IceFemIn at Political Leaders Global Forum 2020
IceFemIn organized a Leader’s Talk at the WPL conference in Harpa 9. – 11. November 2020. The topic was Women´s Empowerment is acutely important now. The reason for this statement is the situation in the world, where we see conservative and populist governments starting conflicts, threatening our…
IceFemin at Women’s Leaders Global Forum 18.-20. November 2019
IceFemin organized a workshop or “Leaderstalk”: The Icelandic Story – How Women Changed the Political Landscape from 10.40 – 12.00 o’clock at The Women Leaders Global Forum on Wednesday 20. November 2019. Guðrún Agnarsdóttir, a former Member of Parliament for the Women’s Alliance (WA) chaired…
The annual meeting of IceFemIn 2019
The annual meeting of IceFemIn was held 16th February 2019 in Hannesarholt at Grundarstígur in Reykjavik. Last year’s activities were discussed and a draft of our Working plan presented. A lively discussion followed about IceFemIn’s activities and our possibilities to contact women in other countries…
IceFemin á Women Political Leaders Global Forum (WPL) 2018
IceFemIn participated in the conference Women Political Leaders Global Forum (WPL) that was held in Harpa, Reykjavik Iceland 26 – 28 November 2018. We had a discussion session under the agenda Leaders Talks that was one of many 1,5 hour parallel sessions. In our session…
Plan A – Gender is not plan B in the arctic
We were happy to meet and share our stories with Gosia Smieszek and Tahnee Prior. They represent the organisation Plan A – Gender is not plan B in the arctic, and were participating in the conference Arctic Circle in Iceland in October.
New Website Launch
We are excited to announce the launch of our new website www.icefemin.is Our goal is to create a platform where we can tell the story of how initially a handful of women in Iceland managed to make themselves heard and initiate a fundamental change in…