For the commemoration of International Women’s Day, CAWTAR and WFP and their partners - the Francophone Network for Gender Equality of OIF and EMWF- with the participation of UNWOMEN and FAO are organizing on Wednesday March 9 2022 a Webinar to be held via Zoom from 11 a.m. to 1 p...
On April 23, 2021 (10h - 12h CET), Soraya al-Kahlaoui will be giving a talk entitled "Droits à la terre des femmes au Maroc, entre colonialité et état néolibéral". Al-Kahlaoui holds a PhD in sociology. Her research interests revolve around the r...
Women in rural and agricultural areas play a key role in the development of the territories. Because of their role in the agricultural economy or fisheries, women are at the heart of the resilience of the most vulnerable societies. This publication aims to put different situations in pe...
This article reflects on 20 arguments made by the Tunisian Association of Women Democrats in favour of gender equality in inheritance, especially after Tunisian Cabinet approved, on November 23rd 2018, a law that would allow men and women to inherit equally, contrary to what is stipulat...
This brief is one in a three-part research series produced by UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality (FGE). Focusing on grantee case studies in Lebanon, this brief offers a more nuanced look at the real-time opportunities and barriers to women’s economic empowerment in fragile ...
This report focuses on the environment within the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region for women’s entrepreneurship. Beyond existing structural barriers related to access to finance and a lack of knowledge regarding entrepreneurship and business start-up, the report finds th...
This paper intends to explain why gender sensitive data gathering methods are crucial for the empowerment of rural women and girls. Gender disparities in poverty are rooted in inequalities in access to economic resources including security of tenure rights in rural and urban context. L...
In rural areas female entrepreneurship may contribute to the economic diversification of households and the preservation of their social fabric. In Greece, small private enterprises owned by women and the women’s cooperatives are almost the only forms of women’s enterprises ...
This survey aims to study the working conditions of women in the agricultural sector and to highlight the discrimination they face in the labour market in rural areas. It therefore focuses on: Working conditions for women in rural areas, including conditions of transport, working ho...
This survey was conducted as part of a project by I WATCH to involve Tunisian women, including women in rural areas, in the political process by raising their awareness regarding the available opportunities for their political participation to improve their lives, as wel as by building ...
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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