This report aims to understand the risks that Syrian refugee families, especially women and girls, face in Jordan, and to provide a deeper understanding of Syrian urban refugees’ knowledge, attitudes, and practices towards gender-based violence. It was carried out with the participation of ...
The document provides an overview of the legislation in Tunisia on women's rights, one of the most modern in the Arab world, notably because it includes the right to abortion and access to contraceptives. It examines women's rights in the recent historical context of the revolution and the first ...
This document reports on a regional roundtable held on 15, 16 and 17 March 2010 in Brussels (Belgium) in the framework of an analysis of the situation of gender equality in eight southern Mediterranean countries. The roundtable aimed to debate the results achieved concerning the legal framework o...
This document offers a view of the legislation and policies related to gender equality in Italy, focusing on the progress achieved and the recent developments. It examines gender equality in the field of employment and reconciliation of work and family life, the presence of women in executive pos...
The first part of this report deals with EU world policies and instruments in terms of respect for human rights as well as their pertinence for women’s rights in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). The authors also provide a view of advocacy targets and opportunities ...
This document shows that in three decades Spain has become a "pioneering" country in terms of gender policies. Indeed, Spain has consolidated its institutional mechanisms and has developed a strategy aimed at promoting gender equality based on equal opportunities, positive discrimination actions ...
Every year since 2000, the Ministry of Women’s Rights and Equality between Women and Men at the General Directorate for Social Cohesion publishes a collection of statistical data in order to assess the role of women in society, at the political, economic and social levels. The 2010 edition ...
This is the fifth in a series of reports published since 1991 to analyse the status of women and men based on statistics on diverse fields of life. The report examines 196 countries and eight fields of action: population and families; health; education; employment; power and decision-making; viol...
La Conférence ministérielle euro-méditerranéenne qui s’est tenue à Marrakech en 2009 a permis d’envisager des actions concrètes pour renforcer le rôle des femmes dans la société. Lors de leur précédente ...
This handbook is aimed at professionals working in favour of women' s rights within NGOs in the UK. It presents the international human rights laws and several pertinent mechanisms to fight against violence against women (UN-related conventions, conferences and institutions). By establishing a li...
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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