Let’s pause for a holiday recap! We bring you a selection of initiatives in which the Foundation has taken part, to better understand the present of the Euro-Mediterranean.
Read our latest collaboration with Wikigender on the economic participation of women in the Western Mediterranean, and relive the Generation Equality Forum!
Check out the results of our collage contest!
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.
The situation of persons with disabilities in the Euro-Mediterranean region is far from being fully satisfactory. Many countries have improved their legislative environments, with advances affecting positively this social group throughout the last...
At the occasion of the Generation Equality Forum, 2GAP presented on 1st July 2021 its webinar: “The power to decide to change the world. ” Following this event, the collective was pleased to officially launch its global platform. During...
Ever since its creation, in 2014, the Secretariat of the Euro-Mediterranean Women’s Foundation is located at the European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed). In July, 2021, the IEMed launched a new website that includes all its upcoming...
On June 30, the round table “COVID-19 in the MENA region: What Gender Policy Responses Do We Need?” brought experts together to explore the inclusive gender responses needed for a better future for women and communities in the region....
International Non-Binary Day, celebrated around the world every year on July 14th, is an occasion to lift up non-binary members within the LGBTQ community. At a time when young people’s identities are being targeted by legislation in multiple...
The Feminist Collective for the Generation Equality Forum, which brings together more than a hundred French, European and international civil society organizations, based on a universalist and intergenerational approach, in continuity with the...
Euro-med rights issued the following piece of news on "Online Gender-Based Violence: What Scenario For The MENA Region ?"The 2011 Arab uprisings kicked off a decade of online activism in the MENA region. Blogs and social media became tools of...
The Euromed Feminist Initiative hast just released the following statement: Stop the Killing and Ethnic Cleansing of PalestiniansThe colonial policies and practices by the Israeli State against Palestinian families in Sheikh Jarrah neig...
On April 21, 2021 the kick-off meeting of the project BRIDGES was held virtually. Coordinated by CIDOB, BRIDGES seeks to understand the causes and consequences of migration narratives in a context of increasing politicization and polarizationBy...
In an event, last week under the EU Support to Egypt’s National Population Strategy project, Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria, and Patriarch of the See of St Mark signed three declarations to support family planning and combat female...
On Friday, March 19, 2021, the President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced his decision to withdraw from the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (Istanbul Convention). This...
Check out the results of our art contest "Collaging a Gender-Equal Future: Tailoring the Transformations of the Euro-Mediterranean Space", launched together with the European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed) as part of the...
CAWTAR held a virtual meeting on social-friendly media content to support women’s leadership through the use of modern technology. The meeting was aimed at journalists from local and regional media organizations. CAWTAR’s training...
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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