Although Libyan women are an integral part of society, their rights in the transitional period have remained inadequate and have faced many forms of violence to intimidate and exclude them from active participation in Libyan society. Therefore, the Women Youth Empowering Forum, in partn...
On 14 February 2018, the Moroccan Parliament adopted a law on combating violence against women. Despite a few progresses, civil society argues the law only consists of a number of scattered and partial amendments to the Penal Code, and does not respond to the need for a comprehensive la...
This study maps the current state of gender justice in the Arab region, documenting barriers as well as opportunities. Its primary research aim is to determine how to develop an environment, at the legal, policy, and social levels that is conducive to gender justice. The study also pro...
This study aims to understand and analyse the processes of drafting constitutions from a gender sensitive perspective. The reason for choosing this perspective is two-fold. First, it is impossible to speak of any democratisation process without taking into account the gender power dimen...
Women represent over 70% of employment in the social and solidarity-based economy in Luxembourg and ULESS (Luxembourg Union of Social and Solidarity Economy) supports the increase of number of women taking the lead in social and solidarity-based companies. In 2016, ULESS has acco...
This report documents the third edition of the Gender Equality Index of the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE). The third edition provides scores for 2005, 2010, 2012 and 2015. It relies on a conceptual framework that embraces different theoretical approaches to gende...
The Arab perspective is often absent when international bodies prepare guides to measure the status of women or monitor the gender gap in the Arab region. Therefore, the Arab Women Organization prepared this guide, taking into account the specific cultural and social contexts surroundin...
The first part of this research paper tackles the general economic and historical framework of the evolution of the alternative economy, while the second part highlights different patterns of social and solidarity economy as a model for the alternative economy and a solution to social a...
This study focuses on the phenomenon of marriage of underage girls between legalization, jurisprudence and practice: the case of girls from the province of Azilal where it is customary to force marriage at girls at a very young age. The diagnosis finds that the problem of the marriage ...
This report examines a number of sustainable development goals, specifically Goal 5 on achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls. It tracks various development plans and women strategies in seventeen Arab countries, in view of monitoring the relationship between Arab ...
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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