Communication of the Council of Europe Ahead of International Women’s Day on Sunday 8 March 2020, Council of Europe Secretary General Marija Pejčinović Burić has called on all member states to change how rape is defined. In an opinion article published in the EU Observer, she sa...
The Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019, and Violence and Harassment Recommendation, 2019, were adopted on the final day of the Centenary International Labour Conference, in June 2019 in Geneva. The Convention recognizes that violence and harassment in the world of...
Together with the international community, Cyprus recently marked the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and Girls and the start of another year’s 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence (GBV). Violence against women and girls is a huge and g...
On September 2011, the European Parliament adopted a resolution which included measures to prevent and combat mobbing and sexual harassment at the workplace, in public spaces, and in political life in the EU. The resolution underlines the urgent need for member states, local authoriti...
This report discusses how we should deal with gender issues in transport policy and planning. It summarizes not only the current situation women very often face in urban transport worldwide, but it also outlines why gender responsive transport planning is needed, and offers best practic...
On the occasion of International Women’s Day on March 8, UN Women launches two initiatives, the first is a call for participation in a series of collective writing workshops in several Arab countries, in cooperation with volunteers and local partners. Entitled ’’ Her Story ’’ this initi...
The project CSO WINS ‘’Capacity-Building in the Southern Mediterranean to Open Policy Dialogue and Monitoring for Women in Society’’, is a European Union funded project. It targets local associations in order to strengthen their ability to mobilise public op...
Despite the fact that law criminalizes sexual and verbal harassment, women and girls are still suffering of this type of violence which intimidates them and limits their presence and participation in public and recreational activities. Early in 2017, the Information and communication am...
Developed by the Higher Council for Professional Equality between Women and Men, this kit for action against sexism is composed of three tools for the workplace. The first part is a legal sheet on sexist behaviour. The second, also discusses sexist behaviour. As for the third part, it p...
Au cours des dernières années, l’ampleur de la violence sexuelle en Égypte a considérablement augmenté, surtout après la révolution populaire de 2011, quand des viols de masse et des agressions sexuelles ont eu lieu lors de plusieurs mani...
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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