This report sheds light on the multiple human rights violations that Syrian girls and women are witnessing, inside the country, and while fleeing the conflict as refugees. It focuses on issues such as: women and girls’ access to education; access to healthcare; gender-based violence; forc...
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 document provides guidance to Home Office decision-makers on handling claims made by nationals/residents of Turkey, as well as country of origin information (COI) about Turkey. This includes whether claims are likely to justify the granting of asylum, humanitarian protection or discretionary...
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...
The study examines the legislative action needed in order to fully implement the Resolution 1325 about women, peace and security in seven Arab countries: Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Palestine, Tunisia and Yemen. It falls under the Development Account project on institutional and capacity-buildin...
This report, based on a study conducted in Jordan, Lebanon and Occupied Palestinian Territory, explains the direct and indirect impacts of small arms on women in the Middle East. It includes armed domestic violence and “honour crimes”, as well as long-term social, economic and psychol...
In this action plan, the Swedish government sets out its position on how men’s violence against women, violence and oppression in the name of honour and violence in same-sex relationships must be fought. Moreover, it describes the main measures adopted against this type of violence in a wid...
This document provides guidance to Home Office decision-makers on handling claims made by nationals/residents of Libya as well as country of origin information (COI) about Libya. This includes whether claims are likely to justify the granting of asylum, humanitarian protection or discretionary le...
The objective of this study is to assess the prevalence of gender-based violence (GBV) to better identify its scope in nine EU Southern Neighbourhood countries. The study examines the existing legal and institutional frameworks, the national strategies and action plans adopted in the countries, a...
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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