On May 10, the Delegation of the European Union to Morocco organized a meeting in Rabat between Ms. Amina Byouz, President of the Anaouat Association and Ms. Irène Mingasson, Head of Unit of EU’s "Regional Programmes Neighbourhood...
20 women from Wilaya de Blida (Algeria) participated in a training on "Income-Generating Activities (IGA)", held on 20 and 21 April 2018 at the headquarters of the association Djazairouna in Blida. This training is part of a project run jointly by...
The ’’ Why Me for Women’s rights ’’ association recently launched an intensive campaign against the marriage of under-age girls which has become a widespread phenomenon in Libya given the security chaos, the difficult...
The Syrian Women´s Network has recently conducted several trainings and workshops on several issues related to gender equality, in collaboration with Ward Al Balad Forum, in the Turkish city of Şanlıurfa. 40 trainees...
This documentary film, which is produced by MIFTAH, tries to shed light on the importance of youth and women participation in decision making positions, particularly within the bodies and entities of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). The...
Between the 7th and the 11th of March 2018, the ‘’Free Sight Association” organized a training session targeting 25 civil society activists on topics related to international conventions and key international mechanisms for the...
In an interview with UN Women following the 62nd session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW62) held last march, Nehad Abo El-Komsan, Lawyer, Co-founder and Chairwoman of the Egyptian Centre for Women’s Rights, said that in the...
Women in the governorate of Ma’an (Jordan) experience vulnerability and marginalization due to male domination within the family but also in decision-making. The clans -groups of interrelated families- support men’s nomination to...
On the 14th and the 15th of April 2018, Tazghart Association organized two workshops to scrutinize and analyse available data and the views of number of female elected of different local authorities on how to advance women’s role within...
In March 2018, the Gender Alternatives Foundation launched a new project "The New Leaders - Preventing Gender-Based Violence (GBV) through Alternatives for Future Career Development." The initiative is funded by the Bulgarian Women Fund and will be...
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...
This report maps gender data gaps in developing countries across five domains of women’s empowerment: (1) health, (2) education, (3) economic opportunities, (4) political participation, and (5) human security. The report also suggests...
Lebanon holds a strategic location in the Mediterranean region, and its position contributes to making it simultaneously a country of origin, transit and destination for human trafficking. Lebanon has also become a country of destination for...
Inclusion and pluralism are fundamental values in open societies and the European Union. It is better for everyone to live in a society that is open to diversity, including religious diversity. Yet there is a rising threat in the European Union to...
Published on the occasion of International Women’s Rights Day, March 8, 2018, this report shows how gender is one of the most important social determinants of health and stresses that there is still work to be done to ensure gender equality in...
The 2008 financial crisis is considered by many economists to be the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. A deep recession, high unemployment rates, precariousness and instability are just few of the several seriously...
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...
The reproductive care of pregnant migrants entering the European Union via its Mediterranean borders represents an under-examined topic, despite a growing scholarly emphasis on female migrants and the gendered aspects of migration in the past three...
This study presents and analyses successes and good practices in the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) in the Arab countries. The study also analyses the obligations of the Arab...
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...
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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