This report is part of the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children of the UN Commission on Human Rights. It highlights Bosnia and Herzegovina’s commitment to combating trafficking in persons, as evidenced by its legislative and policy. The report focuses ...
Data on the prevalence of human trafficking show that the majority of the victims are women and girls. Sexual exploitation is by far the first purpose of trafficking in women. This briefing highlights the special vulnerabilities of women and girls and the efforts of the European Union and the int...
In 2015, over one million asylum seekers made their way towards Western Europe by sea, resulting in the largest refugee crisis in Europe since World War II.This report aims at gaining a better understanding of the specific needs, priorities and risk factors women and girls face on the migration r...
This report is a result of an assessment mission to Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, which are transit countries for a massive movement of refugees trying to cross to Europe. Bearing in mind the difficult route the refugees are taking, women and girls are among the most vulne...
The study examines the legislative action needed in order to fully implement the Resolution 1325 about women, peace and security in seven Arab countries: Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Palestine, Tunisia and Yemen. It falls under the Development Account project on institutional and capacity-buildin...
The National Plan for Gender Equality, Citizenship and Non-Discrimination 2014-2017 forms part of Portugal’s commitments at an international level, notably within the framework of the United Nations, the Council of Europe, the European Union and the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countrie...
The study aims to analyse the forms of violence against migrant and refugee women in the Euromed region and the impact of the policies and programmes implemented to combat this violence, particularly in the framework of the Euro-Mediterranean political process. It identified the shortcomings in t...
The Lebanese Center for Human Rights (CLDH) is a local non-profit, non-partisan Lebanese human rights organization based in Beirut. CLDH was created in 2006 by the Franco-Lebanese Movement SOLIDA (Support for Lebanese Detained Arbitrarily), which has been active since 1996 in the strugg...
Tamkeen is a Jordanian non-governmental organization that works on promoting the principles of human rights, combatting human trafficking; as well as protecting the rights of the most vulnerable groups in society, particularly migrant workers and refugees, through a three-prong strategy...
This report reviews the measures, policies and actions developed in the framework of the implementation of the national priorities in terms of policies and action axes for gender equality 2004-2008. It monitors the following action axes: a) combating trafficking in women for the purpose of their ...
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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