Within the framework of its project entitled “Enhancing women’s rights, gender equality and civil society participation in the context of the Istanbul-Marrakech Process” funded by the European Union and the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation (AECID), the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network organized the Gender Working Group’s bi-annual meeting on April 25-27, 2013 in Dead Sea, [...]
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The Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies is a partner to a project coordinated by the City of Modena, Italy entitled LOGIN; Laboratories On Gender violence In New media, and funded by the European Commission Daphne III Programme. Other partners to the project include Centro Documentazione Donna (Italy); UNIFCEF (Italy); Cap Sciences Humaines (Belgium); Women’s Issues [...]
The 11th Cyprus Sociological Association Conference entitled ” Rerevisiting Sexualities in the 21st Century” will take place on 7-9 June 2013, in Nicosia. Co-organisers of the Conference are the University of Nicosia, the Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies, the Cyprus Family Planning Association, and ACCEPT LGBT Cyprus. The aim of this inter-disciplinary and cross-disciplinary conference is [...]
On 7 May 2012 civil society organizations issued a press release condemning the May 2012 issue of the magazine TIME OUT for the advertising of cabarets and escort agencies. The press release was also filed as a public complaint with the Cyprus Media Complaint Commission (CMCC). Specifically the organizations stated that the May issue promotes [...]
On 13 May in Budapest, the new Executive Committee of the EWL was elected by delegates from 30 countries and representing more than 2000 organisations across Europe.
