This publication seeks to meet a heavy demand of information from members of the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) on the strategies of resistance by women in fundamentalist movements in different religious traditions. It is based on the responses of over 1,600 women righ...
In Sweden, marriage may not be entered into without the valid consent of both people. Nevertheless, many young people are worried that they will not be allowed to choose their own partner or spouse. The Swedish Government has therefore adopted an action plan to prevent young people from being for...
The seventh issue of the journal Culturas aims to provide a better understanding of the situation, habits, false ideas, changes and challenges found by women in the Middle East and elsewhere. This issue focuses on the core themes of women' s life in the different countries, and provides data on t...
"Femmes solidaires" (Women in solidarity) is a feminist, secular, popular education movement. It is committed to fight all forms of discrimination and developing a non-sexist and non-violent education. Women in solidarity informs and sensitizes on the rights of women in order to promot...
This report summarizes the projects and recent publications on research into the role of women in public life in the MENA region (Middle East and North Africa). It brings together the work of young scholars from this region, carried out in the framework of doctoralprojects, completed or published...
This report focuses on the political participation of women within the huge diversity of the Arab world: how have the views and political experiences of women contributed to the democratization of Arab societies? What are the roles of Islam and civil society as facilitators of women' s participat...
During the Arab uprisings, an unprecedented number of women went on the streets, opening the way for a more important role in politics. However, in the following transition period they must fight against their exclusion from the political scene. This brief focuses on the new forms of political pa...
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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