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- EIN 20-3951175
- (202) 415-2446
- 1126 16th St Nw Ste 250 Washington DC 20036-4841 USA
- www.icanpeacework.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Centers to Support the Independence of Specific Populations, Human Services
Programs: Witnessing the transitions and upheavals in the middle east and north africa (mena). The organization initiated a womens rights peace and security program in 2011. The program has since expanded to include over a dozen countries and is focused on mena and adia regions, in particular in countries which are undergoing transition, repression, conflict and post conflict. The program works with women peace and rights activists and their civil society organizations in a number of countries including some of the following: iraq, egypt, tunisia, pakistan, turkey, morocco, sri lanka, lebanon, etc. The organization supports our network members as follows: 1) regional: networking/peer learning and country level capacity building; 2) international: ensuring the voices of women on the the ground are heard by international policymakers, and ensuring activists are key spaces, such as policy dialogues or conferences; 3) documentation: conducting research and producing gendered
the global network of women peacebuilders (gnwp), based in new york city, was an operating program of the organization starting in 2010. In 2015 ican and gnwp agreed to initiate a process to end the program sponsorship arrangement. As such gnwp incorporated as a new york based entity, and in 2016 put forth its application to the irs to acquire a nonprofit status. Effective may 16, 2017, gnwp is a separate 501(c)(3) entity and is no longer a program of ican.