On the eve of World Refugee Day, the European Asylum Support Office is taking charge of supporting the asylum process in the EU. This agency is expected to be fully operational by 19 June 2011. This is an opportunity to fight discrimination and ensure gender and equality perpsectives are embedded in its structure and work plan.

The EASO is mandated to engage in support activities that can promote practical cooperation. This includes activities such as recommendations, referral to scientific authority, networking and pooling of good practice, evaluation of the application and implementation of rules etc.

The latest developments in terms of the EASO’s structural organisation, recruitment and policy work have not appeared to be gender-sensitive and no mark of public strong commitments towards the integration of a gender perspective into its structure and work plan have been identified. There are also concerns about the capacity of the EASO to elaborate a sexual orientation and gender identity-sensitive approach. (more…)

To mark the closing  of the Daphne III project ‘Perspective’, which focused on developing and implementing strategies aiming at preventing gender-based violence among young people, MIGS is happy to make available project information leaflets developed within in the context of an information campaign targeting secondary education students and teachers with the aim to raise awareness on gender-based violence as well provide general information on the project objectives and activities. 

The information leaflets are available in English and Greek. (more…)

The Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies [MIGS], in cooperation with Rooftop Theatre, is happy to make available the publication of the theatrical play XX/XY Gender Revelations (XX/XY Αποκαλύψεις Φύλων) , with funding received by the Cyprus Youth Board.   The play is the result of the project ‘Youth Alert: Theatre for the Promotion of Gender Equality Awareness among Young People’, funded by the EEA Financial Mechanism, the Norwegian Financial Mechanism and the Republic of Cyprus and implemented by MIGS in cooperation with the Cyprus Family Planning Association and Rooftop Theatre. (more…)

Currently, the European Institute for Gender Equality, located in Vilnius, Lithuania is still recruiting for the position of Senior Researcher/Analyst, Temporary Agent (AD8) and thus it extended the dead-line for application for this position until 12 September 2010.
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