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Wedad Sourani

Report on the compatibility of Palestinian labour law with the needs of working women on the Gaza Strip

Created by Wedad Sourani 582 days ago

The audit team of the report "The extent to which the Palestinian Labor Law is compatible with the needs of working women in the Gaza Strip" held a meeting with a...

Andalib Adwan

The Community Media Center (CMC) continues its work in advocating for the rights and issues of women and youth during the year 2023

Created by Andalib Adwan 596 days ago

Gaza - Community Media Center - February 2023 During the year 2023, the Community Media Center (CMC) will intensify its efforts to support and advocate for the is...

Andalib Adwan

Achievements that exceed the plan for the year 2022 by the Community Media Center (CMC).

Created by Andalib Adwan 622 days ago

Gaza - Community Media Center The Community Media Center (CMC) accomplished remarkable achievements during the year 2022 in terms of promoting a culture of human...

MARIA JOSE MARTINEZ

THE POWER OF STORIES; THE POWER OF WOMEN

Created by MARIA JOSE MARTINEZ 663 days ago

AIFED coordinates the project ‘The Power of Stories’ granted by SEPIE, the Erasmus Spanish National Agency Storytelling is an ancient form of communic...

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CLUSTER conducts Focus Groups to create inclusive training materials for young people and women

Created by Foundation's Team 812 days ago

With the aim of improving the employability skills of youth and women in the Mediterranean, CLUSTER is developing Curricula to train them in four sectors of sust...

Andalib Adwan

The Community Media Center implements a capacity building program to prepare trainers to enhance legal awareness to combat gender-based violence

Created by Andalib Adwan 959 days ago

The CMC implemented a capacity-building program to prepare trainers in promoting legal awareness against Gender-Based Violence, in partnership and funded by Terre des Hommes- Swi...

Mohamed Zaari

The Zakoura Foundation celebrates 25 years of commitment to human development

Created by Mohamed Zaari 989 days ago

Main achievements of the Zakoura Foundation: • More than 541,000 children, young people and women beneficiaries • More than 1430 schools created &b...

Rabha Fathi

AEFL kicks off its project Social Initiative to Combat Early Marriage

Created by Rabha Fathi 1052 days ago

Success Story: The Project of Combating Early Marriage. In cooperation with Equality Now in Lebanon, the Association of the Egyptian Female Lawyers (AEFL) started...

Esther Fouchier

A training programme to enhance Euro-Med interculturality

Created by Esther Fouchier 1336 days ago

Act for dialogue, be a plural citizen!  The project "Act for dialogue, Be a plural citizen!" (of wich FFM is a partner) aims to contribute to a better unders...

Riham Faqih

MIFTAH caps off four training workshops within its protection and promotion of women's human rights project

Created by Riham Faqih 1457 days ago

...mara Malouf from MIFTAH’s team said the organization was completing a series of interventions through this project, which will promote capacity-building in grassroots organizations a...

Events

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Mediterranean Tech Women Network Festival

Created by Foundation's Team 705 days ago

As technology becomes ever more integrated in our societies and everyday lives, it is of critical importance to foster equal opportunities for women and girls to t...

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Combating Violence Against Women and Girls: Human Dimension Seminar

Created by Foundation's Team 1071 days ago

The Human Dimension Seminar is an opportunity to discuss the implementation of relevant OSCE commitments and international human rights standards to combat...

Maria Àngels Roque

Euromed Young Researchers Forum 2021

Created by Maria Àngels Roque 1093 days ago

Green and Digital Transition in the Euro-Mediterranean: Youth Connecting the Dots Across Economic Development, Migration and Security”: During this yea...

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UfM-EMUNI Webinar: Women in blue economy in the Mediterranean

Created by Foundation's Team 1133 days ago

22 September 2021. Sustainability and inclusiveness are at the heart of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, promoting strategies that place equality...

