The Women Graduates Society in the Gaza Strip hosted the Minister of Culture, His Excellency Dr. Atef Abu Seif, in the presence of the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Press House, Mr. Bilal Jadallah. They were received by the...
The Children of Female Prisoners Association, headed by the writer Nawal Mustafa, won the Samuel Habib Award for Excellence in Creative Voluntary Work. The Association committed to rehabilitate the female prisoners in situation of poverty and to...
The Community Media Center held the meeting in the village of Al-Aqsa University in Gaza in Mawasi Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, as part of a series of activities and events implemented by CMC throughout the month of March in honor of...
This Tuesday, March 8, on the occasion of International Women’s Rights Day, Angeline C.-F., 54, settled in front of the gates of the Bastia court, to begin her first day of hunger strike.Victim of domestic violence, this woman who extricated...
On Monday, March 7, 2022, the Community Media Center in Gaza inaugurated the activities and events of March 8th, International Women’s Day, by launching a digital advocacy campaign on the hashtag #protectionisaright, with the participation of...
Like every year, to commemorate International Women’s Day, Barcelona City Council announces the March 8-Maria Aurèlia Capmany Award to reflect on a topic of social and gender impact. For this 36th edition of the award, the theme chosen...
The CMC implemented a capacity-building program to prepare trainers in promoting legal awareness against Gender-Based Violence, in partnership and funded by Terre des Hommes- Switzerland. Andalib Adwan, Director of the Community Media Center, said...
The CMC held the second edition of the photographic exhibition that sheds light on various aspects of Palestinian women’s life, and reflects their different roles in society. This activity comes within the "Gender Equality in the Occupied...
The Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) will continue to raise awareness and promote women’s rights by providing policy recommendations to close the gender gap in the Euro-mediterranean region. In this sense, UfM will join the international...
The Forum Femmes Méditerranée (FFM) de Marseille is organizing an international short story competition on the theme “Tomorrow the Mediterranean”. Rules: It is aimed at women from countries around the Mediterranean who...
Queer feminist perspectives on political homophobia and anti-feminism in the Middle East and Europe Digital Conference, September 24 – 25, 2021 This two-day digital conference aims to bring together researchers, activists, and community...
On 11 October 2021, the Centre Hubertine Auclert presents the synthetic report "Violence experienced by women and men in Île-de-France: Family, couple, studies, work and public spaces. Data from the virage survey - 2015." A videoconference...
22 September 2021. Sustainability and inclusiveness are at the heart of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, promoting strategies that place equality of access at the center of attention. The multiple sectors captured under the notion...
In the aftermath of 9/11 a crucial intervention, Transnational Feminist Practices Against War, challenged dominant ideologies of war and xenophobia emerging through the War on Terror. Please join the authors as they reflect on this statement 20...
In 2020, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung’s Political Feminism project in the MENA region commenced a project in partnership with Solidarity Is Global Institute in Jordan (SIGI-Jo) that aims at developing a set of principles for national mechanisms...
The situation of persons with disabilities in the Euro-Mediterranean region is far from being fully satisfactory. Many countries have improved their legislative environments, with advances affecting positively this social group throughout the last...
The Centre for Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London, organises a mini-series on Remnants of the Iraq Wars: Iraqi Literature Twenty Years after 9/11 7 September 2021 – Iraq: Corporeality & Memory. Iraqi literature, 20...
The Centre for Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London, organises a mini-series on Remnants of the Iraq Wars: Iraqi Literature Twenty Years after 9/11 7 September 2021 – Iraq: Corporeality & Memory. Iraqi literature, 20...
This two-day digital conference aims to bring together researchers, activists, and community organizers to discuss how discourses on gender and sexuality have evolved in the Middle East and Europe amid the rise of far-right and authoritarian...
Description: This 10-week seminar is designed for students who want to start research with a feminist theoretical framework. While this course focuses on technique, it also hones in on the theoretical background of feminist research including,...
