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 field diagnosis, elaborated by Women’s Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling (WCLAC), acknowledges women’s effective role in Palestinian politics and examines the factors that hinder their representation in decision-making authorities. It also suggests number of recommen...
In Morocco, social stigma, norms and traditions, and legal discrimination, marginalize unwed mothers and their children born out of wedlock, and impact on their ability to obtain official identity papers.This reportexamines some of the Moroccan non-governmental organization (NGO) initiatives that...
This document provides an unofficial English translation of the 2004 Moroccan Family Law (Moudawana). This translation tries to provide as faithfully as possible the original Arabic text, therefore it gives a literal translation to the articles and content of the Moroccan Family Law. It aims to b...
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 the legal status of the women in more than 20 Arab countries. The report reviews about 300 laws and compares it with the treaties signed by those countries. It tries to assess the translation of the commitments of each country into local laws and procedures. / Ce rapport ana...
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 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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