This documentary by Women’s Learning Partnership for Rights, Development, and Peace (WLP) illustrates the spectrum of family laws around the world and their impact on women’s freedom, safety, and wellbeing. Drawing on expertise from prominent human rights activists and ...
This guide was prepared in the framework of the project “Increasing the representation of Lebanese women in local political life” which takes place in Mount Lebanon. It details the advocacy strategy of the local cluster´s project, which calls for the amendment of the Municipal E...
This paper focuses on the merits and demerits of Syria’s pluralistic family law. It describes some of the detrimental consequences that this asymmetrical plurality can have on the lives of individuals. The paper then focuses on the versatility of the family law system, in particular on lega...
This report analyses women’s human rights and gender equality in Syria. It was prepared within the framework of the project “Enhancing Equality between Men and Women in the Euromed Region (2008-2011)” and it examines the national legal context in this sector. Some themes covered...
This report presents the proceedings of the regional strategic roundtable titled “Women’s Participation: The Making of the Tunisian Constitution”. It brought together gender and constitutional law experts from Tunisia and the MENA region to discuss key provisions of the draft of...
The aim of this legal study, which was prepared in the framework of the national campaign to protect minors from early marriage in Lebanon, is to shed light on the reality of this phenomenon and on the measures to be adopted by the different actors in order to eliminate it.The first part of the s...
This article examines the cases of Tunisia and Egypt as examples of the outbreak of the debate about women's rights in the wake of the Arab revolutions. The paper aims at analysing the separation between public and private spheres in both countries and its effects on women´s ability to nego...
This study examines the application of the Convention on the ·Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) in Lebanon and Jordan. It outlines the gap between the Penal Code and the Convention. It aims to monitor the legal needs to raise awareness about CEDAW and the leg...
This study explains the gap, from the one hand, between the Syrian Constitution and the Convention on the ·Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). Whilst, from the other hand, it outlines the gap between the Penal code and the Convention. It aims to monitor the le...
This report reviews the status of women and gender equality in the Arab region and the implementation of the Beijing declaration and platform of action, in the past 20 years. It highlights the accomplishments made, such as the changes in the Personal Status Code in some countries or some measures...
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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