Foundation's Team

Our Generation Equality - July 7, 2020

Created by Foundation's Team 1563 days ago

Generation Equality Forum Digital Event - July 7, 2020, 7pm PROGRAM HERE SPEAKERS HERE The General Secretariat of the Generation Equality Forum is organising th...

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The UfM organizes a regional dialogue on women empowerment

Created by Foundation's Team 1933 days ago

Representatives of ministries in charge of gender equality and women issues, national statistic institutions, regional and international concerned organizations, c...

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Meeting and debate on women's rights in the MENA region

Created by Foundation's Team 2142 days ago

On the 10th of December, 2018, the Center of Arab Women for Training and Research (CAWTAR) and the European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed) -two founding me...

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Researchers and Civil Society to Discuss Migrant Women in the Mediterranean

Created by Foundation's Team 2462 days ago

What are the possible bridges between the work of gender specialists and that of associations? How can we envisage the articulation between research and active fie...

Foundation's Team

Euro-Mediterranean Dialogue on Advocacy for Gender Equality

Created by Foundation's Team 2639 days ago

This dialogue will be held from 24 to 26 October 2017 in Casablanca (Morocco) as part of the CSO WINS project “Capacity-Building in the Southern Mediterranean to Open Polic...

Halouani Bechira

"Advocacy for Women's Candidates and their Election in Municipal Councils"

Created by Halouani Bechira 2786 days ago

Opening seminar of the campaign: "Advocacy for Women's Candidates and their Election in Municipal Councils" in the framework of the project CSO WINS « Capacity building in Southern Mediterranean to open policy dialogue and monitoring for women in society »

Shared practices

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Imams, preachers and community leaders fighting GBV

Created by Foundation's Team 2070 days ago

“Communicate for GBV” is a project implemented by the Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy (MIFTAH) in cooperation...

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Empowering Nefta's women artisans through cloth recycling

Created by Foundation's Team 2211 days ago

Co-founded in 2016, SHANTI is a social enterprise whose mission is to promote the design of innovative and creative solutions to the social, economic, cultural and...

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Success Stories following visits to companies run by women in Setif

Created by Foundation's Team 2269 days ago

As part of a field diagnosis on the development of female entrepreneurship in Setif (Algeria), the Women in Business of Algeria association (WIBA) organized a seri...

Life Foundation

'A Step of hope'Award for short film on women defying social stigma

Created by Life Foundation 2376 days ago

Life Foundation for development and community integration participated at Alexandria Short Film festival by providing a special award entitled ‘’A Step...

Cherifa KHEDDAR

Project: Do not touch my rights!

Created by Cherifa KHEDDAR 2782 days ago

The project "Do not touch my rights!” is funded by the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI), for a period of 12 months from 1 October 2015, with the aim...

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Campaign in favour of Parity in Municipal Elections in Tunisia

Created by Foundation's Team 2812 days ago

In 2016, several associations of Tunisian civil society and a few regional and international organizations launched a campaign entitled "Complete Democracy in Muni...

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Transformative Political Identities for Gender Equality-LANA

Created by Foundation's Team 2933 days ago

LANA project aims to increase women’s participation in decision making within the private and public sphere. LANA approach reflects a move from individual to collecti...

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Access to justice for women victimes of violence

Created by Foundation's Team 3067 days ago

...ase from the centers, and assured them more independence.  This practice has been identified in the framework of the CSO WINS project (Capacity-building in the Southern Mediterranean...

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Discrimination against women in the case of opening bank accounts for their children

Created by Foundation's Team 3121 days ago

In Palestine, according to the Act No. 8/2009, banks do not allow mothers to open bank accounts for their children, arguing that it is illegal. All banks are subject to the...

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Strengthening the political participation of Palestinian women

Created by Foundation's Team 3155 days ago

Although Palestinian women have always had an effective role in the Palestinian struggle on the ground, their political participation and representation in politic...

Calls and opportunities

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Deadline Extended for INVESTMED Project

Created by Foundation's Team 967 days ago

INVESTMED is an EU-supported project under the ENI CBC Med program, designed to address the economic and environmental challenges faced by micro, small and medium-...

