FMH, Founding Chair of Babaylan got elected to the Executive Board of Danish Women’s Minority Council

FMH, Founding Chair of Babaylan got elected to the Executive Board of Danish Women’s Minority Council

Filomenita Mongaya Hoegsholm
FMH, Founding Chair of Babaylan got elected to the Executive Board of the new umbrella organization of immigrant women of Denmark,  which is now to be considered a sister organization to the Danish Women’s Council, which has given its support all the way.
Ms. F Mongaya Høgsholm has been a primus motor in the precursor to the current umbrella, in the multi-ethnic women’s organization SOLDUE which experienced its heyday in the years leading ot the UN Intl. Women’s Conference in Beijing in 1995.She coordinated the participation of Denmark’s immigrant women at such miliestones as the Nordic Forum (1994), the UN Social Summit (March 1995) and the UN Intl. Women’s Conference in Beijing/Huairou. In 1994, she was awarded the Grassroots Foundation Prize for SOLDUE magazine which she  edited from 1992-1997.

On the European level, FMH was elected VIce-President for two terms (1992-94 & 1994-96) and President (1996-98) of BWEN, Black Women and Europe Network. She established Babaylan Denmark in 1997, and since 2004 has been Board member of Babaylan Europe, the Philippine Women’s Network. She continues to be Editor in chief of  ABAKADA, the magazine on women, migration, integration and development established in 2001.

Nitnit as she is fondly called by friends and her family is the onlyAsian among 11 to Denmark’s Women  Minority Council which has a big job to do: change the negative image of migrant women, make women more visible,and facilitate their participation in the Danish Society in the labour market, in politics and in the Danish culture.

Below is the Article published in Women’s Council Newsletter (Kvinderådet Nyhedsbrev nr. 66)

Etniske Minoritetskvinders Råd er dannet

2 Oktober 2009

Etniske minoritetskvinder er godt trætte af deres misvisende image som ressourcesvage ofre. Nu har en lang række vidt forskellige foreninger dannet en ny paraply Etniske Minoritetskvinders Råd, som holdt stiftende generalforsamling i København d. 26. september.

60 kvinder fra mere end 20 foreninger var mødt op til generalforsamlingen, der havde valg af bestyrelse som vigtigste punkt på dagsordenen. De 9 bestyrelsesmedlemmer og 2 suppleanter er Tresor Kankindi, AKUDA (Afrikanske kvinders union i Danmark), Hawa Hirsi Hussein, Kvindehuset i Århus, Vanessa de Oliveira Stephensen, NOVUM (Netværk for Videreuddannede med Minoritetsbaggrund), Margrethe Wivel, Indvandrer Kvindecentret, Susanne Langer, United to end racism, Kvindefraktionen i Danmark, Bayan Saleh, Center for Women’s Equality, Hakima Lasham Lakhrissi, Danske-Internationale Kvinder, Annam Al-Hayali, Kringlebakken, Alma Bekturganova Andersen, Verdens Kvinder i Danmark, Filomenita Mongaya Høgsholm, Babaylan og Mudje Husein, Interkulturel Kvindeforening (ICWO)

Formålet med paraplyen er at være talerør for de etniske minoritetskvindeforeninger, platform for samarbejde med andre organisationer – og så skal paraplyen bruges til at understøtte medlemsforeningerne i det praktiske arbejde.

Konsulenterne i Kvinderådets projekt “Ind i foreningerne – ud i samfundet” har været fødselshjælpere for den nye paraply. Projektet har haft fokus på empowerment af de etniske kvindeforeninger og dannelse af netværk på tværs af etnicitet. Og det er til overmål lykkedes med dannelsen af paraplyen.

Med Etniske Minoritetskvinders Råd har Kvinderådet fået en søsterorganisation, og de to paraplyer kommer til at indgå i et tæt samarbejde.

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BABAYLAN Denmark participates at International Meetings

Filomenita Mongaya Høgsholm

Filomenita Mongaya Hoegsholm, Founding chair of Babaylan Denmark and co-founder of Babaylan EUrope is being invited as one of only two immigrant women in Europe to speak and participate at the CEDAW+30 celebration Roundtable on Women and Migration in Geneva, on November 4th. She will be representing WIDE (Women in Development Europe) and affiliated thru WIDE’s Danish platform KULU and member orgnaization Babaylan Europe.

The regional  event of celebrating CEDAW+30  is jointly sponsored by OHCHR, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, UN/ECE, the UN Economic Commission and UNIFEM, the UN Development  for Women.

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), adopted in 1979 by the UN General Assembly, is often described as an international bill of rights for women.  Consisting of a preamble and 30 articles, it defines what constitutes discrimination against women and sets up an agenda for national action to end such discrimination. Learn more about CEDAW by visiting their website http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/cedaw.htm

Global Forum on Migration & Delveopment

Prior to Geneva, Ms.Filomenita Mongaya Hoegsholm will be in Athens where she is Official Delegate to the GFMD (Global Forum on Migration and Development) Civil Society Days on Nov.2-3 and will go back to Athens to input at the PGA (People’s Global Action), the NGO part of this global gathering from Nov.3-5. Please check the officail website of the GFMD Greece for more details. After GFMD she will join the  Babaylan Europe’s Bi-annual Congress Nov.6-8.

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Presentation of Women’s Solidarity Magazine in Vienna

Filomenita Mongaya Høghsholm Women Solidarity Magazine, Vienna
Babaylan Europe Executive Committee member and Babaylan Denmark Founding Chair, Filomenita Mongaya Høgsholm is guest at presentation event of the Women Solidarity Magazine in Vienna on September 16, 2009.

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