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Rabha Fathi

The Association of Egyptian Female Lawyers Implemented A Training Program for Journalists on Using New Media Means in Personal Status Law and its Amendments

Created by Rabha Fathi 47 days ago

...r journalists on the project "Towards a Fair Personal Status Law for Family", funded by Equality Now, with the aim of introducing them to the draft laws submitted by all parties in t...

Amel Arbaoui

The inauguration of the women's space in Sakiet Sidi Youssef

Created by Amel Arbaoui 348 days ago

...supported by the Swedish organization Kvinna till Kvinna. The Women’s space is a space for women to entertain and raise awareness of all laws supporting women’s righ...

Andalib Adwan

The Community Media Center holds 5 discussion sessions with academics about the reality of women in universities in Gaza

Created by Andalib Adwan 374 days ago

...ity of Palestine, and Al-Azhar University and Israa University. The sessions focused on the rights of Palestinian women in international and local laws, and the conditions of women...

Andalib Adwan

With the aim of introducing the Palestinian Women Academics Authority PAC, the CMC carries out 10 visits to NGOs in Gaza

Created by Andalib Adwan 405 days ago

...in universities on women’s rights in academic institutions, and holds a number of awareness workshops on women’s rights in Palestinian laws in cooperation with the unive...

Andalib Adwan

The CMC Community Media Center targets 100 students from universities in the Gaza Strip to raise awareness about women's rights in Palestinian laws

Created by Andalib Adwan 405 days ago

...s on “Women’s Rights in Palestinian Laws” according to the appro...They discussed the extent to which Palestinian laws are compatible with the Conve...with the level of harmonization of Palestinian laws for women’s rights. The...

Andalib Adwan

The Community Media Center holds 6 awareness sessions on digital rights and protection from electronic violence in North Gaza Governorate

Created by Andalib Adwan 500 days ago

...rcrime, its causes, types, and the most prominent ways to fall into it, with a focus on ways to prevent electronic violence and cybercrime, and the laws governing them, in addition t...

Amel Arbaoui

AJC launched the first training course within the framework of the 2BE Project

Created by Amel Arbaoui 560 days ago

...ay 21 and Sunday 22 of May, Association Joussour de Citoyenneté (AJC) held the first training course on national and international laws and conventions supporting wo...

Andalib Adwan

CMC carries out a hearing on the adoption of a draft law on family protection from violence

Created by Andalib Adwan 594 days ago

.... He also talked about the status of women’s rights in Palestinian laws, and the stages of the draft...ner-General of the Ministry in Gaza, Louay Al-Madhoun, stressed that the laws regulating Palestine and the...

Andalib Adwan

CMC implements 5 awareness workshops in Khan Yunis on digital rights

Created by Andalib Adwan 594 days ago

...reness sessions, the facilitators focused on digital rights and their relationship to human rights, women’s rights in local and international laws, and addressed digital violat...

Andalib Adwan

The Community Media Center implements 5 awareness workshops on cyberviolence in Khan Yunis

Created by Andalib Adwan 616 days ago

...ssues of women’s rights in local and international conventions and laws, and violations of women&rsqu...ionship to human rights, women’s rights in local and international laws, and addressed cyber violatio...

Events

Foundation's Team

FGM in the EU: Raising the voice of communities

Created by Foundation's Team 922 days ago

...oice of communities affected by FGM. A panel discussion will bring together policymakers and representatives of affected communities to speak about laws, awareness-raising campaigns,...

Maria Àngels Roque

Fez hosts a forum on Islamic Feminisms

Created by Maria Àngels Roque 1642 days ago

...ced, modern Islamic feminisms have nonetheless framed a powerful social movement to seek gender equality in Muslim family laws and revisit the fiqh-based background of these laws from within Islam. To examin...

Amina Byouz

Meeting in Mjs Mejatt to raise awareness on violence against women

Created by Amina Byouz 1712 days ago

...ciaries of the activities of Zitoun association, focused on the different forms of violence (psychological, physical, sexual and economic), and the laws and articles that the law pro...

Life Foundation

Life Foundation launches a new program to support women victims of violence

Created by Life Foundation 1953 days ago

As part of its efforts to provide legal support and sensitize women on the laws and provisions related to their lives, Life Foundation for Development and Community Reinteg...

Susana Pavlou

“Litigating for freedom, for power, for love: Strategies for global leaders”

Created by Susana Pavlou 2471 days ago

...Court of India and an International lawyer. Her focus areas include constitutional law - with a specialty in gender equality, free speech and media laws; commercial litigation and ar...

