Education is considered as an important factor in enhancing a person’s opportunities in social and economic mobility. However, leaving school at an early age remains a problem, to which poverty and being female are generally associated with. To further analyze this issue, the Psyc...
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 achieving women’s security is no longer limite...
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 action by all to generate a just, humane a...
Syrian Women refugees in Lebanon are at increased risk of multiple forms of violence, this paper highlights the reasons behind the special vulnerability of Women refugees in Lebanon, such as: the unplanned and overcrowded refugee settlements; the lack if adherence to International standards of hu...
This report overviews the consultatiions for the general recommendations of UN WOMEN For Arab States &The Committee on Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW Committee) on women human rights in situations of conflict and post-conflict in the Arab region.It highlights the general c...
Child marriage (underage marriage) is a phenomenon that has been frequently discussed as a widespread issue in Syrian society, especially in the refugee and IDP communities. Such marriages are a violation the rights of Syrian girls, in addition to effecting their future and excluding them from a ...
This article examines this underexplored dimension of violence against women (VAW) in political conflicts, by identifying risk environments and lived realities of violence experienced by women in the Syrian conflict. The article gives a multi-level analysis of women’s experiences of violenc...
This report highlights some experiences in responding to Gender-Based Violence (GBV), in countries with limited capacities (Central African Republic, Libya, Pakistan, Myanmar, and Papua New Guinea). It points out what has worked in these countries in the field of fighting GBV, and concludes with ...
This study discusses gender-based violence (GBV) in disaster settings, with the aim of improving the response and work of the Red Cross/Red Crescent movement, and other humanitarian actors.Among the questions asked in the study are: In what ways should legal and policy frameworks, including disas...
After the Syrian uprising, different types of media emerged, basically as an alternative to the state´s media.This report addresses the issue of gender equality in Emerging Syrian Media (ESM) and investigates whether the dominant discourse and social practice exacerbate existing levels of i...
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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