Programs

Waha Center
Open University
International Roundtables 

Overview
In our search for alternatives to the dominant Worldview, El Taller seeks out regional voices and encourages conversations across cultures. In continuity with our vision we seek to work with diverse movements for human rights, peace, environment, women and indigenous peoples.

Our presence in the regions reinforces El Taller’s capacity for constructive reflection and action on the important issues of our times and enables us to facilitate south-south and north-south dialogue, to demonstrate our solidarity with social movements and to pursue actions rooted in the realities of the communities in each region.

Programme Initiatives:
Central America, South Asia, South East Asia, Africa, Maghreb/Mashrek.
The diversity of the realities in each region with common linguistic, socio - cultural and religious affinities gives rise to the need for exchange, co-operation and networking among both emerging and established community based groups, ngos and social movements and for a programme of capacity building, training and reflection on crucial issues. El Taller''s regional programmes in these regions offer such opportunities.

Some of our general activities include:

Seminars on key issues, eg. globalisation of the economy, democracy, migration, fundamentalism, development, poverty;
Research on civil society and the role of ngos;
Networking among ngos and social movements;
Exchanges with leaders of civil society from the South;
Solidarity and participation in international fora;
Training and capacity building workshops for ngos and civil society leaders.
Gender Perspective:
In the traditional human rights discourse, there is no place for women : the dominant paradigms of human rights and development have left out women – their experiences, meanings and symbols were not included in the repositories of knowledges. For we may speak of poverty but refuse the feminisation of poverty , acknowledge the violence of science, but deny the genderisation of that science, even count development victims but are blind to sexual economics, sexual politics.

El Taller seeks to add a voice for women in civil society through all its programmes which challenges the violence of patriarchy in its different forms, the patriarchy in tradition and the patriarchy in modernity.

All our programmes are infused with a gender perspective