• Establishment of symbolic actions in the field. • Campaigns of denunciation of liberticidal laws and practices and / or awareness raising. • Participation in national and international platforms and meetings. • Popular education. • Fight against sexual harassment, especially in the public space. • Struggle for inheritance equality. • Fight against sexist discrimination and in favour of inclusive language. • Fight against gender stereotypes.
The EFU, on behalf of its affiliated NGOs, is the spokes-entity and observer for the rights of Egyptian women and its functions include: • Establish a database that includes all associations and institutions working in the field of voluntary and civil and interested in the affairs and rights of women. • Conduct research and studies on women's issues and disseminate the results of the studies. • To coordinate efforts between the various associations concerned with women's issues and rights • Provide technical support to associations and civil society organizations working in the field of women's issues to develop their future plans and strategies. • Strengthening and developing the capacities of workers and volunteers in the field of women's issues in NGOs. • Raising awareness regarding women rights.
• Initiative to combat harassment on the streets of Alexandria • Develop women's capacities through small-scale enterprise programs and provide financing and marketing channels • Documentary films on violence against women and children • Documentary films on violence against disabled people • Producing and performing plays involving abused children and battered women • Participation in awareness campaigns on women's health and against breast cancer • Participate in campaigns to train women on personal and public hygiene and their impact on health • Conducting radio workshops with juvenile centres and shelters for girls • Presenting a radio program on the problems of violence within the community (domestic violence - violence against children and women) • A radio program to change tribal customs against women (such as banning education, honour issues, minors’ marriage and female genital mutilation).
• Economic empowerment of women • Activities to fight against violence against women • Educating, training women on social and political participation • Assist marginalized women • Providing assistance to widows, divorcees and breadwinners
- Advocacy for the economic and social rights of rural women. - Follow-up of cases of victims of rape and undocumented customary marriages. - Registration of neglected children in the civil status registers. - reporting on the lack of respect for women's economic rights in remote mountain areas. -Realize projects to improve the income of women in difficult situations. - Participate in meetings and forums to communicate the voice of rural women and defend their rights.
This foundation was founded on 1 January 2011 with the aim of guiding the Azaghar’s girls from their village school in the high mountains of North Morocco to the High School in El Jebha. The foundation covers the financial and other needs of the girls for a period of one year, as to empower them and create opportunities for them instead of staying at home waiting to be married.
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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