GenderHopes
Information on the purpose of your organization
GenderHopes is a Monaco-based non-profit organization, registered in 2012. It aims to combat gender-based violence and discrimination by raising awareness, informing policy-makers and the general public and by highlighting negative stereotypes that promote gender-based violence and discrimination.
Information on your programmes and activities in areas relevant to the subject of the Summit and in which country or counties they are carried out.
GenderHopes works at the local and international level to raise awareness about gender-based discrimination and violence.
We work in Monaco, France, UK, Rwanda and Burundi.
Information on activities at the national or international levels
Within Monaco, GenderHopes has led a research project on domestic violence and has produced an information campaign including the launch of a support website to assist individuals experiencing domestic violence in Monaco. The website www.MonacoSaysNoToViolence.org was launched in 2013. GenderHopes also lobbies for the full implementation of the CEDAW Convention by Monaco.
GenderHopes is also working to raise awareness on the importance of girls? education to change the world. GenderHopes hosted a screening of the movie Girl Rising on 11 October 2013 and Miss Representation in 2014, to mark the International Day of the Girl. It also screened The Mask You Live In in early 2015.
On the international level, GenderHopes is working on the Election Monitoring and Political Participation in Africa project for the London-based NGO Make Every Woman Count. It conducts research and interviews and contributes to the annual report.
GenderHopes also provides mentoring sessions to young female college students in Rwanda.
Organization have an annual report? (YES/NO) (should contain financial statements and a list of financial sources and contributions, including governmental contributions)?
No -
List of members of the governing body of your organization, and their countries of nationality
Vibeke Brask Thomsen, Director, Denmark
Russell Carty, Treasurer, Great Britain
Belinda Ogden, Programme Coordinator, Great Britain
Copy of the constitution and/or by-laws of the organization (WORD or PDF only), or a weblink to it
GenderHopesStatutsdelAssociation.docx
