{"id":5887,"date":"2022-09-27T16:17:32","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T16:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelfoundation.org\/?p=5887"},"modified":"2022-09-27T16:17:32","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T16:17:32","slug":"wrn-convenes-afghan-canadian-womens-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/2022\/09\/27\/wrn-convenes-afghan-canadian-womens-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"WRN Convenes Afghan\/Canadian Women&#8217;s Symposium\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In light of<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> the ongoing humanitarian and human rights crises Afghan women face, the <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelfoundation.org\/grants\/wrn\/\">Women\u2019s Regional Network (WRN)<\/a> recently convened <a href=\"https:\/\/www.womensregionalnetwork.org\/canada4afghanwomen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Afghan\/Canadian Women\u2019s Symposium: Building a Better Future Together<\/a>, Sept. 26 and 27, 2022, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.<!--more--> The purpose of the convening was to \u201canalyze and bring light to the reality on the ground for women in Afghanistan, highlighting the needs of Afghan women both inside and outside of Afghanistan, and presenting the Government of Canada with a series of calls to action.\u201d WRN, a network of women civil society leaders, has worked since 2010 to advance women\u2019s rights and regional peace in Afghanistan,\u202fPakistan, and India, and is a longtime Channel grantee partner. The Calls to Action developed by Afghan women in Canada, in consultation with women across the globe, can be seen as \u201ca roadmap for the Government of Canada and its allies. They highlight the most pressing needs and priorities of Afghan women both inside and outside of Afghanistan and identify policy responses which Canada can pursue to ensure their Afghanistan response aligns with their Feminist Foreign Policy and Feminist International Assistance Policy.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:2,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:336}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In light of the ongoing humanitarian and human rights crises Afghan women face, the Women\u2019s Regional Network (WRN)<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[123,126,77],"class_list":["post-5887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-updates","tag-asia","tag-na","tag-wrn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}