This report highlights forced marriage as a form of domestic violence. The right to marry (Article 9) falls under Title II ‘Freedoms’ of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.The report questions the roles of civil and international laws in the fight against forced m...
This report examines the implementation of “The Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Guidelines for Gender Based Violence in Humanitarian settings”, in the context of the Syrian Crisis, which started in 2011. The evaluation was conducted in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KR-I), Jorda...
This report explains the reality of refugee women who head their household alone, and who fled Syria to Jordan, Lebanon or Egypt. It casts light on the traumatic experience of women who escaped war, and found themselves in new changed roles, responsible for their families. The report is based on ...
This report forms part of the monitoring of the Euro-Ministerial Conference on the Role of Women in Society, notably the preparatory conference in Rabat in June 2006. The document revises the different European Commission projects for better participation of women in the economic, social, politic...
The study aims to analyse the forms of violence against migrant and refugee women in the Euromed region and the impact of the policies and programmes implemented to combat this violence, particularly in the framework of the Euro-Mediterranean political process. It identified the shortcomings in t...
94.5 million international migrants are women. On the occasion of a session of the United Nations General Assembly on migration, the UNFPA has prepared a report on the challenges and opportunities linked to women's international migration. The report focuses on the positive impact of migrant wome...
This study deals with the issue of discrimination in the labour market based on several criteria notably related to migrant or second generation women. Multicriteria discrimination as an object of knowledge and contributions to knowledge is an issue pending further exploration both by social and ...
This publication addresses the gender equality policy led by the Finnish government and outlines the future policy until the year 2020 by reviewing its different fields of implementation (decision-making; education and research; reconciliation of work and family life; the role of men; intimate pa...
In Sweden, marriage may not be entered into without the valid consent of both people. Nevertheless, many young people are worried that they will not be allowed to choose their own partner or spouse. The Swedish Government has therefore adopted an action plan to prevent young people from being for...
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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