The Doria Feminist Fund seeks to create a feminist ecosystem where the new generation of feminist movement in the MENA region has access to more and better funding and resources which enables the development and sustainability of its activism to advance the rights, wellbeing, and securi...
Women play an outsized role in the care economy in the Arab States, performing 4.7 times more unpaid care work than men – the highest female– to–male ratio anywhere in the world. This policy brief is based on the report Progress of Women in the Arab States 2020:...
International Conference on Celebrating Arab Women: Agents of Change and Progress Women in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region contend with social practices founded on patriarchal values, confining them to a secondary position in these male-dominated societies. History, past...
Les militantes féministes et les universitaires estiment que l’économie des soins est vitale pour le bien-être et des communautés de la région arabe, en particulier lorsque ces communautés rencontrent des difficultés pour assurer leu...
Call for Participation: Rethinking Social transformations - Inequalities in the Arab region in light of Covid-19 Deadline: 30 April 2020 (Call for Abstracts) See point 3 for application procedure. 1. Overview The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide in early 2020 laid bare...
افتتحت بتونس العاصمة أشغال ملتقى "برلمانيات" الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا والمنعقدة يومي 26 و27 فيفري/فبراير 2020، بتنظيم من مركز المرأة العربية للتدريب والبحوث "كوثر" ومنتدى الفيدراليات الكندي وسفارة كندا. وخلال الجلسة الافتتاحية، أكدت الدكتورة سكينة بوراوي المديرة التنفيذية لكوثر أهمية الأدو...
On 4 December 2019, a Workshop on “Tourism: Generating jobs for Youth in the MENA Region” will take place at the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM)’s Headquarters in Barcelona. The event is a follow up of the UfM Secretariat’s Brainstorming Meeting on Tourism, hel...
The #MeToo movement has evolved into a unique, intersectional feminist social media campaign, calling for the public sharing of sexual assault and harassment testimonies to illustrate the commonplace experience of sexual violence against women. It is “ultimately a plea for justice...
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...
Womenpreneur Initiative and SANAD Entrepreneurship Academy are joining forces to launch the "Womenpreneur Tour", an amazing initiative that aims to promote female entrepreneurship in the MENA region (Middle East and North Africa), particularly in the fields...
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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