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Nawal Mustafa

Nawal Mustafa won the Princess Sabeeka Al Khalifa International Award for Women Empowerment

Created by Nawal Mustafa 158 days ago

...er, after which she was the pioneer in the case of female prisoners of poverty, which was then adopted by so...rom Egyptian prisons in 2007, support nearly 5,000 female prisoners of poverty, pay off 8,000 debts, and lau...

Nawal Mustafa

Children of Female Prisoners Association wins the Samuel Habib Prize for Voluntary Social Work 2022

Created by Nawal Mustafa 451 days ago

...the Samuel Habib Award for Excellence in Creative Voluntary Work. The Association committed to rehabilitate the female prisoners in situation of poverty and to integrate them into so...

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The call for the 36th Prize 8 de Marzo-Maria Aurèlia Capmany of 2022 is open until March 10th

Created by Foundation's Team 458 days ago

...pport projects with a gender, intersectional and social justice perspective, which help to advance in the fight against job insecurity and female poverty. Conditions of participation...

Nawal Mustafa

Launching the partnership between Children of Female Prisoners and Frisiana to train and employ 1,000 female prisoners in situation of poverty

Created by Nawal Mustafa 475 days ago

...nding aims to support the current and former prisoners in situation of poverty targeted by the association,...rt to the target group of current and former prisoners in situation of poverty, and seeks to achieve this th...

Maria Àngels Roque

Launch Conference of CLUSTER: advanCing youth and women sociaL inclUSion in The MEditerRanean project

Created by Maria Àngels Roque 560 days ago

...ollowing the COVID-19 pandemic have heavily hit employment opportunities in the Euro-Mediterranean region, raising numbers of citizens at risk of poverty and social exclusion, and hur...

Maria Àngels Roque

IEMed awarded a grant to tackle social exclusion and poverty amongst vulnerable groups

Created by Maria Àngels Roque 649 days ago

...ivate sector, and raising awareness of public authorities and policymakers. The overall objective of CLUSTER is to tackle social exclusion and poverty amongst vulnerable groups in...

Esther Fouchier

European Women's Lobby declaration on COVID-19

Created by Esther Fouchier 1166 days ago

...ker of their household, and those of others in situations of isolation, and economic insecurity; Women who are at risk or currently experiencing poverty, social exclusion or homeless...

Esther Fouchier

Coeur de Femmes - 4 and 5 March 2020 in Marseille

Created by Esther Fouchier 1189 days ago

...fully exercise their rights. In this sense, local solidarity networks will be developed. Several studies show that women are doubly affected by poverty, in particular, because of th...

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Exploring local perceptions of women in decision-making in Ma'an governorate

Created by Foundation's Team 1627 days ago

...g, women’s presence in high rank, political and leadership positions remains way lower than aspired, especially in areas with high rates of poverty and unemployment.  As an...

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Intensive efforts in Alexandria to engage men in the fight against VAW

Created by Foundation's Team 1627 days ago

...ent Association, this type of violence is widespread in Alexandria governorate, especially in densely-populated neighbourhoods that are marked by poverty, illiteracy, the spread of er...

Events

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EMWF and CLUSTER participate in the Forum of Mediterranean Worlds in Marseille on 7 and 8 February 2022

Created by Foundation's Team 504 days ago

...t Agency, in the framework of the Mediterranean World Forum. The overall objective of CLUSTER project is to combat social exclusion and poverty among vulnerable groups in Cy...

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Period Poverty in Europe

Created by Foundation's Team 733 days ago

...s among the European youth and wider population on the issue of period poverty in Europe. The event wil...reness around what is done and could be done in Europe to fight period poverty. Register here....

Maria Àngels Roque

Conference In, on, around, across the Mediterranean: Challenging representation

Created by Maria Àngels Roque 916 days ago

...; trafficking of migrants; the crowded beach (or the picturesque quiet cove) – the overcrowded refugee camp looking out to a forbidden sea; poverty and destitution – wealt...

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Workshops on Women, Agriculture, Climate and Empowerment at the CSW62

Created by Foundation's Team 1936 days ago

...ion will also participate the same day at 6:30pm on the theme "Social economy in the digital age as a factor for reducing rural women’s poverty in Mediterranean countries".&...