Shared practices

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Functional Literacy Programme for Women of the Argan Cooperative

Created by Foundation's Team 2277 days ago

...s of the obstacles/constraints in Argan sales and the value of promoting fair trade Endowing the cooperative women’s knowledge of new family laws, especially those concerning...

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Campaign in favour of Parity in Municipal Elections in Tunisia

Created by Foundation's Team 2494 days ago

...disabilities in the electoral lists. The group worked with all civil, progressive and democratic forces in the country to promote the adoption of laws and practices that guarantee...

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Scholarship program for girls in school failure

Created by Foundation's Team 2994 days ago

...ls to think and talk about their existence. Government entities were also involved in the program in order to empower them in the implementation of laws and policies that promote the...

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Soulaliyates women' s right to ownership and enhancing their role in local governance.

Created by Foundation's Team 3063 days ago

...hts. Indeed, Soulaliyates women suffer discrimination for the lands (which belong to Soulaliyates tribes) are only for the use of men due to unjust laws and male chauvinist mentality...

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Family Status Laws'Campaign

Created by Foundation's Team 3063 days ago

...rom opponents to repeal the family laws tackling custody and visitati...rticles. Mothers affected by these laws were suddenly put at the risk...d social claims that support these laws’ nullification, claiming they...to maintain unchanged the existing laws on child custody. She helped...

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Palestinian women through the eyes of their youth

Created by Foundation's Team 3063 days ago

...local, national and international audiences. This work resulted in numerous meetings with political bodies and it has created major changes in the laws relating to violence against...

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16 days of activism - Qanun Nashaz (wrong notes of the law)

Created by Foundation's Team 3063 days ago

...fferent countries. The aimed at shedding the light on the discriminatory laws against women worldwide, and...November and December2014. Its principal objectives were: to tackle the laws that are affecting women on b...

Calls and opportunities

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Consultant on contestations and backlashes to gender equality in the MENA

Created by Foundation's Team 809 days ago

...nning of 2021 onwards. Information can come from any verifiable source – including media reports, government statements, draft laws, declarations, stat...

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Call for project proposals: Responding to anti-LGBTI forces in Europe

Created by Foundation's Team 958 days ago

...d to) strategic litigation, lobbying discriminatory legislation and policy, campaigning on-line, publicly presenting signatures against progressive laws, antagonising and pitting pro...

Foundation's Team

Call for Talents UN Women: Artivism for Gender Equality

Created by Foundation's Team 1021 days ago

A single moment can spark a revolution, collective actions can transform societies and laws, an invention can alter the course of history, and creative expression can chang...

Aswat Nissa

Aswat Nissa is looking for an advocacy officer: Gender and Public Policy

Created by Aswat Nissa 1879 days ago

...nis to ensure the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the research and advocacy department for the gender mainstreaming in public security laws and policies. The deadline f...

Resources

Claire Trichot

Single mothers in Morocco: daily injustice

Created by Claire Trichot 1523 days ago

...ward. With the new Moudawana [Moroccan Personal Status Code], there are lawsuits, but in most cases they a...le mothers and their children, and calls for a fairer application of the laws and constitutional principles...

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Suggestions for an egalitarian society: Stockholm municipality perspective

Created by Foundation's Team 1650 days ago

...afe society free of all forms of discrimination. Given its high commitment to gender equality, its strong gender-sensitive and anti-discrimination laws as well as its good practices...

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Documentary - Equality: It's All in the Family

Created by Foundation's Team 1901 days ago

...ts, Development, and Peace (WLP) illustrates the spectrum of family laws around the world and their im...tivists and leaders, the film examines the root causes of discriminatory laws and highlights the path towar...

Foundation's Team

E-Portal: Legal and human rights of women and men between equality and gaps

Created by Foundation's Team 1937 days ago

An online information tool designed to collect laws related to the legal status, rights and gende...atus of women in the Arab region. The portal allows users to search for laws on different topics and right...

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Resources section of MRA for advocacy

Created by Foundation's Team 2348 days ago

...and Libya. MRA (“woman” in Arabic) collaborates with local women’s rights activists and associations to contribute to changes in laws, structures, relationships an...

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Adalah, The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel

Created by Foundation's Team 2991 days ago

...ians living under occupation since 1967 by pleading in Israeli courts and international forums. To achieve these goals, Adalah: - Seeks to change laws affecting Palestinian rights;...