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INVESTMED Call for grants: Business support organisations

Created by Foundation's Team 1054 days ago

INVESTMED is an EU-supported project under the ENI CBC Med program, designed to address the economic and environmental challenges faced by micro, small and medium-...

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Middle East Programme Officer at Euromed Rights

Created by Foundation's Team 1071 days ago

...EuroMed Rights advocacy actions towards the EU, Member States, and the UN, including organising/supporting advocacy missions, media events, capacity-building activities, communication wor...

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Senior Trainer, Med Dialogue for Rights and Equality

Created by Foundation's Team 1120 days ago

Med Dialogue for Rights and Equality is looking for a Senior Trainer to coordinate and carry out a capacity building bootcamp on Developing critical thinking t...

Caroline Brummelhuis

Call for applications for women entrepreneurs based in Tunisia

Created by Caroline Brummelhuis 1133 days ago

The British Embassy in Tunis is funding a programme to support business capacity building in Tunisia. The programme is delivered by OCO Global, a private sector or...

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Team Leader on Communications at EIGE

Created by Foundation's Team 1191 days ago

The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) is organising a call for applications with a view to establishing a reserve list for the post of Team Leader - Co...

Maria Àngels Roque

Call for Participants : IV EuroMeSCo Youth Forum

Created by Maria Àngels Roque 1198 days ago

Are you a young researcher from the Euro-Mediterranean region? Are you interested in exploring the green and digital transition nexus with economic, migration and...

Maria Àngels Roque

Call for women trainees on sustainable business management!

Created by Maria Àngels Roque 1206 days ago

MSMEs in the Mediterranean region face important challenges in terms of sustainability, capacity to innovate, competitiveness and internationalization. These chall...

Hedia Bel Haj Youssef

Training opportunity for women from Medenine working on the agri-food sector

Created by Hedia Bel Haj Youssef 1240 days ago

As part of its involvement with InnovAgroWoMed (an ENI CBC Med Project) in Tunisia, CAWTAR will offer free and integrated training, to accompany and support w...

Hala Bugaighis

Call for expression of interest from Libyan women civil society organisations

Created by Hala Bugaighis 1259 days ago

Call for Expression of Interest from Libyan Women CSOs to take part in the capacity development component of the Fa’ela: Tapping into Women’s Full Pot...

Resources

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The Doria Feminist Fund seeks to create a feminist ecosystem in the MENA region

Created by Foundation's Team 1099 days ago

The Doria Feminist Fund seeks to create a feminist ecosystem where the new generation of feminist movement in the MENA region has access to more and better funding...

Stephanie Willman Bordat

Promoting best practices in the state response to GBV in Morocco

Created by Stephanie Willman Bordat 1281 days ago

In Morocco, gender-based violence (GBV) remains pervasive, affecting all segments of the population irrespective of their age, ethnicity, education level or econom...

Ikrame Moucharik

What is feminist self-defense?

Created by Ikrame Moucharik 1337 days ago

By Ikrame Moucharik In 2012, we formed a feminist awareness group. Our first discussions concerned the violence that we suffer as women. One book particularly nourished o...

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Request a Woman Scientist: a platform to amplify women's voices in the public sphere

Created by Foundation's Team 1815 days ago

Even though women are a huge part of the scientific community and make up half of the population, women’s voices have been historically low or entirely absent in p...

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Al Mafroud: A documentary by Abaad on the change of gender roles during crises

Created by Foundation's Team 2493 days ago

Abaad Organization has recently launched an important documentary tackling the change of gender roles during crises and wars by highlighting the unique stories of...

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From where I stand...

Created by Foundation's Team 2499 days ago

UN Women launched this series to capture the unique and powerful stories of women around the world, through compelling first-person accounts of their daily sustain...

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Research projects on globalization, gender and mobility at the Colloquium in Tunis

Created by Foundation's Team 3049 days ago

Under the Colloquium on the “Globalization, Gender and Mobility” that took place in in Tunis, co-organized by the Euro-Mediterranean Academic and Scien...

