The National Mechanism for the Promotion of Women’s Rights is the authority responsible in Cyprus for the promotion of gender equality and women’s rights. It deals with all the issues related to women and bases its work on the elimination of legal discrimination against women and on the promotion of real gender equality. It participates in gender mainstreaming in all the national policies and programmes by encouraging the training of competent professionals within the public service in terms of gender equality, supporting the enhancement of research on gender issues, promoting the collection of data and statistics broken down by gender, and organising workshops, seminars and conferences.
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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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