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...
This publication provides practical and evidence-based guidance on how to improve women’s access to land as an essential element to achieve social and economic development and enjoyment of human rights, peace and stability in the specific context of the Muslim world. The challenge...
With an FGM prevalence of 87.2% among all women aged 15-49 in a population of nearly 95 million, Egypt has the greatest number of women and girls who have experienced Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) of any country in the world. The prime purpose of this Country Profile is to impro...
This document provides an unofficial English translation of the 2004 Moroccan Family Law (Moudawana). This translation tries to provide as faithfully as possible the original Arabic text, therefore it gives a literal translation to the articles and content of the Moroccan Family Law. It aims to b...
This paper focuses on the merits and demerits of Syria’s pluralistic family law. It describes some of the detrimental consequences that this asymmetrical plurality can have on the lives of individuals. The paper then focuses on the versatility of the family law system, in particular on lega...
This text features the amendments made in 2012 to the Tunisian Personal Status Code enacted in 1956. It addresses many aspects that have direct effects on women’s lives (marriage, divorce, parentage, custody, succession and donations, etc.). Among the most progressive measures of the code a...
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 booklet is intended to help social workers to provide proper legal information in their interviews with women. Written both in English and French, it aims to enrich social workers’ legal background, enabling them to answer women’s simple legal questions in cases of emergencies un...
This report focuses on three articles of the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW): article 11 on equal rights to employment, article 12 on equal rights of access to health services and article 16 on equal rights in marriage and family relations. It forms part of t...
This article from the journal Genre, sexualité & société examines the matrimonial systems in Maghreb countries in accordance with the social changes, notably in the field of education. It seeks to assess to what extent the mass schooling of young girls, the extension of s...
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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