Khulud Khamis

Fighting against Trafficking in Women and Prostitution, titled Between Marginality and Prostitution: A Feminist Perspective on Prostitution

Created by Khulud Khamis 2393 days ago

...culty of Law; Guy Bruker, PhD student of Anthropology, University of Haifa. Facilitator: Ronit Piso. 14:10 – 15:20 Session 4: Prostitution and Poverty – Panel Discussion Beatric...

Shared practices

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Economic empowerment of rural women through access to resources and rights

Created by Foundation's Team 2939 days ago

...hts. This practice was implemented in the village of Oued Sbayhia, 60 km from Tunis (Zaghouan Governorate), characterised by high rates of female poverty, illiteracy and unemployment...

Calls and opportunities

Maria Àngels Roque

Technical support of project and communication for CLUSTER

Created by Maria Àngels Roque 627 days ago

...ear, the IEMed was awarded a grant to tackle social exclusion and poverty amongst vulnerable groups, th...alestine and Tunisia. The project aims to address social exclusion and poverty among vulnerable groups, focu...

Maria Àngels Roque

Apply to become Project Manager for CLUSTER

Created by Maria Àngels Roque 627 days ago

...ear, the IEMed was awarded a grant to tackle social exclusion and poverty amongst vulnerable groups, th...lestine, and Tunisia. The project aims to address social exclusion and poverty among vulnerable groups, focu...

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Call for Papers UNESCO: Inequalities in the Arab region in light of Covid-19

Created by Foundation's Team 1141 days ago

...deteriorating living conditions, the rising rates of unemployment and poverty, the inaccessibility to a pri...ansformations (MOST) contributes to development, to the eradication of poverty, to inclusive and sustainable...

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UNDP is looking for Sustainable Development Goals Expert in Yemen

Created by Foundation's Team 1155 days ago

...: Sanaa, YEMEN Application Deadline : 17-Apr-20 (Midnight New York, USA) Additional Category : Sustainable Development and Poverty Reduction Post Level : ...

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Call for Proposals - Conference: The Body at Work : Gender, Labour, Migration

Created by Foundation's Team 1176 days ago

...al culture. Possible topics include (but are not limited to): - Remuneration and the value of work - Reproductive labour - The feminization of poverty - Gendered experiences of mi...

Resources

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Women's Bank: a network to support sustainable entrepreneurship among women

Created by Foundation's Team 1392 days ago

...and their families in Africa, Asia and other continents by alleviating poverty. Women’s Bank was foun...women’s entrepreneurship is the most efficient way of decreasing poverty in the world, as women and gi...

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Egyptian Association for Comprehensive Development (EACD)

Created by Foundation's Team 2810 days ago

...e next generation and are the hope for a better future. Unfortunately, poverty in Egypt still affects 40 per...ffer from malnutrition and subsequently from lifelong health problems. Poverty forces children to look for w...

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Resource Centre for Women (MARTA)

Created by Foundation's Team 2918 days ago

...rtha Association in Finland and Women Organizations of Latvia. This entity searches for various fundraising opportunities and endorses combating poverty and female exclusion, elimina...

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World Bank – Gender and development

Created by Foundation's Team 2942 days ago

Gender equality has become one of the strategic components of the World Bank in its fight to reduce poverty. In 2007, the World Bank launched an action plan in favour of gender equality aimed at increasing the economic opportunities for women to access land, work, agriculture and financial services.

Documents

Monia Braham

Implementing the 2030 Agenda in the Arab Region with a Gender and Green Local Development perspective

Created by Monia Braham 482 days ago

...o;’. Moreover, incidence of poverty among female-headed household...ale headed-household, which means poverty is widespread among household...mbating exclusion and alleviating poverty. However, green economy has b...tion with violence, conflicts and poverty, remains the most pressing de...

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Global Land Tool Network Gender Strategy 2019 - 2030: Towards securing women's and girls'land and property rights

Created by Foundation's Team 679 days ago

...property rights, including housing in rural, peri-urban and urban contexts. Improving the rights of women and girls to land is vital to overcome poverty and inequality, ensure justic...

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Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment: an overview on main donors and key stakeholders'contributions in the Euro-Mediterranean region

Created by Foundation's Team 941 days ago

The positive contribution of women to economic growth, poverty reduction and societal well-being has been well documented in many studies. In the Euro-Mediterranean region,...

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Essential Services Package for Women and Girls Subject to Violence

Created by Foundation's Team 959 days ago

...achievement, public policies and budgets, and help break the recurrent cycle of violence. The Essential Service Package also plays a key role in poverty reduction and development and...