This animated video was launched by UN Women Jordan, during the "16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence" campaign. The video revises the negative connotations associated with the CEDAW Convention among the general public in Jordan –...
To celebrate International Women’s Day 2017, Oxfam Great Britain’s Regional Gender Justice Programme is launching Manarat (Lighthouse), a digital comic campaign to tell the stories of Pioneer Women from the Middle East and North Africa...
Krim plastico’s company was born to address the issue of environmental damage in the municipality of El bayadh (wilaya of Oran). This situation encouraged Mrs. Rachida Krim to take the leadn and to create her own enterprise while the sector is...
The project "Do not touch my rights!” is funded by the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI), for a period of 12 months from 1 October 2015, with the aim of: - Strengthening the professional capacities of women and improving their economic...
A conference on professional gender diversity in early childhood under the patronage of the Ministry of Childhood, Families and Women’s Rights, was organized under the heading “Gender diversity in early childhood” coordinated by...
Organization of a short stories international competition that aims to generate literary vocations and promote women’s writings.It addresses never published, either in print or electronically, women from around the Mediterranean. To have women...
This new educational exhibition for the general public is meant to raise awareness and combat sexist stereotypes in professional segregation. It should particularity concern associations and public bodies in charge of promoting employment. This is...
The “Jeunes et Femmes” (youth and women) project was launched in 2010 by the Mission locale des Ulis in response to problems of isolation, desocialization, scholastic failure, teenage pregnancies and/ or violence against young women. The...
Between 2013 and 2014 the « egalicrèche » program in Toulouse has conducted a very uplifting research on social and professional interactions in 3 pilot structures. It concludes that early childhood professionals’ gestures...
In 2012, the Laboratoire de l’Egalité (equality laboratory) launched media campaign, coproduced by the agency Mediaprism, during the presidencial election of 2012 in France. The ‘Pacte pour l’égalité’...
The Council of Europe is looking for one (or several) provider(s) with diversified and high added value expertise related to gender equality, the fight against violence towards women and domestic violence, the fight against...
Are you a young researcher from the Euro-Mediterranean region? Are you interested in exploring the green and digital transition nexus with economic, migration and security developments? The EuroMeSCo Youth Forum is part of the Euromed Young...
MSMEs in the Mediterranean region face important challenges in terms of sustainability, capacity to innovate, competitiveness and internationalization. These challenges call for new solutions to maintain their existence and to enhance growth....
Deadline extended to 25 June, 2021 (included). The EuroMeSCo network belongs to the IEMed, one of the Euro-Mediterranean Women Foundation’s founding members. Euromesco is happy to announce that the Call for Joint Study Groups has...
APPLICATION SUBMISSIONS GUIDELINE: How to apply: Please submit to jobs@kohljournal.press, with “Communications Strategist” as the subject line: a cover letter a CV two references an example of an online or offline...
On the occasion of the Generation Equality Forum which will bring together heads of state from around the world at the end of June to talk about gender equality, #NousToutes and the Génération Féministe collective are launching...
As part of its involvement with InnovAgroWoMed (an ENI CBC Med Project) in Tunisia, CAWTAR will offer free and integrated training, to accompany and support women interested to find job opportunities in the agri-food sector, in the state of...
A Sea of Words 2021: Youth and mobility. Towards a Euro-Mediterranean citizenship Since 2008, the IEMed and the Anna Lindh Foundation organise "A Sea of Words", a literary contest aimed at youth (18-30 years) from the...
Participate in the Generation Equality Forum, which will be held in Paris from June 30 to July 2. It is a multi-actor and intergenerational gathering: it encourages all kinds of participation. The Forum kicked off in Mexico City from...
Contemporary Medusa is an interdisciplinary international peer-reviewed journal (published regularly twice a year) dedicated primarily to publishing manuscripts that speak to the major issues in Gender Studies. The journal considers publishing...
