Syrian women sheltering in countries surrounding Syria, or undertaking the long and perilous journey to Europe with their children, are faced with intolerable choices. As they yearn for safety, dangers are ever-present; while exiled in camps, travelling, and anxiously waiting to cross borders.Thi...
Despite the progress made by Tunisian women towards gender equality, different types of discrimination still exists in many areas in Tunisia.This is a summary of a study that was conducted, as a part of the project of the national study on "gender-based violence in public space in Tunisia". The ...
The report provides an analysis of methodological options in the existing literature and studies, on the costs to society of intimate partner violence. It includes a case study on this issue in the UK during 2012, and provides a calculation of the costs in the EU. The report aims at supporting po...
This toolkit is designed in order to support the provision of medico-legal services to victims of sexual violence, especially at low-resource and conflict-affected settings. It aims at improving the coordination between the range of actors and sectors involved in prevention of, and response to, s...
This manifesto, which was issued by several civil society organizations in Egypt, aims to follow-up, monitor and evaluate the’ ‘National Strategy to Combat Violence against Women'', that was launched by the National Council of Women in May 2015. The undersigned organizations made seve...
Cet article jette la lumière sur la situation des femmes qui ont été violées durant la guerre en Bosnie. Il se fonde sur des entretiens à différentes survivantes et explique combien ces délits ont bouleversé leurs vies et leurs rel...
This report highlights some of the UN Women’s work and initiatives during the year 2015-2016, it provides summary financial statements, a list of new programmes and projects, and contact information. It explains the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development which recognizes the transformative...
The report explores the situation of data collection in specialist women’s support services in Europe with the aim to map existing data collection methods and systems in Europe (in the European Union and other European countries). The report gives an overview on the situation of data collec...
This report sheds the light on the women’s rights in Morocco after the implementation of the Beijing programme. If focuses on the main challenges civil society organizations face in applying the recommendations. Jossour then proposes its own proposals to implement what stated in the Beijing...
This report examines the extent to which Middle East and North Africa States have responded to their international obligations in accordance with the due diligence principle of protecting women from and preventing all types of violence. It attempts to do so by investigating States’ measures...
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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