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 thought to have been victims of aggravat...
The present report is based on information verified by the United Nations, primarily through the monitoring, analysis and reporting arrangements on conflict-related sexual violence established pursuant to Security Council resolution 1960 (2010). It focuses on sexual violence as both a t...
In 2017, the Lebanese organization Kafa joined the international #MeToo movement and started campaigning for the adoption of the sexual harassment bill, approved by the Council of Ministers in March 2017, and submitted to the Chamber of Deputies, but which has since been placed in the d...
Dans cet article, Daniela Nadj réfléchit sur la décision d’attribuer le prix Nobel de la paix 2018 à deux militants contre les violences sexuelles contre les femmes dans les conflits, Nadia Murad et Denis Mukwege, et explique comment ceci présent...
This website aims to provide both general information on the different types of sexual violence, as well as practical information about the various support services and associations that exist in Belgium to support victims of sexual violence. The website was launched by the Federation ...
With the rise of new technologies and political, social and economic shifts, new models of non-normative intimate, sexual and maternal relations are emerging in the south of the Mediterranean. Whether related to birth control practices such as abortion, contraception etc. or to the practices of b...
Widows and their children, already among the least fortunate in the world’s social and economic systems, are receiving even more challenges than usual as a result of the emergence of new conflicts and wars, the economic collapse and stagnation, and diseases such as Ebola. ...
Les théories féministes des relations internationales analysent les rapports de pouvoir à l’échelle mondiale et établissent l’articulation entre les champs domestique, national et international, estimant que le « réalisme&...
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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