: http://www.epv.de/node/4209 

In Farsi, enter: http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,3657460,00.html?maca=per-rss-per-all-1491-rdf

There is also an interview with Nasrin Sotoudeh in the feminist-school.

30.09.2008  

Catherine King from IMOW, San Francisco writes: 

“Thank you for keeping the network going strong and I intend to participate as I can. The blog is wonderful and I am grateful that you have been posting I.M.O.W. news. I also saw the note from Erin Skinner at the National Women’s History Museum and am interested to learn more about their plans. Because they focus on American women, and we are international in reach, our content is very different, but I hope we can forge a connection. 
Our search for the permanent site in San Francisco continues, but the final building has not been selected. An opening date is hoped around 2012 but cannot be predicted.”
As we are no more allowed to change something on www.womeninmuseum.org we will do this in another place when we have it.

30.09.2008  Maritza Villavicencio from the Women’s Museum of Peru wrote to the Women’s Museum of Merano, that she is sad she couldn’t participate at the Congress in June 2008, but she wants to be part of the network womeninmuseum. So, we have another museum taking part in our network!

11.09.2008   There is a new initiative of women’s museum in Berlin (Germany) called “Frauenwelt. Ein Dokumentationszentrum der Hälfte der Menschheit e.V.” Contact person is Dr. Carolin Krings-Lazovsky. She visited the Women’s Museum of Merano and had a long talk with Sigrid Prader, the director of the museum. This initiative has a project of a exposition on wedding.

11.09.2008   We have a new member: the women’s museum of Peru: Museo Memoria de la Mujer Peruana. President is Maritza Villavicencio and she wants to have contact with the museums of the network!

11.09.2008

Her Vote. Her Voice?

September Focuses on the Power of a Vote

Does voting really give women a voice? In September, the Women, Power and Politics global online exhibition looks at the women who have fought for the vote Then and Now and travels to Kuwait—the most recent nation to grant women the vote—for Kuwaiti Women’s 1st Election Day.

Our September podcast introduces you to Saudi Arabian business woman and activist Rasha Hifzi, who speaks from and about one of the few countries where women cannot vote.

Melinda Henneberger, U.S. political journalist and author of If They Only Listened to Us, gives us insight into what every political candidate is aching to know: What Women Voters Want. Pulitzer Prize nominee Susan Griffin, who just published her new book, Wrestling with the Angel of Democracy, takes on voter apathy by answering the question Why Vote?

Curator Masum Momaya makes voting personal by sharing her own voting experiences and asks what is on many women’s minds: Do Women’s Votes Really Matter? I.M.O.W. community participants from six countries answer with their inspiring Voting Memories. Share your own voting memories in our featured forum thread throughout the month.

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A Moment for Your Feedback

Take 10 Minutes for the Women, Power and Politics Exhibition Evaluation

The International Museum of Women is currently conducting an evaluation of the Women, Power, and Politics global online exhibition. We would like to invite you to participate in a brief online survey about how the exhibition has impacted your life.

Your feedback is very valuable to us! The survey will take about 10 minutes of your time.

Take the Survey http://tinyurl.com/imowsurvey

If you prefer to complete the survey in Arabic, French or Spanish, please contact the project evaluator, Deborah Puntenney, Ph.D., at d-puntenney@northwestern.edu to receive a translated version via email.

Thank you for your feedback. We look forward to hearing your comments

Final Chances to be Featured in Women, Power and Politics

Now Accepting Submissions for October and November

I.M.O.W. wants your essays, art, photography, film and other creative work for our final Women, Power and Politics monthly topics! This is your opportunity to be chosen as a featured community voice within the exhibition. Submit your work now for the final categories:

• October: Campaigns and Elections

  We’ll be looking at the many ways women candidates experience campaigns and elections. What’s it like to campaign? What does it take to win elections? Submit before September 15, 2008 to be considered for a featured story.

• November: Women Working Together Across Borders

  How do women working across international borders share strategies and issues? What happens when they return home? Submit before October 15, 2008 to be considered for a featured story.

For more information, visit www.imow.org/submissions

Why So Few Women in Entertainment and Politics?

Girls’ Club Entertainment Asks for Your Thoughts

Help shape a new documentary project on women’s under-representation in entertainment and politics. Girls’ Club Entertainment, founded by I.M.O.W. Board Member Jennifer Siebel Newsom, makes the link between what we see on the silver screen and what plays out in the political arena. Both cast a picture of women’s exclusion from power and the need for change.

Read more about the issues in Girls’ Club Entertainment’s community story, Why So Few Women?, and share your thoughts in the featured forum thread.

Join I.M.O.W. Today and Make a Difference

Now is the time to show your support for the future of I.M.O.W. If you’re not yet a member, please join today and be part of this innovative and unique social change museum. As a member, you’ll receive discounts on Speaker Series tickets, special invitations to events, up-to-date information on women’s issues worldwide, and much more!

Your membership makes a difference in the lives of women and girls around the world. Join Today!

Happenings Around the World

September 10 - San Francisco, Cal USA & Worldwide Three U.S. women started a successful networking group they named SKIRT (Sharing Knowledge, Information, and Resources Together) and decided to share what they learned in a book. If you purchase a copy of SKIRTworking: How to Network Using SKIRT on its launch day, September 10, a portion of all proceeds will be donated to I.M.O.W. and you’ll receive a free “entrepreneurial swagbag.” Learn More >

October 19-22 - Manila, Philippines The Center for Asia-Pacific Women in Politics and Women’s Environment & Development Organization (WEDO) invites you to the Third Global Congress of Women in Politics and Governance Focus on Gender in Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction. Learn More >

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10.09.2008    Please have a look on the page of the feminist school of Iran: http://www.femschool.org/english/spip.php?article146