Coinciding with the 25th Anniversary of the Barcelona Process adopted in 1995, and the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and its Platform for Action, the Women4Mediterranean Conference has served as a milestone to...
The Moroccan media, both traditional and digital, does not offer visibility or support to feminist claims in Morocco. This is the view of the Moroccan journalist and women’s rights activist Fedwa Misk, who has given a lecture at the IEMed on...
During summer 2020, the Arab Institute for Women has put together a list of women/LGBT/queer/refugee/migrant-led and -focused initiatives and contents in Lebanon for interested people follow, fund, and support. It includes Online Resources,...
Through the voices of young feminists and LGBTQI activists, this podcast addresses issues of freedom, public space, language, as well as decolonial thinking. It was produced on the occasion of a workshop by Charlotte and Samuel in Tunisia at the...
Dr Lucia Sorbera (Chair of Department of Arabic Language and Cultures) interviews Visiting Professor Nicola Pratt (Reader in International Relations at Warwick University) about the shifting approaches within feminist Middle East scholarship. The...
The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) Gender Statistics Database contains data on the numbers of women and men in key decision-making positions across a number of different life domains in order to provide reliable statistics that can be...
The School for a Culture of Peace was created in 1999 with the aim of organizing academic, research and intervention activities related to the culture of peace, conflict analysis, prevention and transformation, peace education, disarmament and the...
The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) offers new in depth publications and reports for the 2019 analysing the Gender Equality Index in every EU Member States. Each year the European Institute for Gender Equality scores EU Member States...
Organisations’ Resources, Initiatives, Campaigns, Statements, Calls & Opportunities on COVID-19 Our Members Nazra for Feminist Studies, EGYPT: Declaration on WorldHealthDay 7 April about COVID-19 (English,...
Here is a growing list of different resources disseminated in the media that provide in-depth considerations on the short- and long-term consequences of the pandemic from a gender perspective. Some of the pieces are written from a global framework,...
The current generation of Arab feminists is young, cyber-active and artistic,and vocally attacks social taboos. Their agendas are headed by issues of publicand private gender-based violence, legal discrimination and human rights violations. Despite...
Globally, during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, reports of domestic abuse have increased. Using scientific and newsreports about violence against women during COVID-19 and the changes it implicated in society, this article speculates howdifferent...
WHAT IS THIS TOOLKIT FOR? Use this toolkit to design and implement your own Girls Get Equal campaign for girls’ leadership and power in your own context. WHO IS THIS TOOLKIT FOR? This toolkit is for all of us – you, me, your friends,...
The complex and evolving security threats the EU is facing, such as organised crime, terrorism, cyberviolence and hybrid threats, have placed security high on the political agenda of both the previous Commission (2014–2019) and the current...
The following report highlights the Unstereotype Alliance’s progress in 2020. It encompasses tools produced across the Alliance to address inequalities within advertising content, a deep dive into the 76% growth in membership during 2020, the...
Alert 2021! Report on conflicts, human rights and peacebuilding is an annual report analysing the state ofthe world in terms of conflict and peacebuilding basedon three main axes: armed conflict, tensions, gender and peace and security. The analysis...
Peace Talks in Focus 2020. Report on trends and Scenarios is a yearbook that analyses the peace processes and negotiations that took place in the world during 2020. The examination of the development and dynamics of negotiations worldwide allows to...
This national report is produced within the framework of "COALESCE: Legal, psycho-social and economic empowerment for the integration of women third-country nationals (TCN) victims of human trafficking (VoT) for sexual exploitation and abuse"...
Gender is central to Global Land Tool Network’s overall Strategy for 2018–2030. The Gender Strategy presented here reflects and reinforces this. It focuses on securing women’s and girls’ land tenure, land-related...
The year 2020 was a difficult one for gender equality. The coronavirus pandemic had a disproportionate effect on women and girls around the world. Women were often front-line responders against COVID-19, experiencing direct exposure to the virus but...
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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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