about
us
who
we arewho we are
CAWN is run by a management committee that provides technical advice with their expertise. All members of the committee are gender specialists and offer their services to CAWN on a voluntary basis. The committee is comprised of seven women who mainly work in the international voluntary sector, they are gender experts, academics, ex workers from the textile industry and labour rights activists. The ethnic background of the Committee is varied in age and nationalities, comprising women from Mexico, Honduras, Greece, Australia, Scotland and England.
company secretary: Debbie Mace
co-directors: Marilyn Thomson (Chair), Amy North, Angela Hadjipateras, Pamela Reyes Zaballa, Yessica Alvarez Manzano, and Samira Yussuf.
programme and advocacy coordinator: Katherine Ronderos
finance officer: Debbie Mace
staff manager: Marilyn Thomson
interns: Jennifer Browne, Olivia Kirkpatrick, Laura Ouseley
We also depend on volunteers to support our day to day work and for the overall management of the organisation.
Centro de Estudios de la
Mujer - Honduras (CEMH)
CEMH was founded in 1986 as a civil not for profit organisation
without political or religious ties. The organisation’s mission
is to contribute to the elimination of different forms of discrimination
and violence against women, promote and contribute to the transformation
of the economic, social and cultural structure of the country in order
to procure a more inclusive society with social justice
and gender equality, and enable full citizenship and the human rights
of women. CAWN started an exciting project in September 2006 with
CEMH:
Movimiento de Mujeres Trabajadoras
y Desempleadas ‘Maria Elena Cuadra’ (MEC)
MEC has worked since 1993 with women workers in many different
sectors (workers in the garments-for-export processing industry, domestic
workers, tobacco workers, miners, informal-sector workers, small/micro
businesswomen, women without paid employment), raising awareness of their
rights and carrying out advocacy and campaigning work. It has a membership
of approx. 30,000 women workers from these sectors.From 2005 -2008, CAWN supported MEC’s economic literacy
campaing through the project:Promoting civil and economic rights of Nicaraguan Women
The project focused on economic literacy, aiming to use this to strengthen the capacity of poor women in Nicaragua to influence and participate actively in the formulation of gender-sensitive economic policies at the local, national and regional levels.