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Tamkeen for Legal Aid and Human Rights

Created by Foundation's Team 2991 days ago

...n and prosecution. The goal of this organization is to increase legal awareness within Jordanian Society, with a focus on issues related to Labour Laws, the rights and duties of wor...

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New Woman Foundation

Created by Foundation's Team 2991 days ago

...liberation from oppression. Therefore the three main identified objectives of NWF include: - Contributing to the development of legal structures (laws and policies) that can ensure...

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Czech Republic: Office of the Government of the Czech Republic. Gender Equality Department

Created by Foundation's Team 3122 days ago

The Gender Equality Department is the body responsible for the implementation of national, international and European laws linked to equal opportunities between women and men. Thus, it drafts the national strategic documents related to equal opportunities between women and men.

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Italy: Department of Equal Opportunities

Created by Foundation's Team 3122 days ago

...ed by the Department of Equal Opportunities to guarantee gender equality affect numerous fields, such as the definition of financial laws, the adoption of labour laws, social policies, immigration...

Documents

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Mediterranean Women Breaking Barriers

Created by Foundation's Team 278 days ago

...t highlights a series of aspects that must be considered in order to ensure solid trans-Mediterranean alliances, and that involve bringing national laws into line with constitutions...

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Testimonials of gender-based violence from Palestine

Created by Foundation's Team 579 days ago

...ages.  The aim of these eight different stories is to give visibility to these women which have long been neglected and to amend the national laws for women’s rights to b...

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Regional Index - Combating violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG)

Created by Foundation's Team 779 days ago

The overall objective of the 2020 Regional Index is to provide a global documentation on laws, public policies and services related to VAWG and WPSA, that allows a diagnosi...

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Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The gender snapshot 2021

Created by Foundation's Team 795 days ago

...ferently and better will require placing women and girls at the centre of all aspects of response and recovery, including through gender-responsive laws, policies, and budgeting. &n...

Maria Alabdeh

The disproportionate impact of Covid 19 crisis on women and adolescent girls in middle Bekaa and Women Now for Development's response

Created by Maria Alabdeh 1063 days ago

...ountries, women and girls go through different struggles on several levels, from the rigid structure of the patriarchal community to discriminating laws and the exclusion of women fr...

Hedia Bel Haj Youssef

Changing Laws and Breaking Barriers for Women's Economic Empowerment in Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia

Created by Hedia Bel Haj Youssef 1118 days ago

At a moment when many countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are looking to accelerate economic growth and build more stable, open societies, e...

Foundation's Team

Gender Justice and Equality before the law: Analysis of Progress and Challenges in the Arab States Region

Created by Foundation's Team 1122 days ago

...rts to make gender justice a reality for all. The report focuses on the laws and law enforcement practices...t also provides an overview of the social and economic contexts in which laws are made and access to justic...

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Beyond Religious Marriages: Civil Marriage, Civil Family Laws, and the Enhancement of Women's Rights in Lebanon

Created by Foundation's Team 1161 days ago

...change to a secular state that governs personal status codes under civil laws. In order to do that, it draw...have on women’s rights in Lebanon while analyzing how the current laws fuel the sectarian system and...

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Women, Business and the Law 2020

Created by Foundation's Team 1263 days ago

Women, Business and the Law 2020 is the sixth in a series of studies that analyze laws and regulations affecting women’s economic opportunity in 190 economies. Eight...

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1st General Report on GREVIO's Activities

Created by Foundation's Team 1321 days ago

...extremely well regarded” by state authorities, women’s organisations, and victims’ associations. The report notes improvements in laws and policy documents, with st...

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Crises de mariage: perspectives des femmes migrantes syriennes sur la guerre et le divorce / أزمات الزواج: وجهات نظر المهاجرات السوريات حول الحرب والطلاق / Marriage crises: Syrian migrant women's perspectives on war and divorce

Created by Foundation's Team 1523 days ago

La guerre et les déplacements ont des effets durables sur les normes de genre dans les relations intimes. Cet article est basé sur une recherche sur les femmes et les couples migrants  syriens, examinant l’augmentation significative du nombre de divorces parmi l...

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Women Count Data Hub: Your guide to monitor progress in achieving gender equality in the SDGs / Women Count Data Hub: votre guide pour suivre les progrès accomplis en matière d'égalité femmes-hommes dans les ODD / هيئة الأمم المتحدة للمرأة تطلق قاعدة بيانات لرصد التقدم المحرز في تحقيق المساواة بي...