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Project on the Status of women in the MENA region

Created by Foundation's Team 3102 days ago

IFES and the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) have united their years of experience in research and capacity building to enhance the status...

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Research projects on gender violence at the Research seminar in Tunis

Created by Foundation's Team 3179 days ago

Under the Research seminar that took place in the Faculté des Lettres des Arts et des Humanités of the Manouba’s University in Tunis in collabo...

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Research projects on gender of the Research seminar in Rabat

Created by Foundation's Team 3256 days ago

Under the Research seminar on economic empowerment of women, organised by the RUSEMEG, a PhD workshop was held at the School of Governance and Economics of th...

Documents

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Women's Political Presence in the Arab Mediterranean Region: Governance, Contentious Politics, and Agency

Created by Foundation's Team 1436 days ago

The first two decades of the 21st century has seen its share of dramatic events: the “war on terror” launched in the aftermath of the 11 September 2001...

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Police and justice sector data on intimate partner violence against women in the European Union

Created by Foundation's Team 1814 days ago

Quality administrative data that are available and comparable are key to understanding the scale of intimate partner violence in the EU and monitoring pr...

Leandra Hettenbach

The Exclusion of Palestinian Women from Local Government Councils: Reality and Challenges Between State Oppression and Societal Oppression

Created by Leandra Hettenbach 2010 days ago

This study seeks to understand the obstacles and challenges that prevent women from being adequately represented in local governance entities, as well as to explor...

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Toolkit for Advocating Women's Rights in 7 Steps

Created by Foundation's Team 2198 days ago

Developed by the Center of Arab Women for Training and Research - CAWTAR, this toolkit has been an opportunity to combine long-term theoretical and practical exper...

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Ending forced sterilisation of women and girls with disabilities

Created by Foundation's Team 2267 days ago

Forced sterilisation happens a lot to women with disabilities and it happens the most to women with intellectual disabilities. It also happens a lot to girls with...

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A guide for NGOs and Women's Human Rights Activists at the UN and CSW

Created by Foundation's Team 2297 days ago

This NGO guide will help build the capacity of NGOs and women’s human rights activists to advocate for the rights and empowerment of women and girls. The UN...

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Strengthening Women's Participation through Effective Training Programs - A Guide to Best Practices and Lessons Learned

Created by Foundation's Team 2365 days ago

This guide is based on a research conducted by NDI in eight countries in three regions of the world: Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia and Serbia in March 2012, and in Jo...

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Euro-Mediterranean Regional Dialogue on Advocacy in the Field of Gender Equality

Created by Foundation's Team 2372 days ago

...’’ which took place between 24 and 26 October 2017 in Casablanca (Morocco) as part of the CSO WINS project “Capacity-Building in the Southern Mediterranean...

Foundation's Team

Bibliography: Women's political participation at the municipal level in the Irbid Governorate -District of El-Koura

Created by Foundation's Team 2438 days ago

This bibliography has been elaborated for the Pilot Action of mobilization and consultation of equality actors on gender equality in Jordan on the &ldquo...

Foundation's Team

Bibliography: Gender-Based Violence in the Marrakech-Safi Region

Created by Foundation's Team 2440 days ago

This bibliography has been realized for the Pilot Action of mobilization and consultation of equality actors on gender equality in Morocco on the “...

Tags

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Women in News: strengthening women's presence and leadership in the media / النساء في الأخبار: منصة الكترونية لتعزيز حضور وقيادة النساء في وسائل الإعلام / Women in News : renforcer la présence et le leadership des femmes sur les médias

Created by Foundation's Team 1891 days ago

Women in News (WIN) is an online platform that aims to increase women’ presence and leadership voices in the news. WIN is currently working with more than 80 media from 12 countries throughout the Middle East (including Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine), and the Sub-Saharan Af...