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SDGs and Child Marriage

Created by Foundation's Team 969 days ago

...ities between now and 2030. They are a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensur..., we will fall short on eight of the SDGs, including those related to: poverty, food security, health, educa...

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From Insights to Action: Gender equality in the wake of COVID-19

Created by Foundation's Team 977 days ago

...search and policy work produced by UN Women on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women and girls, including how it is affecting extreme poverty, employment, health, unpaid c...

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What can be done about the persistence of child marriage in Morocco?

Created by Foundation's Team 999 days ago

...equally universal dimensions, namely inequality between men and women, gender discrimination, patriarchy, lack of education, social exclusion and poverty. The analysis focuses on the...

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Gender Inequalities and Food Insecurity: Ten years after the food price crisis, why are women farmers still food-insecure?

Created by Foundation's Team 1392 days ago

...cored how fragile livelihoods are among the world’s extremely vulnerable people, as it drove 44 million people in developing countries into poverty. In the aftermath of the cris...

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Key Comparable Gender Indicators for the European Neighbourhood Policy - South countries

Created by Foundation's Team 1435 days ago

...ies. At the same time, however, they intersect with traditional statistical sections, which include statistics on households, health, economics, poverty, education and training, huma...

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Women's Rights in Western Balkans

Created by Foundation's Team 1572 days ago

...and hope for the better future, are in fact, all in a volitile economic position, with parts of their populations facing unemployment and risk of poverty. This makes for very difficul...

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Précarité menstruelle en Europe / / Period Poverty in Europe

Created by Foundation's Team 733 days ago

Pour marquer le #MenstrualHygieneDay de cette année, Young Feminist Europe organise un événement conjoint pour sensibiliser la jeunesse européenne et la population en général au problème de la pauvreté menstruelle en Europe. L&r...

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Harnessing the Power of Data for Gender Equality: Introducing the 2019 EM2030 SDG Gender Index / Tirer parti des données pour atteindre l'égalité de genre : présentation de l'Indice du genre dans les ODD 2019 d'EM2030 / تسخير قوة البيانات من أجل المساواة بين الجنسين: تقديم مؤشر النوع الاجتماعي في...

Created by Foundation's Team 1316 days ago

The index presented in this report is the most comprehensive tool available to explore the state of gender equality across 129 countries (covering 95% of the world’s girls and women), 14 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and 51 targets linked to issues inherent in th...

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Gender Inequalities and Food Insecurity: Ten years after the food price crisis, why are women farmers still food-insecure? / Inégalités de genre et insécurité alimentaire : 10 ans après la crise des prix des denrées alimentaires, pourquoi les agricultrices souffrent-elles encore de la faim ? / عد...

Created by Foundation's Team 1392 days ago

The global food price crisis of 2007–08 underscored how fragile livelihoods are among the world’s extremely vulnerable people, as it drove 44 million people in developing countries into poverty. In the aftermath of the crisis, in 2009 the Food and Agriculture Organization of...

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Women's Bank: a network to support sustainable entrepreneurship among women / Women's Bank: un réseau pour soutenir l'entreprenariat féminin durable / بنك النساء: شبكة لدعم ريادة الأعمال النسائية المستدامة

Created by Foundation's Team 1392 days ago

Women’s Bank is a Finnish innovation, a volunteer Network which raises funds to support women’s sustainable entrepreneurship and livelihood in developing countries. The goal of Women’s Bank is to support women and their families in Africa, Asia and other continents by alleviating povert...

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Girls'Access to Education in Palestine: Focus on various Localities in Area C / L'accès des filles à l'éducation en Palestine: focus sur plusieurs localités de la zone C / وصول الفتيات إلى التعليم في فلسطين: التركيز على عدد من مجتمعات المنطقة ج

Created by Foundation's Team 1560 days ago

This article focuses on girls’ access to school education in "Area C" where security and administrative authorities are under Israeli control since the Oslo Accords in 1993, including factors that lead to girls’ recurrent absences and school dropouts. The article is based on a fi...

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Women's Rights in Western Balkans / Droits des femmes dans les Balkans occidentaux / حقوق المرأة في غرب البلقان

Created by Foundation's Team 1572 days ago

This study analyzes the countries of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo,  Montenegro and Serbia and is executed so as to address the following issues: Economic-social factors relevant to women’s rights, Violence against women (VAW), i...

