This month, learn more about the complex scenario in Lebanon, see what’s going in Palestine, and find Calls and Opportunities from all over the Euro-Mediterranean space!
This summer, put on your reading glasses! We bring you a selection of material to sharpen your gender regard on the Euro-Mediterranean region.
See the results of the "Let’s name March 8" campaign, conceived to highlight the work of women and girls leading transformative projects and actions in the Euro-Mediterranean space that contribute to more equal societies.
Get access to women’s helplines in the Euro-Mediterranean countries; initiatives, campaigns, and statements; articles, essays, news and press releases.
19 October, 2015 in LisbonThe Portuguese Platform for Women’s Rights organises, with the support of the European Parliament Information Bureau, a seminar in Lisbon on women of the Euro-Mediterranean. The seminar will gather experts and a...
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is organising free online training workshops from September to November 2020 on 2 different themes: “leadership” and “digital marketing”. These trainings are...
From 7 to 11 September 2020, The Virtual Torino Forum for Sustaining Peace brings together the Women, Peace and Security community and the Youth, Peace and Security community for a new series of virtual discussions revolving around the overall...
June 19, 2020The adoption of guidelines on violence against women and girls is (in addition to being a clear reaffirmation of the universality of human rights) a mark of the EU’s clear political will to treat the subject of women’s r...
The Euro-Mediterranean Women’s Foundation and the European Institute of the Mediterranean thank all those who participated in the campaign “Let’s Name March 8”. This initiative was conceived to highlight the work of women and girls leading...
Thanks to the efforts of Ivanka Marković, president of the Council for Combating Domestic Violence, and the civil society organisations working with her, Domestic Violence in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina will be treated as a...
Breaking the silenceDate: Sunday, May 17, 2020 UN Women statement for the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia. Around the world, the COVID-19 pandemic is exacerbating existing inequalities, including those ba...
PRESS RELEASE – Council of Europe & European Union Joint Programme – South Programme On 24 April 2020, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe responded favourably to Tunisia’s official request to be i...
Since March 27, 2020 in Tunisia, the portrait of Tawhida Ben Cheikh decorates the new banknote of 10 dinars issued in the middle of the coronavirus crisis. Known to have been the first Muslim woman in the Maghreb to practice as a doctor, Tawhida...
Communication of the Council of EuropeAhead of International Women’s Day on Sunday 8 March 2020, Council of Europe Secretary General Marija Pejčinović Burić has called on all member states to change how rape is defined. In an opinion article...
On March 5, the European Commission presented its strategy for equality between women and men in Europe. While the EU is a global leader in gender equality and has made significant progress in the last decades, gender-based violence and stereotypes...
From the Ateneu L’Harmonia, our illustration Exhibition Drawing 4 Equality: Challenging gender roles on both sides of the Mediterranean moves to the Facultat de Traducció i d’Interpretació de la Universitat...
On February 26 and 27, the Forum on Women parliamentarians in the Middle East and North Africa took place in Tunis, organized by the Centre of Arab Women for Training and Research, CAWTAR, the Canadian Federal Forum and the Canadian Embassy....
In many armed conflicts and throughout history, rape and sexual violence were used as a weapon of war, as a tool to terrorize, intimidate and humiliate populations. During Croatia’s independence war, 1500 to 2200 persons, mainly women, are...
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