The MALI movement (Mouvement alternatif pour les libertés individuelles) is, as stated on their website, "a universalist, feminist, secular movement for the defense of sexual and reproductive rights (LGBT + / Right to abortion)", founded in Morocco in 2009 by human righ...
In this article, Lama Abu-Odeh, Professor of Law at the Georgetown University, writes a critique of the controversial letter signed by dozens of French women including the famous actress, Catherine Deneuve, in which the attacked the MeToo campaign against sexual abuse and harassment. &...
In her 2005 book ‘’Moroccan Islamists and the Challenges to the Monarchy’’ (Paris: Éditions La Décourverte, 2005), the Tunisian writer Malika Zeghal argues that the question of the Moroccan nation has been - for more than a century – formulate...
Axelle Magazine is a Belgian feminist monthly review created in January 1998. Its publications and articles cover a wide array of topics such as politics, society matters, economy, women and human rights, cultural events, and daily life issues. The magazine’s main goal is to...
Social effect and impact of many social movements and the collective action promoted by them cannot be conceived only in terms of success or failure in face of the immediate aims that it incorporates in a specific campaign. Sustained efforts in time by movements such as the environmenta...
This dictionary is a bilingual tool based on theoretical debates and empirical findings, and it aims to gather, in Arabic and English, original multidisciplinary research on gender and sexuality concepts and terms, from a feminist perspective and in a user and reader friendly format. Th...
In this article, Gitte Pedersen explains the history, philosophy and politics of socialist ecofeminism. Environmental and ecological movements and even Eco socialism tend to overlook the fact that there is a connection between the capitalist patriarchate, the male dominance and the sup...
Islamic women’s activism may appear a contradiction in terms to many Western audiences accustomed to presentations of Islam as counterproductive to the promotion of women’s empowerment and the situation of women more generally. Yet in the Arab world (and beyond) many differe...
The purpose of this paper is to identify the role of the Palestinian National Authority in activating the political participation of Palestinian women; to monitor and analyse thelegal legislations related to the political participation of Palestinian women and to know the impact of such...
This research paper was prepared in the framework of the Scientific Research Support Program, funded by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Open Society Foundation. The paper presents a brief account of the history of the intellectual and political feminist movement 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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