The issue of the right to abortion caused a polemic between the different components of women’s movement ; as it split public opinion into various tendencies. The various reports written by (inter)national institutions in concern of women and...
This dialogue with the Executive Director of Nazra for Feminist Studies, Mozen Hassan, attempts to analyze the reality of the feminist movement in Egypt and to explore its horizons in light of the tightening of the public sphere which hinders women...
In Algeria, where Islam is the State religion, coexist several political and religious divergent trends in which the presence of youth is increasingly noticed. However, the weight of traditions seems to play a strongly rooted role, in religious...
This paper deals with the term ‘’feminism’’ in modern studies, its history and the contributions of various western and Arab writers to this trend, notably, Virginia Woolf and Nawal Al Saadawi. The paper specifically focuses...
This article focuses on the subject of trafficking in women for the purpose of sexual exploitation in Lebanon, where the combination of an already delicate economic situation, a large influx of refugees and an extremely complex and deteriorated...
The global food price crisis of 2007–08 underscored how fragile livelihoods are among the world’s extremely vulnerable people, as it drove 44 million people in developing countries into poverty. In the aftermath of the crisis, in 2009...
Gender-fair language (GFL) aims at reducing gender stereotyping and discrimination. Two principle strategies have been employed to make languages gender-fair and to treat women and men symmetrically: neutralization and feminization. Neutralization...
As part of the OECD Policy Dialogue on Women’s Economic Empowerment, this report focuses on identifying what works to address unpaid care work and sheds light on how governments, donors in the private sector and civil society actors –...
This article discusses the financial promises made by the countries of the world during the last two years to support gender equality, and briefly shows how and why only 1% of this money goes to women’s and feminist organizations. The article also...
The Women (W7) brings together feminist civil society organisations from G7 countries and from all over the world. Its core mission is to ensure that G7 leaders adopt political and financial measures, in 2019 and beyond, which will have a tangible...
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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