Watch the webinar organised by the EMWF and the IEMed on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Three gender experts from the MENA region discuss the impacts of GBV this year.
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Explore our members’ activities and publications in the month of the Elimination of Violence Against Women !
Get access to women’s helplines in the Euro-Mediterranean countries; initiatives, campaigns, and statements; articles, essays, news and press releases.
In partnership with UN Women Maghreb, and as part of its “Women, Peace and Security program”, Aswat Nissa, who advocates for gender mainstreaming in public policies, organized a conference on 4 October in Tunis to present the...
On the 12th of November 2020, The European Commission presented the first-ever EU Strategy for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, non-binary, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) equality, as announced by President von der Leyen in her 2020...
Press release by the Delegation of the European Union to LibyaThe UN Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security on 31 October 2000. As we mark its 20th anniversary, the Ambassador of the European Union t...
This monthly-held seminar, bringing together the entire LEGS-Laboratory for Gender and Sexuality Studies, but open to the general public, puts the notion of translation –in the linguistic sense but also cultural and political– at the...
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...
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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