The term Gender Based Violence (GBV) includes any harmful act that affects or is likely to affect a woman, a man, a girl or a boy whether physically, sexually or psychologically or causing them suffering because of their gender. It includes, but it is not limited to, sexual violence, d...
This website aims to provide both general information on the different types of sexual violence, as well as practical information about the various support services and associations that exist in Belgium to support victims of sexual violence. The website was launched by the Federation ...
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 trafficking for forced labour and sexual expl...
The Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) is a research and analysis tool that was introduced by the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) Development Centre in 2007. It calculates the level of gender discrimination present in the social institutions of ove...
This paper examines migrant domestic labor in the Middle East, with an emphasis on Lebanon as a case study. Lebanon has caught the spotlight for mistreating women migrant domestic workers in the Middle East, and this research focuses on the different factors that contribute to that mist...
The purpose of the project was to bring out the need for a shelter for women victims of violence in the wilaya of Oran where Algeria’s second biggest city (Oran) is located. In a first phase, the association Femmes en communication – FEC made a diagnosis regarding Violence a...
Cette plateforme de formation est le résultat du projet européen UEFGM, co-financé par l’Union européenne, sur lequel l’association Excision, parlons-en ! travaille depuis 2 ans avec les associations européennes spécialisées s...
The scale of violence against women is not reflected by official data in the EU, in many cases women don´t report violence, thus the only source in many cases is the official criminal justice data that are only able to record those few cases that are reported...This survey responds to a req...
Cyprus has a set of laws to protect its female population, they range from non-discrimination in the workplace, criminalization of different forms of violence against women and domestic violence, to a law on the prevention and combating of trafficking in human beings. Equality between men and wom...
This report provides facts and numbers about the reality of violence against Women in Egypt, a country that ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), although with reservations to Article 2 on policy measures and Articles 16 regarding marriag...
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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