Created by Foundation's Team 1525 days ago

The Women Count Data Hub is the first of its kind to provide public access to gender data that can be used to monitor progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It brings together the latest available data on gender and the SDGs, as well as stories and analysis about the liv...

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Gender and Trade: Empowering Women towards Gender Equality in the MENA Region through Gender Mainstreaming in Economic Policies and Trade Agreements / Genre et commerce: autonomiser les femmes vers l'égalité femmes-hommes dans la région MENA par l'intégration du genre dans les politiques économiq...

Created by Foundation's Team 1530 days ago

This report is one of the fruits of the collaboration of the Center of Arab Women/CAWTAR and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency/Sida who signed an agreement related to economic empowerment of women with focus on their participation to and presence in Trade markets ...

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Progress of the world's women 2019 - 2020: Families in a changing world / Le progrès des femmes dans le monde 2019 - 2020 : Les familles dans un monde en changement / تقدم نساء العالم 2019-2020: الأُسر في عالم متغير

Created by Foundation's Team 1530 days ago

This report assesses the reality of families today in the context of sweeping economic, demographic, political, and social transformation. The report features global, regional, and national data. It also analyses key issues such as family laws, employment, unpaid care work, violence aga...

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Perceptions des femmes et mécanismes contre la violence domestique en Alexandrie / وعي النساء وآليات مناهضة العنف المنزلي في الإسكندرية / Women's perceptions and mechanisms against domestic violence in Alexandria

Created by Foundation's Team 1619 days ago

Cet article explore le niveau de conscience des femmes par rapport aux formes de violence auxquelles elles sont exposées, leurs causes et leurs impacts, ainsi que les connaissances des femmes sur les mécanismes de protection existants. Il vise à mettre la lumi&egrav...

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Non dry ink: Guide to Gender sensitive Media Laws and Codes of Conduct in Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon / Encre non sèche: Guide pour la sensibilité au genre dans les lois et codes de conduite des médias en Syrie, en Turquie, en Iraq, en Jordanie et au Liban / حبر مو ناشف: دليل إرشادي ح...

Created by Foundation's Team 1620 days ago

This guide aims at raising awareness regarding gender sensitivity in press coverage. It also seeks to inform media professionals about the media laws in Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey, and the extent to which these laws are affected by other laws (such as Penal Code, qnd the Na...

Nsreen Amer

Assessment of the status of women in Libya between reality and law - Part 4 / Evaluation du statut des femmes en Libye entre réalité et droit - Partie 4 / دراسة تقييم وضع المرأة في ليبيا بين الواقع والقانون - الجزء 4

Created by Nsreen Amer 1620 days ago

This study assesses Libya’s compliance with legal norms on women’s rights and gender equality. It is a complex legal and factual research on Libya’s efforts to ensure gender equality and the opportunities and challenges that underpin women’s empowerment and their...

Nsreen Amer

Assessment of the status of women in Libya between reality and law - Part 3 / Evaluation du statut des femmes en Libye entre réalité et droit - Partie 3 / دراسة تقييم وضع المرأة في ليبيا بين الواقع والقانون - الجزء 3

Created by Nsreen Amer 1620 days ago

This study assesses Libya’s compliance with legal norms on women’s rights and gender equality. It is a complex legal and factual research on Libya’s efforts to ensure gender equality and the opportunities and challenges that underpin women’s empowerment and their...

Nsreen Amer

Assessment of the status of women in Libya between reality and law - Part 2 / دراسة تقييم وضع المرأة في ليبيا بين الواقع والقانون - الجزء 2 / Evaluation du statut des femmes en Libye entre réalité et droit - Partie 2

Created by Nsreen Amer 1620 days ago

This study assesses Libya’s compliance with legal norms on women’s rights and gender equality. It is a complex legal and factual research on Libya’s efforts to ensure gender equality and the opportunities and challenges that underpin women’s empowerment and their...

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Anaouat impulse un dialogue politique sur le mariage des filles mineures au Maroc / جمعية النواة تقود حواراً سياسياً لمناهضة زواج القاصرات في المغرب / Anaouat spurs policy dialogue on child marriage in Morocco

Created by Foundation's Team 1710 days ago

Le mariage des filles mineures a été au cœur du dialogue politique que l’Association Anaouat pour la femme et l’enfant a organisé le 19 mars 2019 à Marrakech, au Maroc. Plus de 40 personnalités, dont le procureur de Marrakech, des re...