The 2008 financial crisis is considered by many economists to be the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. A deep recession, high unemployment rates, precariousness and instability are just few of the several seriously damaging effects caused by the breakdown o...
Poverty in Europe today is more than just a lack of resources for survival. It also involves a loss of opportunities for meaningful participation in all areas of life, which can cause detachment and exclusion of such people from society. Due to existing gender inequalities in public and...
As part of the 8th International Congress of Feminist Research in the Francophonie (CIRFF) held at the Paris Nanterre University, the FFEM organizes a conference titled "Fieldwork: Innovative strategies to influence the political and social agenda in the Mediterranean". Thanks to a part...
Nearly 100,000 rapes are perpetrated every year: a multiplication of "miscellaneous facts" or a real social problem? On October 5th 2016, the French High Council for Gender Equality published and handed over to the Minister of Families, Children and Women’s Rights and the Chairperson of...
Parmi les cinq objectifs de sa Stratégie pour l’égalité entre les femmes et les hommes (2014-2017), le Conseil de l’Europe a fait figurer un objectif consistant à collaborer avec les États membres en vue de garantir l’égalit&ea...
Description of the 23 articles of French law decriminalizing prostituted persons, offering them protection and exit options, and criminalizing the purchase of sex acts. / Présentation des 23 articles de la la loi française du 13 avril 2016 sur la prostitution, visant à re...
Women lone parents are particularly vulnerable to poverty in the EU, as they make up almost 85% of all one-parent families. This report casts light on the factors that increase the risk of poverty for lone parents, especially women, and gives recommendations to lower these risks, such as: Increas...
This research note provides an overview of current EU policy and subsequently the current state of play in relation to pensions through the EU Member States. It then contextualises the gender gap in pensions in the context of the core domains of the Gender Equality Index and describes current ine...
This report provides a picture of where women stand today in the world of work and how they have progressed over the past 20 years. It examines the global and regional labour market trends and gaps, including in labour force participation rates, employment-to-population rates and unemployment rat...
This is a training handbook, a guide for newly elected female parliamentarians in Algeria. The main objectives of this guide are to: enhance the capacity of women in the Parliament to promote gender equality in the political sphere and in the development of non-discriminatory laws; provide them w...
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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