In English
The Portuguese Platform for Women’s Rights is a social, cultural and humanist non-governmental organisation, independent from political parties, religious institutions or governmental structures, whose members are women’s rights NGOs. It was created on November 12th 2004 and its main objective is to foster cooperation for collective reflection and action in the promotion of women’s rights and gender equality through several means, such as research, lobbying, dissemination of information, awareness-raising and training.
The Platform wishes to contribute to the empowerment, articulation and mobilisation of Portuguese Women’s Rights NGOs and to the reinforcement of its networking and cooperation relations with European and International NGOs working in this field, in order to strengthen and support these NGOs’ important social role as actors in the process of implementation of gender equality. Therefore, the Portuguese Platform for Women’s Rights represents Portugal in the European Women’s Lobby and the Association des Femmes de l’Europe Méridionale. The Platform also aims to contribute to the implementation of gender mainstreaming, particularly in the context of the media, as social institutions with an important role in the transformation of mentalities and dissemination of information.
The organisations that were involved in the constitution of the Platform were: Aliança para a Democracia Paritária (Alliance for Parity Democracy), Associação de Mulheres Contra a Violência (Association of Women against Violence), Associação para o Desenvolvimento das Mulheres e Crianças Ciganas Portuguesas (Association for the Development of Portuguese Gypsy Women and Children); Intervenção Feminina (Feminine Intervention), Graal (Grail); Mulheres Século XXI (XXI Century Women), Rede Portuguesa de Jovens para a Igualdade de Oportunidades entre Mulheres e Homens (Portuguese Network of Young People for Gender Equality and Associação para o Desenvolvimento e Formação Profissional de Miranda do Corvo (Association for development and training from Miranda do Corvo).
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