This document represents the outcome of an expert meeting hosted in Geneva by UN Women and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in November 2016.These recommendations underline the need for a human rights-based and gender-responsive approach to migration governan...
This articles explains the author´s views on feminism and society in Palestine.it emphasizes that the feminist movement in Palestine must have a political and social perspective, which calls not only for freedom from military occupation, but also promotes living in a free society,...
In this interview Delphine Borione, Deputy Secretary-General of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM), explains to the journalists from La Tribune newspaper the work carried out by the institution in favour of young people, with a special focus on women, during the second regional UfM’s for...
This report highlights the struggle of women human rights´ defenders in Egypt, after the revolution of 2011. It features a few examples of Egyptian women with different backgrounds, explaining their experiences, and reasons behind their involvement in the public sphere, and the Human Rights...
This document presents the declaration that was read during the Women’s March Sisters, Paris le 21 January 2017, in solidarity with American women, and women all over the world.The declaration emphasizes on the values of humanity and solidarity, and rejects all forms of discrimination on th...
This study is divided into two parts: one concentrates on the Western Balkans, a region with a long history of strong nationalism, and the other provides a detailed look at five nationalist parties from other European countries (Hungary, Austria, France, The Netherlands and Sweden) and how their ...
The Beirut call of action includes 15 recommendations on prioritizing women, peace and security on the Arab agenda. They fall under three categories: localize the agenda; promote women’s activism in peace and war; and institutionalize joint actions on women, peace and security.The call was ...
Despite the progress made by Tunisian women towards gender equality, different types of discrimination still exists in many areas in Tunisia.This is a summary of a study that was conducted, as a part of the project of the national study on "gender-based violence in public space in Tunisia". The ...
This manual frames and encourages documentation as a politically-motivated telling of women human rights defenders’(WHRDs) stories. The chapters in it provide a tool for capturing the specific nature of violations against WHRDs. The discussions in this publication are grounded in a gender a...
Women in the MENA region are farmers and family and wage workers, but lack control over most resources and other opportunities. Therefore their contribution to the agricultural development and to the broader economic and social development remains limited.This paper questions the ways in which wo...
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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