Our Newsletter N.11 is now available! We are proud to present you the new study about gender-based violence in Marrakech – Safi elaborated by the Federation of Women’s Rights Leagues in Marrakech-Safi with the participation of NGOs, the...
One of the most striking events of the month was "No Demand No Supply" – a performance conceived and directed by Sahar Assaf in collaboration with the American University of Beirut (AUB) Theater Initiative. The performance was based on...
Under the high patronage of the Ministry of national solidarity, family and women’s conditions, a conference was organized on 13th May 2017 in the graduate school of social security by the Association des femmes en économie verte - AFEV...
On May 9, the Foundation attended the opening of the Course: Women of the Future in the Mediterranean (FAM) which took place in Paris. This course consisted of a series of classes and workshops on gender, politics and leaderships designed to...
Crowd Funding Campaign to promote gender equality and preventing violence in the Mediterranean Region. Ideaborn Foundation has launched One School, One Year! This campaign aims to meet the real needs of both the students and teaching professionals...
Saturday 20th May 2017, Royal Institute for Amazigh Culture (IRCAM), Rabat. A meeting was organized, last Saturday 20th May 2017 in the Royal Institute for Amazigh Culture Rabat-Morocco (IRCAM), by the Women’s Network for Mentoring /...
Fifty years ago, on December 19th, 1967, the French parliament adopted the Neuwirth Law legalizing contraception. During the same decade in France and in many other parts of the world, the use of new medical methods of birth control – such as...
Trafficking in women and prostitution have shot up in Lebanon in the last years due to the difficult social and economic situation and the influx of refugees, including many vulnerable women and girls. Thus, the country has become a hub, a place of...
The study visit of Ms. Iman AbdelRahman Musa, Director of HIWAR Center for Youth and Women’s Empowerment, Palestine in Bulgaria (8-12 May 2017) under project "CSO WINS: Capacity-building in the Southern Mediterranean to Open Policy Dialogue...
The industrial sector is extremely developed in Zarqa (Jordan) where it represents more than half of the national industry size. Actually the petroleum refinery Jordan, the Hussein Thermal station’s processing centers, and a free zone called...
The women' s magazine Hawaa, founded in 1955, is the oldest magazine in Egypt devoted to women and the family. It is one of the magazines of reference for women throughout the Arab world. In Arabic.
Site dependent on the Centre Marocain de Sciences Sociales (CM2S –Hassan II Ain Chock University, Casablanca) and the Groupe de Jeunes Chercheurs/euses en Sciences Sociales et Développement. The objective of the site is to promote...
Monthly German feminist magazine launched 34 years ago, created and edited by the journalist and feminist Alice Schwarzer. The magazine continues to express forthright feminist views concerning subjects such as pornography, prostitution,...
The French webzine Égalité releases online original and diverse information to make the gendered dimension of society visible and intelligible. Égalité raises awareness among a large public about achieving...
Clara magazine succeeded the weekly Femmes françaises, launched in 1945, which then merged with Heures Claires to become Heures Claires des femmes françaises. After 60 years, Heures Claires des femmes françaises and later Clara...
French women' s magazine, launched in March 2009, which sought to put an end to traditional women' s press by targeting women with articles with less "classical" and stereotyped subjects. The website features the contents and extracts from some...
Statistics and law texts. This website groups together all the documents on the legal work of the European Union. It is possible to find, through a search engine, specific documents on women’s rights.
In partnership with the corresponding Eurostat and the Helsinki Group on Women and Science, the Women and Science Unit of the European Commission collects data on women scientists. Its work comprises consolidated statistical news from a...
Eurostat features the whole of EU statistical data, classified by country and topic. The website offers the possibility to find gender data and documents on each topic.
Wikigender is a collaborative platform addressed to political decision makers and experts in both developing and developed countries aimed at finding ways to advance women-men equality. It provides a centralized space for the exchange information...
The Gender and Development approach promotes equal rights and equitable sharing of resources and responsibilities between women and men. As a methodology, the Gender approach produces a comparative analysis of the situation of women and men from an...
This publication presents articles written by prominent feminists, women´s human rights activists, academics and representatives from civil society in Latin American (LA) and the European Union (EU). The articles cover the following main...
The increasing reach of the internet, the rapid spread of mobile information, and the widespread use of social media, coupled with the existing pandemic of violence against women and girls (VAWG), has led to the emergence of cyber VAWG as a growing...
This brief looks at gender and speaking roles at European high-level conferences. The number of women who speak at key policy-shaping conferences across Europe is far below that of their male peers. In this brief, the authors have quantified the...
This paper aims to shed light on the status of women during and after armed conflicts and how international law deals with this reality in light of the evolution of the concept of human security. The paper intends to highlight the fact that...
The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, approved in September 1995 at the Fourth World Conference on Women, is a global pledge to attaining equality, development and peace for women worldwide. The Platform for action requires immediate...
This procedural manual, relating to the Equality, Equal Opportunities and Gender Approach Bodies (IEECAG), is to be considered as a procedural and technical guide available to the local communes. It is an informative and procedural reference, which...
This Report demonstrates that innovative cultural policies implemented at regional and local levels have a positive impact on the whole of cultural governance. It highlights the strategic frameworks best adapted to the digital environment, the...
This document is the final declaration of the 62nd session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW62) held in March 2018 in New York (USA). The document calls on all levels of government to take a set of decisive measures for gender equality...
This publication is designed to support stakeholders who wish to advocate for the inclusion of comprehensive constitutional provisions that protect and advance women’s human rights and fundamental freedoms. It presents good practices for the...
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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