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Women's Bank: a network to support sustainable entrepreneurship among women / Women's Bank: un réseau pour soutenir l'entreprenariat féminin durable / بنك النساء: شبكة لدعم ريادة الأعمال النسائية المستدامة

Created by Foundation's Team 1891 days ago

Women’s Bank is a Finnish innovation, a volunteer Network which raises funds to support women’s sustainable entrepreneurship and livelihood in developing countries. The goal of Women’s Bank is to support women and their families in Africa, Asia and other continents by alleviating povert...

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Réintégrer les jeunes mères dans l'éducation dans six pays européens / إعادة دمج الأمهات الشابات في التعليم في ستة بلدان أوروبية / Bringing Young Mothers Back to Education in six European countries

Created by Foundation's Team 1899 days ago

Le problème des jeunes mères qui abandonnent leurs études et qui rencontrent des difficultés pour reprendre des études ou une formation ou pour entrer sur le marché du travail avec un niveau de qualification peu élevé reste un prob...

ابتسام القصبي

Peacemakers Project: Increasing Libyan women's contribution to Peace making / صانعات السلام: مشروع هام لتعزيز مشاركة النساء الليبيات في تحقيق السلام / Projet pour augmenter la contribution des femmes libyennes au processus de paix

Created by ابتسام القصبي 2143 days ago

In partnership with the Institute for War and Peace Reporting and the Ministry of Labour and Rehabilitation in Libya, the Trajectories for Peace and Development Association carried out the first phase of the "Peacemakers" project which consisted in training 12 Libyan women on the Unit...

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Empowering female factory workers towards fairer labour conditions in Zarqaa / تمكين عاملات المصانع نحو ظروف عملٍ أكثر عدلاً في الزرقاء / Autonomiser les travailleuses dans les usines de Zarqaa

Created by Foundation's Team 2150 days ago

In the factories of Zarqaa, one of the most important industrial hubs in Jordan, female workers endure difficult situations and various forms of discrimination, some are also victims of sexual harassment. According to diagnosis by the Jordan Forum for Business and Professional Women (JF...

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Training elected women for more effective local governance in Ifrane / Former les femmes élues pour une gouvernance locale plus efficace à Ifrane / تدريب النساء المنتخبات لحكمٍ محليٍ أكثر فعّالية في افران

Created by Foundation's Team 2154 days ago

Despite favorable frameworks to equal opportunities in terms of access to political and governance structures in Morocco, women’s presence and effective participation in elected positions in local authorities remain below expectations, especially in rural areas. A recent field di...

Association TAZGHART

Projet pilote pour habiliter les femmes élues à Ifrane au sein des communes / مشروع رائد لتمكين النساء المنتخبات في إفران في مجال الحكم المحلي / Pilot project to empower elected women in Ifrane in the communes

Created by Association TAZGHART 2255 days ago

L’association Tazghart Azrou a lancé un projet pilote visant à renforcer le rôle et la place des femmes élues dans la province d’Ifrane et à les habiliter au niveau de la gouvernance locale et de la gestion des affaires des communes qu’elles...

Maria Àngels Roque

Grants to projects: Support for social movements from Morocco and Catalonia / Subvention à projets : Support aux mouvements sociaux du Maroc et de Catalogne / منح لمشاريع دعم الحركات المجتمعية في المغرب و إقليم كتالونيا

Created by Maria Àngels Roque 2639 days ago

The goal of this grant is to provide a support for women’s actions and/or for capacity-buildings in the southern social movements, particularly women and feminist movements from the following countries: Mozambique, Colombia, Senegal and Morocco, by incorporation a gender approach ...

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Euro-Mediterranean Dialogue on Advocacy for Gender Equality / Dialogue euro-méditerranéen sur le plaidoyer en faveur de l'égalité femmes-hommes / حوار أورومتوسطي حول المناصرة من أجل المساواة الجندرية 

Created by Foundation's Team 2639 days ago

This dialogue will be held from 24 to 26 October 2017 in Casablanca (Morocco) as part of the CSO WINS project “Capacity-Building in the Southern Mediterranean to Open Policy Dialogue and Monitoring for Women in Society” funded by the European Union. CSO WINS is coordinated b...

