Even with their strong presence during the uprisings started in 2011, women are still politically under-represented in the Arab countries.This article discusses the gender relations in the Arab world, and their misconception in the European Union.It emphasises the fact that to better understand t...
This report, which includes opinions written by many female experts from the MENA region and other places in the world, highlights the advance in women´s right in the MENA region, 20 years after the Beijing declaration and platform of action. Precisely it coincides with the 15th anniversary...
This report highlights the different types of violence Egyptian women face, in the private and public spheres, in prisons and detentions centres. It brings into attention the obligations of Egypt under international law, and urgent measures of the government to effectively investigate and stop vi...
This Article discusses the reasons behind the changing roles of Syrian women, from active actors during the revolution to their marginalization and exclusion throughout the conflict and during the Geneva II Conference on Syria that took place in Switzerland in 2014.It provides best practices from...
After the overthrow of the regime of Gaddafi and 42 years of dictatorship, Libyans are having the challenge of a democratic change. The stakes are high especially for Libyan women, who actively participated in the uprising and demonstrated great potential and power. However, they still have a lon...
This study highlights women´s participation in unions and politics in Palestine and the gender relations in the framework of the “Arab Spring” uprisings, started at the end of 2010.This study reviews the Palestinian context and the reality of Palestinian women since the 1967 occ...
This is a study about the role of women in society, after the Arab uprisings of late 2010, in which women played their parts as leaders and participants. The study is based on reports conducted by teams of researchers in Egypt, Morocco, the occupied Palestinian territory and Yemen, in addition to...
The papers in this report represent the findings of a conference on Advocating women´s political Participation in transition which took place in Rabat in November 2012. It documents the status of women in decision making in the post-Arab spring context and highlights the struggles and succe...
This paper examines Arab women‘s economic participation, in the transition period in the MENA region, following the Arab uprisings. It aims to assist policy makers and civil society, in shaping a gender responsive inclusive economy. This paper argues that while social values in the Arab cou...
During the last decade, countries in the MENA region have made a progress in gender equality and women´s rights, still, these achievement haven´t ensured an equal role for women on a political and economic level, and women´s participation outside the home is still considered lim...
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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