The Egyptian Center for Women’s Rights (ECWR) issued its annual report on the Status of Egyptian women in 2017 under the title "Women’s Year Is Not Finished Yet". The report monitors the successes and failures of women in 2017, and it...
Maria Helena de Felipe, The Association of Organisations of Mediterranean Businesswomen (AFAEMME)’s President has been elected, last 15th March, chairwoman of EU-Euromed follow up Committee, in the Group of Employers, of the Economic and...
From March 21 to 31, 2018, representatives of Tazghart Association conducted a field visit to the headquarters of the various municipalities of Ifrane province where they conducted a survey and in-depth interviews with female elected to the local...
We are pleased to announce the 3 final winners of our photography contest "Powerful Women: Breaking Stereotypes in the Euro-Mediterranean Region". These 3 women will participate in a workshop at the 8th International Congress of Feminist Research in...
The IEMed’s Gender Programme participated in the research seminar of the interuniversity program Aula mediterrània. This seminar brings together each year scholars and students of 14 masters specialized in international relations,...
During this seminar held in Marseille on February 16, 2018, the discussion focused on the relationship between the academia and the associations and actors in the field. The participants discussed the interaction between research and action:...
The sixty-second session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) was held at United Nations (UN) Headquarters from 12 to 23 March 2018 under the theme of the empowerment of women and girls in rural areas. The event was organized by UN Women...
Since the formation of the Ministry of Environment in 1992, Lebanon has ratified several international agreements regarding the preservation of natural resources. For instance, in December 1994, the country adopted the United Nations Framework...
The CEDAW Association for Democracy and Human Rights launched its annual report on the situation of women in Egypt, especially in 2017, on the occasion of the Egyptian Women’s Day. This report sheds light on the conditions and achievements of...
The project EQUAL SPACE (2017- 2019) will enable more participation and empowerment of migrant and minorities women by developing trainings for Community Education Facilitators in the field of intersection of gender and diversity. Adult education...
CAWTAR groups together Greater Middle Eastern and Northern African countries. It provides the region with a research and study centre on gender and the status of women from an economic perspective. It also features mainly economic data, indicators...
This private, non-profit, non-political, international organisation brings together scholars and other persons interested in the study of women in the Middle East. The objective of the Association is to advance the study of women through annual...
Medstat is the regional statistics programme between the 27 EU Member States and 10 Mediterranean countries: Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestinian Occupied Territories, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey. The MEDSTAT programme seeks...
This website lists over 900 links to websites of study programmes, departments and feminist research centres on gender or on women.
The practice notes, regularly prepared by members of the DAC Network on Gender Equality (GENDERNET), provide guidance on how to address gender equality and women’s empowerment in development and cooperation. This assistance can also be found...
This page includes data and metadata for OECD countries and selected non-member economies. It offers ways to access data on gender in the section “social protection and well-being”.
Database on seven areas (Accessing institutions, Using property, Getting a job, Providing incentives to work, Building credit, Going to court, and Protecting women from violence) having a direct impact on women’s capacity to set out commercial...
This website is a one-stop source of information on gender at the country level, a compilation of data on key gender topics from national statistics agencies, United Nations databases, and World Bank-conducted or funded surveys.
On this website, gender disparities are measured using a compilation of data on key issues: education, health, participation of labour force, and political participation. This data is also listed under four main tabs: by country, by topic,...
The UNESCO Institute for Statistics is the main source of cross-nationally comparable statistics on national education, science and technology, culture and communication for over 200 countries and territories.
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...
On the occasion of the International Day of Migrants, on 18 December 2017, the High Council for Equality between Women and Men (HCE) presented to Minister Jacqueline Gourault, its report on the situation of women asylum seekers in France after the...
The following study is a first attempt to explore and better understand the demand for prostitution in Lebanon where little has been written on this critical component of the prostitution industry. Studies on male buyers of sexual acts are not only...
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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