Our Newsletter N.10 is now available in English and French! Find out about the news, documents, events... shared recently in our network. Also, we'd like to welcome our new members!
Every year, the Foundation selects 7 associations from the Southern Mediterranean (Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia) with the goal of creating 7 local clusters of gender equality actors to work on a specific issue...
In Tunisia, despite women’s expectations, their presence in decision-making positions remains low. The association Chemin de la Dignité (ACD) chose to identify the issues that limit women’s presence in political and public life...
Masculinities in the Euro-Mediterranean area is the topic of the next research seminar of RUSEMENG.Male chauvinism does not only provide stereotyped roles for women. Men are also the object of a gender-based categorization, which indicates what...
Trafficking in women and prostitution have shot up in Lebanon in the last years due to the difficult social and economic situation and the influx of refugees, including many vulnerable women and girls. Thus, the country has become a hub, a place of...
The industrial sector is extremely developed in Zarqa (Jordan) where it represents more than half of the national industry size. Actually the petroleum refinery Jordan, the Hussein Thermal station’s processing centers, and a free zone called...
Our Newsletter N.10 is now available!It includes news about the CSO WINS advocacy campaigns in Libya and Egypt related to women’s civil and political rights and women’s economic empowerment.You will learn more about...
Last 8th December 2016, the kick-off seminar for the initiative "Strengthening the capacities of equality actors”, funded by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development (MAEDI) and empowered by the Foundation, took...
Gender and culture are both key elements and cross-disciplinary issues for the development of the Southern Mediterranean and advocacy is a priority for the civil society actors who work in these fields. For this reason, synergies have been...
Women’s participation in political and public life is one of the most concrete signs of their emancipation. In Tunisia, despite women’s expectations, their presence in decision-making positions remains low because of many factors such as...
In Palestine, women and youth are underrepresented in local councils, in political bodies and in the public life. Decision-making positions are held by middle-aged men. Therefore, the association The Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of...
In Morocco, the legal framework supports equality between women and men, as evidenced by the introduction of the instance 79.14 under the Moroccan law, which is the instance of parity and the fight against all forms of discrimination. Nevertheless,...
Our Newsletter N.9 is now available! It includes news about the CSO WINS advocacy campaigns and other projects in favor of women's rights, other news about different members of the Foundation's networks, a list of the associations and...
The European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed) is offering a position to provide technical support in the Documentation Centre of the collaborative Internet platform on gender equality in English, French and Arabic as a component of the...
In Libya, most of female-owned businesses and start-ups are not officially registered. Women often use social media and online-based outlets to promote their businesses in order to avoid government’s registration fees and the complicated tax...
The Jusoor Center for Studies and Development is a Libyan non-governmental organization which is committed to independent policy research and to encourage human development through economic and social empowerment projects. The aim of Jusoor is...
Between 2013 and 2014 the « egalicrèche » program in Toulouse has conducted a very uplifting research on social and professional interactions in 3 pilot structures. It concludes that early childhood professionals’ gestures...
A series of classes and workshops to train young women in their professional and personal development will take place in France, in a program created by the research university Sciences Po and coordinated by PRESAGE. This initiative is funded and empowered by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development (MAEDI).
This platform is part of the Axis 1 “Strengthening the capacities of equality actors” of the Priority Solidarity Fund “Women for the future in the Mediterranean” funded by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development and led by the European Institute of the Mediterranean, in the framework of the project “Developing Women’s Empowerment” labelled by the Union for the Mediterranean.
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