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Babaylan Denmark is part of the newly formed umbrella Organization of Denmark Women’s Minority Council

Filomenita Mongaya Høgsholm

Filomenita Mongaya Høgsholm

Filomenita Mongaya Høgsholm (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 Minoritetskvinders Råd

Etniske Minoritetskvinders Råd

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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