Young Women From Minorities
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A feminine
intercultural project within multicultural Europe
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Young
Women From Minorities (WFM) is a European
non-governmental organization created out a pilot project
set up during the Council of Europe's young campaign
"all different - all equal" whose major aim is
to bring together and promote the work undertaken by and
for minority young women's projects in Europe
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Our Aims and
Objectives
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To provide
information and training at European level to its
members and foster the cooperation between them. |
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To promote social
integration, help overcome discrimination and
exclusion. |
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To present Young
Women From Minorities in the relevant European
institutions or platforms and to establish links
and networks. |
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To carry out
European activities in the field of education,
training and research contributing for a better
participation of young minority women. |
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To promote and
support the creation and development of projects
initiated for and by minority young women. |
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Activities
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As a
European organizations, WFM's role is to organize
training and education activities which, at the European
level, can serve as examples and support to the national
an local projects. These include:
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Leadership
training courses; |
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Seminars on
specific issues of relevance to the European
dimensions of youth work with women; |
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Provision of
information about and access to the European
institutions of relevance for young women's
projects; |
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Supporting
network possibilities and contacts to local
partners and encouraging to the development of
youth work projects with young women; |
WFM publishes a regular newsletter, UMa. as
a mean of supplying its members and interested
organizations information about its activities and
European opportunities for young women.
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Membership and Structure
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Membership
to WFM is voluntary and open to associations or
individuals who:
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Share the
concerns of and are active in working with
minority women. |
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Pursue their
activities in the spirit of the international
conventions and declarations on Human Rights,
Minority Rights and Women's Rights. |
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Wish to cooperate
for the aims of a peaceful European integration
respecting the diversity and the rights of
minorities and for the promotion of the women
role in society |
WFM is registered European youth
organization based in Sweden
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Young Women from
Minorities "Mangkulturellt Centrums - 147 85 TUMBA
(Sweden)
fax: + 46 8 530 62 550; tel: + 46 8 530 62 564; e-mail: nadia.gomes@mks.botkyrka.se
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