This research report sheds light on the emergence process of the components of the women’s movement in Morocco and its reasons that can interpreted by the awareness of the women’s elite of the deep contradiction between the progress achieved in education and the integration in the produ...
In the framework of the advocacy campaign ‘Women should hold half of the municipal council’s seats!’ which is leading Mouwatinet Association (Sfax, Tunisia) in favor of women’s political participation in local governance. The initiative is part of the CSO WI...
In this article, Eva Schmidt, a PhD Candidate at the Social and Political Science faculty of Freie Universität Berlin and Associate at IRMC, presents her research project where she analyzes how gender policies changed within the political transition in Tunisia. She analyzes these i...
This report highlights the struggle of women human rights´ defenders in Egypt, after the revolution of 2011. It features a few examples of Egyptian women with different backgrounds, explaining their experiences, and reasons behind their involvement in the public sphere, and the Human Rights...
Although the MENA region has achieved a lot of progress in the field of women´s education, a huge gender gap still persists in the field of women´s economic participation, and access to employment. This briefing argues that introducing diversity through gender parity will benefit econ...
Despite the repressive climate placed by the regime of Al-Sissi un Egypt, the fever for change, which was evident 5 years ago at Tahrir square, has not disappeared, particularly among young Egyptians women whose number is growing and who are longing for the emancipation. These young women are eq...
After the Syrian uprising, different types of media emerged, basically as an alternative to the state´s media.This report addresses the issue of gender equality in Emerging Syrian Media (ESM) and investigates whether the dominant discourse and social practice exacerbate existing levels of i...
This report was prepared on the occasion of the International Women´s Day for the year 2016, by the Wilson Center. It gathers the opinions and aspirations of different women in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and the United States. Covering a wide geographic region, and wide ...
This study focuses on the political participation of women as voters, it aims at identifying the change in the participation of women in political life, the obstacles they face, and the reasons for their participation or not in the voting process. The study was carried out through field research ...
After the revolution of 2011 in Egypt, many Egyptian feminist groups, movements, and NGOs consolidated their efforts in order to promote women’s rights. This paper sheds light on the role of Egyptian women artists, through analysing the cultural production of some of the activists who parti...
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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