In partnership with several organisations, the Council of Europe has put together a series of recommendations and documents to prevent and combat sexism, defined as "any expression (act, word, image, gesture) based on the idea that some persons, most often women, are inferior becau...
This handbook will be relevant for every organisation and for all work contexts, bothin the public and private sector. However, the content has been tailored to the contextof the EU institutions and agencies (1). The focus of this handbook is to help organisations understand the nature...
On 27 March 2019, the Committee of Ministers adopted the Recommendation CM/Rec(2019)1 on preventing and combating sexism. It comprises a comprehensive catalogue of measures both to prevent and to condemn sexism, and it calls for specific action in such areas as: language ...
This policy brief first looks at water issues within the Mediterranean with a special focus on water as a human right. Subsequently, it maps the challenges faced by young water professionals and provides some insights into how the potential of young experts could be further boosted. The...
In order to enable women to protect themselves from cyber-violence, the Hubertine Auclert Center has launched this guide which provides simple and handy advices and recommendations for using digital tools, navigating the internet and communicating on social networks in total safety. Ea...
This study is based on interviews with 123 female MPs and parliamentary staff in Council of Europe member States. It provided figures and document a range of sexist and violent behaviour against women in parliaments. It also seeks to assess the extent and highlight the particular forms ...
This guide focuses specifically on gender inequalities. Based on the sharing of experiences between Science Europe members, this document proposes a variety of approaches to achieving gender equality in the research and research funding field. It highlights examples of good practices an...
On July 3rd 2018, the municipal council of Tunis elected Souad Abderrahim as the city’s first female mayor. Abderrahim, a 53-year-old pharmacist and former MP from the Muslim Democratic Party Ennahda, is also the first elected female mayor of a capital city in the Arab world, and ...
On the occasion of the International Congress of Feminist Research in the Francophonie (CIRFF) at the Paris Nanterre University, on August 28, the FFEM is organizing a photography workshop titled "Breaking Gender Stereotypes in the Euro-Mediterranean Region: Photographers in Action".&nb...
Under the title "Women in action: Breaking Gender Stereotypes in the Mediterranean", the exhibition shows women who are generally invisible and not well-known even though they dare to break the rules imposed by patriarchal societies. This exhibition is the result of the photo competitio...
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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