Si la présence des femmes dans les institutions égyptiennes a varié beaucoup au fil du temps, les femmes et les filles en Egypte sont représentées en nombre relativement faible par rapport aux femmes des autres pays de la région MENA et de l&rsq...
On April 1st, 2019, Hiwar Center for Youth and Women’s Empowerment organized a policy dialogue in Ramallah (Palestine) on women’s participation in public life. The event aimed at raising political parties, politicians and the broader public’s awareness o...
The “Women in politics: 2019” map, created by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and UN Women, depicts global rankings for women in the executive and parliamentary branches of government as of 1 January 2019. The map shows progress towards gender equality in these areas at ...
Suite à sa campagne de plaidoyer en faveur de la parité dans les conseils municipaux qui a contribué, avec d’autres initiatives, à augmenter le nombre d’élues en Tunisie (les femmes ont représenté 48% des élu-e-s aux &e...
The 2012 World Development Report recognized that expanding women’s agency - their ability to make decisions and take advantage of opportunities is key to improving their lives as well as the world. This report represents a major advance in global knowledge on this critical front. The v...
Il existe encore à l’échelle mondiale une sous-représentation structurelle des femmes dans le champ politique traditionnel, y compris dans les postes à responsabilité. En Tunisie, malgré un engagement de longue date des femmes au sein de m...
The publication brings to light the scourge of violence against women in elections. It seeks to identify the specific components of violence against women in elections, including types, tactics, victims and perpetrators, and presents options for policy and programming responses based o...
In the spring of 2011 when citizens in Arab countries rose up against their regimes, it appeared that the “third wave” of democratization had begun in the Middle East and the Maghreb, and that countries would embark on successful democratic transitions. Issues such as the ge...
Malgré un cadre juridique favorable à l’égalité des chances dans les mécanismes de l’action politique, la présence des femmes dans les organes élus reste insuffisante dans les collectivités territoriales du Maroc. Ce di...
On July 3rd 2018, the municipal council of Tunis elected Souad Abderrahim as the city’s first female mayor. Abderrahim, a 53-year-old pharmacist and former MP from the Muslim Democratic Party Ennahda, is also the first elected female mayor of a capital city in the Arab world, and ...
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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