Nicosia
Nicosia
Cyprus
- Democracy and community development
- Gender
- Human rights
- Youth and education
SWM is an NGO, working in a panciprian basis. We have district council and a panciprian board of administration. We are mostly a voluntary based NGO, we have one employee. We are member to Socialist International Women and Party of European Socialists Women. We have annual subscriptions and we have an annual funding from the National Mechanism of Women's Rights (Ministry of Justice). In addition we have funding on ad hoc projects from EU and or EEA Grands. Our main activities are seminars, and training workshops, informative campaigns. In addition to the above we are funding members of the Cyprus Women's Lobby (member of the European Women's Lobby) and of the National Antipoverty Network (member of the European Antipoverty Network). In addition we are members of the National Machinery of Women's Rights (Ministry of Justice).
Aims / goals of the SWM Our driving forces are feminism, democracy, socialism and solidarity. a) Activate women as social, political and economic factors. b) Elevate the status of Cypriot women in an environment of parity and equality. c) Establish friendship and solidarity among women from all over the world. d) Be involved in national issues, aiming for the liberation of the occupied part of our country from the foreign occupation. e) The safeguarding of human rights for all citizens regardless their religion, race, language, nationality or sex.
We are a grass root organization, therefore, we focus on activities and projects that are mainly needed for our members, like informative seminars and training workshops on equality, stereotypes, pensions rights, workers rights, health rights, trafficking, violence for women and children. We are also active in main gender issues such as pay gap, parity at all levels of decision making, participation, elevation of woman in the business environment, maternity/paternity rights, as well as the protection of human rights in general and or specific (LGTB rights, refugees and migrants protection). For all these issues, we do have seminars, workshops open not only for our members but any interested person, as well as we held, organize and or participate in campaigns promoting all the above. Last but not least, we do work towards reconciliation and a viable solution to the Cyprus Problem, based on UN and EU principles and we are working on closing the gap that the 42 years of separation created between Cypriots of the two main communities. In order to be even more active in that field, we are members of the Cyprus Dialogue Forum.
We are a female organization, a grass root female organization. We are active in our field of work. We believe that being a member of the ALF Network in Cyprus will provide us the opportunity to work even closer with other members towards commons goals. In addition we believe in the dynamics of networks and in the cooperation that can be achieved through the network at all levels.
Being a member of the biggest network on civil society organizations in the Mediterranean region will provide us with the opportunity to, not only work in a national level with other Cypriot NGOs, but also be able to find partners and work towards the accomplishment of our objectives in the whole Mediterranean sea. It is our common home, the problems are the same and we should work together to find solutions and compact them.