News and events / Calendar

05 Mar
2021


  • Documentary centre
  • Conference / Debate / Forum
  • Civil and political rights
  • Egypt

The Women of the Midan : the female body as a site that shaped the revolutions in the Arab world from 2011 to this day

Association for Middle East Women’s Studies is co-sponsoring a book talk with Brown’s Center for Middle East Studies featuring AMEWS Book Award Honorable Mention Winner Sherine Hafez on March 5 at 12 pm EST: The Women of the Midan...

01 Mar
2021


  • The Foundation
  • Ceremony / Events
  • Culture / Sports / Leasure
  • Spain

Our Illustration Exhibition Drawing 4 Equality keeps touring Barcelona!

From the Espai Antoni Miró Peris, our illustration Exhibition "Drawing 4 Equality: Challenging gender roles on both sides of the Mediterranean" moves to la Barceloneta, to the public library La Fraternitat. The exhibit portrays the selected...

27 Feb
2021


  • The Foundation
  • Ceremony / Events
  • Miscellaneous
  • - Euro-Mediterranean region

Visit our photography exhibition on gender stereotypes, now in Can Trona (Vall d'en Bas)

The Euro-Mediterranean Women’s Foundation’s photography exhibition "Dones trencant barreres. Transformant les ciutats mediterrànies" ("Women breaking barriers. Transforming Mediterranean cities") is now hosted by Can Trona,...

25 Feb
2021


  • Network of networks
  • Conference / Debate / Forum
  • Health / Emotional and sexual life
  • - International

Book presentation on bisexual resistance

ADHUC’s member Mònica Rius Piniés is the director of the UNESCO Chair Women, Development and Culture. On February 25, 2021, the Chair organizes a book presentation on Resistencia bisexual. Mapas para una disidencia habitable,...

18 Feb
2021


  • Network of networks
  • Conference / Debate / Forum
  • Civil and political rights
  • Palestinian Authority

The Women Peace and Security Agenda Under Occupation

The General Union of Palestinian Women in partnership with Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) would like to cordially invite you to a discussion ahead of the #HRC46 on the gendered impacts of the Israeli occupation...

17 Feb
2021


  • Network of networks
  • Conference / Debate / Forum
  • Civil and political rights
  • - Euro-Mediterranean region

Online public debate - Bridging the sea: What are regional civil society's challenges in the Mediterranean?

Med Dialogue for Rights and Equality EU-Programme launches its new digital publication, called “Bridging the sea: a review of Mediterranean civil society ”. Based on the findings of an extensive mapping survey research, the...

11 Feb
2021


  • Network of networks
  • Scientific meeting
  • Education / Professional training
  • - International

Evidence and experience: Adolescent Girls'Education in the Generation Equality Forum

To celebrate International Education Day, UN Women, France and Ireland are organizing a series of dialogues on the following topic: "Evidence and experience : Adolescent Girls’ Education in the Generation Equality Forum".  Organized in...

02 Feb
2021


  • Network of networks
  • Ceremony / Events
  • Culture / Sports / Leasure
  • Spain

Palestinian Mai Masri tailors the classic section of the Arab and Mediterranean Film festival of Catalonia

In November 2020, the Arab and Mediterranean Film Festival of Catalonia reached its 14th edition to keep giving voice to Arab and Mediterranean cinema. Due to the pandemic, the festival adopted an online format, and some films were cut from...

27 Jan
2021


  • Network of networks
  • Conference / Debate / Forum
  • Economy / Employment
  • - Euro-Mediterranean region

ONLINE DEBATE - Women in a men's world: how gender defines the path to success

Our societies are still delineated by gender stereotypes that determine societal responsibilities, roles and behaviours. In this context, gender is still an important social bias and women who aspire to have a career are still facing the question...

27 Jan
2021


  • Network of networks
  • Conference / Debate / Forum
  • Education / Professional training
  • - International

Young Women leading Tech and Innovation

The leaders of the Action Coalition on Technology and Innovation for Gender Equality are organizing a roundtable to invite and involve youth organizations in the development of the Action Coalition blueprint.  This will be the opportunity...

08 Jan
2021


  • The Foundation
  • Ceremony / Events
  • Culture / Sports / Leasure
  • Spain

Drawing 4 Equality will be displayed in Barcelona, in January and February 2021

Despite the difficulties of our current times, our illustration exhibition Drawing 4 Equality: Challenging gender roles on both sides of the Mediterranean is back on the move. The exhibition will be in the Espai Antoni Miró Peris (in...

04 Dec
2020


  • Network of networks
  • Conference / Debate / Forum
  • Culture / Sports / Leasure
  • - Euro-Mediterranean region

Conference In, on, around, across the Mediterranean: Challenging representation

In, on, around, across the Mediterranean:Displacement, ethics and the challenge of representation in fiction, drama, lifewriting and the visual artsBlue skies and sunny beaches – rickety boats perilously crowded with migrants. Space of...