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Apply to our call for the mobilization of gender equality actors! / Participez à notre appel pour la mobilisation des acteurs de l'égalité ! / دعوتنا لتقديم طلبات لتعبئة الجهات الفاعلة في مجال المساواة بين الجنسين!

Created by Foundation's Team 2648 days ago

This call for applications aims to identify associations which want to encourage networking and joint actions with other gender equality actors of their territory following a local approach. The 7 selected associations (1 for each of the 7 beneficiary countries of the call for applicati...

They are registered on the platform of the Euro-Mediterranean Women's Foundation

Hope Village Society (HVS)
Elmehwar Association for Developing the Egyptian Family
Nelly Jazra
Zouhair Gassim
SIDRA Association
Roles for Social Change Association (ADWAR)
Alternative Movement for Individual Freedoms M.A.L.I.
Forsaan Al-Ghad Youth Association
Ibsar Association for the Culture and Leisure of blind and visually handicapped people
Horus Foundation for Development and Training
Hillary Rodham Clinton Center for Women'    s Empowerment (HCC)
La ciutat invisible
Arab Institute for Human Rights
Rayhana Association for Women of Jendouba
National Association for the defense of rights and freedoms (NADRF)
Salama's Friends
La Presse
Réseau Doustourna
Tunisian Association of Gender Studies
United Religions Initiative
Tubas Charitable Society
Jordanian Journalist Association
Associació Catalana de Dones Directives i Empresaries
The Lebanese Association of Women Researchers - Bahithat
Portuguese Platform for Women'   s Rights - PpDM (Plataforma Portuguesa para os Direitos das Mulheres)
MSA University
Femmes pour le Dire, Femmes pour Agir (FDFA)
Sawa Organization - All Women Together Today and Tomorrow
Women's aspirations Association
Faculdade de Ciencias Sociais e Humanas
Tunisian National League of Policewomen
Voix de la Femme Jemmeliya (VFJ)
Thenextwomen tunisie
Carmen Garraton
Association Aspirations féminines

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Documents

Caliphettes: Women and the Appeal of Islamic State

The following report discusses the appeal of the Islamic Sate “caliphate” to women. It was done through a close...

Report on the Associative Movement of Women in the Rural Environment in Algeria

Without pretending to be an exhaustive study of the associative fabric in the rural environment, this report concerns the...

Migrant Well-Being in the Middle East and North Africa: A Focus on Gender in Cairo

This paper aims at providing an overview of the principal migration trends within and to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)...

EXIT: Challenges and Needs of Lebanese and Syrian Women in Prostitution

This study seeks to understand the risks and the challenges faced by Lebanese and Syrian women in prostitution that are living in...

Abortion and Islam: Policies and Practice in the Middle East and North Africa

This paper provides an overview of legal, religious, medical and social factors that serve to support or hinder women’s access to...

Women's participation in civic and political life : obstacles and ways to overcome the : in Morocco, Tunisia, Occupied Palestine Territories and Yemen

This report aims, among other objectives, to develop the views on leadership and empowerment so as to learn about particular...

Gender Equality in the Mediterranean - Local Perspectives From the South

This booklet summarizes a number of initiatives coordinated within the framework of teh 1st cycle of the project 'Strengthening...

Understanding women's experience of violence and the political economy of gender in conflict: the case of Syria

This article examines this underexplored dimension of violence against women (VAW) in political conflicts, by identifying risk...

Comparative Study on Constitutional Processes in the Arab World: A Gender Perspective

This study aims to understand and analyse the processes of drafting constitutions from a gender sensitive perspective. The...

Beyond Religious Marriages: Civil Marriage, Civil Family Laws, and the Enhancement of Women's Rights in Lebanon

The article explores the current confessional system in Lebanon and the possibility of a radical change to a secular state that...