The evolution of demographic marriage patterns reflects the social and economic changes taking place in the Arab world. This brief emphasises the current trends in marriage customs in the Arab world and their effects and challenges at a political level. This article highlights the links between m...
This report presents the institutional framework for the promotion and protection of women's rights in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, notably the legal and administrative authorities responsible for ensuring that the country's commitments are respected. The second part reviews the institutio...
This document is a roadmap that seeks to guide the planning of equality policies in Latvia. It describes the country's acts, policies and commitments as well as the EU legal documents and policies providing a framework for the preparation of this plan. It puts forward measures in the following ar...
This document is designed as a country-file addressing the legal framework in terms of gender equality, the institutions and the mechanisms in this field. It also provides data and statistics on women's political and economic participation, reproductive health and education. / Ce document e...
Sweden's development cooperation policy aims to increase the influence of women and achieve greater respect for their rights in developing countries. To this end, the country will focus its efforts on four fields: participation in political life; economic empowerment and working conditions; sexua...
This plan is a development document to implement a gender policy in Montenegro. It is based on the legal framework and the general situation of gender equality. The plan is adopted for the nine priority fields in the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action: women's rights, gender responsive e...
This report, prepared within the European Commission initiative "Equality Pays Off", examines the participation of women in employment and occupation. It addresses several aspects, including part-time work, qualification level and women's choice of education and their under or overrepresentation ...
The document provides an overview of the legislation in Tunisia on women's rights, one of the most modern in the Arab world, notably because it includes the right to abortion and access to contraceptives. It examines women's rights in the recent historical context of the revolution and the first ...
This report offers an overview of the situation of women's rights and gender equality in Palestine. It introduces the main actors and provides information on the status of women in economic, educational, healthcare, political, legal and cultural fields. Despite some progress, women activists must...
This report focuses on the existing gender equality legislation and programmes in Turkey. This issue is particularly important in this country for monitoring norms and achievements of the European Union. The main challenges in this respect are violence against women, equal opportunities in the wo...
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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