This article provides an overview of Turkey’s recent developments in combating violence against women, as well as in gender equality in education, labour force participation, and politics. It presents a set of suggestions related to legislation and implementation for each topic addressed. I...
This report aims to amplify the voices of Syrian women, and add new texture to the portrait of their lives inside Syria and in neighbouring countries. It casts light on women survivors of the conflict, through sharing their stories and using their own words. The report explains their new roles as...
This best practices guide is designed for journalists and media professionals, with the objective of enhancing the quality of reporting on gender-based violence in the Syrian crisis. Its approach focuses on women´s rights and dignity, which can contribute to opening opportunities for Syrian...
This document focuses on the image of women in Tunisian media, after the fall of the regime of Ben Ali, and during the government of Al-Nahda Islamist party. It aims at making an inventory of the evolution of media performance in Tunisia, and the way it treats the subject of gender. It focuses on...
This guide has been designed in order to prevent the production of stereotypes through internal or external governmental communication. This aspect herein is important since public communication could involuntarily reproduce gender stereotypes, contributing in this sense to reinforce inequa...
This report is part of a project entitled “Staying safe online: Gender and Safety on the Internet”. Its main aim is to bring a gender perspective on cyber-bullying and other types of violence within the cyber space. It provides good practices, information, data and examples from Cypru...
This report was accomplished through the review of surveys published in the last 5 years in EU countries that included questions addressing attitudes towards violence against women, in addition to quantitative and qualitative studies on attitudes towards violence against women, published in acade...
This awareness-raising and training guide is aimed at civil society actors. It outlines the overview of the portrayal of women in media productions in the Maghreb region and it provides several examples of negative portrayal of women in media products. The guide emphasizes the discrimination...
This report was prepared in the framework of the project "Strengthening women' s leadership and participation in politics and decision-making in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia", which seeks to improve the status of women in order to strengthen their participation in political life. It proposes a co...
Since 1995, every five years, the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) has documented the trends in women' s and men' s portrayal in the news media. Since the 4th GMMP, on 10 November 2009, 1281 newspapers and radio and television stations have been monitored. The research has analysed 16,734 r...
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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