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Miscellaneous - Spain - Conference proceedings

High Level Conference Women for the Mediterranean 2022

Created 05.04.2023

On the occasion of the 5th Ministerial Conference on Strenghtening the Role of Women in Society, which took place in the morning of 26 October 2022 in Madrid, Ministers responsible for gender equality from the 42 member states of the...

Miscellaneous - - Euro-Mediterranean region - Article

Mediterranean Women Breaking Barriers

Created 28.02.2023

In the Euromed Ministerial Conference in Barcelona in 1995 it was declared, for the first time, that civil society was one of the main actors for achieving peace, security and development on both Mediterranean shores. In 2005, ten years after this...

Civil and political rights - France - Article

Les Cahiers du Ref - Mediterranean youth get involved - Empowerment, creativity, hopes and struggles

Created 18.11.2022

The REF – French Euromed Network, is not a youth association. It is a network of multi-thematic French civil society organisations involved in the Mediterranean, working on human rights, gender equality, artistic and cultural issues,...

Economy / Employment - Spain - Article

Youth, Women and Employment in the Mediterranean Region: Continuity and Change

Created 07.09.2022

The Union for the Mediterranean’s (UfM) 5th Ministerial Conference on Employment and Labour, held on 18 May this year in Marrakesh (Morocco), gave ministers the chance to address the issue of unemployment, particularly affecting young people...

Education / Professional training - - International - Study / Report

Missed Opportunities : The High Cost of Not Educating Girls

Created 27.07.2022

Too many girls drop out of school prematurely, especially in low income countries. Low educational attainment for girls has negative consequences not only for them, but also for their children and household, as well as for their community and...

Miscellaneous - - International - Article

The gendered impact of armed conflicts

Created 24.05.2022

War negatively affects every person, including men, women, and non-binary genders. Although we have access to only few sex-disaggregated data on the extent to which armed conflicts have repercussions on gender discriminations, it is possible to say...

Culture / Sports / Leasure - Morocco - Article

Storytelling in Morocco

Created 12.05.2022

Bochra Laghssais hails from one of the oldest civilizations that we know of, the Amazigh civilization in North Africa. The Amazigh’s history has been an oral history and no ancient texts survive due to the oral nature of this culture....

Economy / Employment - - Euro-Mediterranean region - Article

Vulnerability or agency of Resistance and empowerment of indigenous women in Morocco

Created 12.05.2022

The intersections of various inequalities impact the lives of Amazigh women in Morocco. This work deals with the situation of special vulnerability that these Amazigh women live: by being women, indigenous and  rural. And it is that...

Education / Professional training - Maghreb - Article

Manifestation of Empowerment in Mernissi's Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood

Created 12.05.2022

This paper analyzes women empowerment and its manifestation in Fatima Mernissi’s (1994) book Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood. Mernissi describes her early childhood growing up in the harem in Fez, Morocco, in the 1940s. Despite...

Miscellaneous - - Multi-country - Study / Report

Sahrawi refugee camps and Sahrawi refugee women: a unique phenomenon in North Africa

Created 11.05.2022

After her historical introduction to the Sahrawi conflict, the author of the report on Sahrawi refugee camps, Inès Daoudi, focuses on the situation of women in this context. She discusses the political will to integrate these women and their...

Types of Violence - Palestinian Authority - Article

Testimonials of gender-based violence from Palestine

Created 03.05.2022

The Community Media Center (CMC) has published a series of testimonies, in the format of short stories, of women living in Palestine and suffering different types of violence. Hadeel Gharbawy, Sahar Alnahaal, Raghda Madi, Hana Abu Quta,...

Civil and political rights - - Euro-Mediterranean region - Study / Report

2021 Regional Progress Report on Gender Equality: UfM Regional Dialogue on Women Empowerment in the Euro-Mediterranean region

Created 30.03.2022

The UfM launched the first-ever Intergovernmental Monitoring Mechanism on Gender Equality in one of the Senior Official Meetings of the UfM Member States in 2020. This ongoing reporting exercise allows measuring and reporting of the progress made...

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 Europe and Foreign Affairs 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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