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Violence against women based on gender in the Jordanian society - Zarqa and Mafraq governorates as case study / La violence à l'égard des femmes basée sur le genre dans la société jordanienne - Les gouvernorats de Zarqa et Mafraq comme étude de cas / العنف ضد المرأة المبني على النوع الاجتماعي في ...

Created by Foundation's Team 1676 days ago

This study is based on field results that reflect the current situation of violence against women based on gender in remote areas in Jordan. The study deals with the issue of violence from a legal, sociological and human rights perspective in accordance with the international standards ...

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Ensuring gender equity in climate change financing / Assurer l'égalité hommes - femmes dans le financement de la lutte contre les changements climatiques / ضمان الإنصاف بين الجنسين في التمويل المتعلق بتغير المناخ

Created by Foundation's Team 1708 days ago

Climate change presents one of the largest threats to worldwide efforts to reduce poverty and vulnerability. If left unchecked, it risks reversing progress towards the Millennium Development Goals and threatens long-term development progress. This reports provides a broader overview o...

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Fighting against female school dropouts in Areas C in Bethlehem and Hebron / النضال لإيقاف تسرب الفتيات من المدارس في المنطقة (ج) في بيت لحم والخليل / Lutter contre l'abandon scolaire des filles à Bethléem et Hébron

Created by Foundation's Team 1711 days ago

Education is considered as an important factor in enhancing a person’s opportunities in social and economic mobility. However, leaving school at an early age remains a problem, to which poverty and being female are generally associated with. To further analyze this issue, the Psyc...

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Women and Men in Belgium: Gender Statistics and Indicators / Femmes et hommes en Belgique : Statistiques et indicateurs de genre / النساء والرجال في بلجيكا: إحصاءات ومؤشرات جندرية

Created by Foundation's Team 1746 days ago

This third edition of ‘Women and Men in Belgium’ gives us a detailed overview of the main gender indicators, divided into thematic chapters. The following topics are discussed: population, migration, income and poverty, paid work, business management, work / life balance, ti...

They are registered on the platform of the Euro-Mediterranean Women's Foundation

Silvia Gagliardi
Association féminine pour la protection de la famille
Nisaa Network
Zouhair Gassim
Mediterraneo Sociale
Abdulhakeq Al Barghazi
University of Coimbra
RUSEMEG - Réseau Universitaire et Scientifique Euro-Méditerranéen
Association Talassemtane pour l'Environnement et Développement (ATED)
MSA University
Women in Morocco
Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies (MIGS)
Women'  s Alliance for Virtual Exchange (WAVE)
Albanian Journalists Group (AJG)
Al-Thoria Studies Center
Hassine Karim Glaied
Amal Association for Women and Development
Alternative Movement for Individual Freedoms M.A.L.I.
Musawa Women’s Study Center
EuroMed Rights
Women's aspirations Association
Green Globe
Cork Feminista
Leïla Tauil
Juzoor for Health and Social Development (Juzoor)
Mixité et Gouvernance en Méditerranée
Association of Continuity of Generations - ACG
Faculty of Media & Knowledge Sciences, University of Malta
FILASTINIYAT
Asociación de Investigadores Extranjeros (AINVEX)
Association ACM
Fadilia Foundation
هلدا عواد
Kayan Feminist Organization
PRODES
Isha L'Isha - Haifa Feminist Center

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ندوة تحت عنوان العنف ضد النساء خلال جائحة كورونا حصيلة وشهادات

في إطار الحملة الاممية لمناهضة العنف ضد النساء, نظمت فدرالية رابطة حقوق النساء يوم 24 نونبر 2020 ندوة تحت عنوان العنف ضد النساء...

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Success Story: The Project of Combating Early Marriage. In cooperation with Equality Now in Lebanon, the Association of the...

The Global Treaty to End Violence Against Women and Girls

Women’s rights activists in Morocco, Tunisia, and 126 other countries launch global treaty to end violence against women...

Virtual Meeting: Social-Friendly Media Content to Support Women's Leadership through the Use of Modern Technology

CAWTAR held a virtual meeting on social-friendly media content to support women’s leadership through the use of modern...

Creating Safer Workplaces: Towards Sexual Harassment Policies in Lebanon

The Arab Foundation for Freedoms and Equality (AFE) in partnership with HIVOS and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the...