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 December 8-9, 2011 in Tunis. (more…)

Within the framework of this year’s parliamentary and municipal elections, the Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies is implementing a campaign entitled “Where are the Women? No Democracy without Gender Equality”.

The aim of the campaign is to promote the equal representation of women in the House of Representatives and in local government as well as to promote and contribute to public dialogue on the persistent underrepresentation of women in political decision-making. (more…)

The MEP Antigoni Papadopoulou (S&D) described the new European Directive on combating sexual abuse, sexual exploitation of children and child pornography that was adopted by the European Parliament as a major step forward with the ultimate goal of zero tolerance for all crimes against children. (more…)

The conference on ‘Young Migrant Women in Secondary Education: Promoting Integration and Mutual Understanding through Dialogue and Exchange’ was held on June 16, 2011 at the Newton Amphitheatre in the premises of the University of Nicosia.

The conference was organised within the framework of the project also entitled ‘Young Migrant Women in Secondary Education: Promoting integration and mutual understanding through dialogue and exchange’, funded by the European Commission Fund for the Integration of Third-country Nationals. Partners to the project included the Centre of Research in Theories and Practices that Overcome Inequalities (CREA), University of Barcelona (Spain); the Centre for Rights, Equalities and Social Justice (CRESJ) at the Institute of Education, University of London (UK); the Department of Sociology, Panteion University (Greece); and the Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Educational Research (EMCER), University of Malta (Malta). The conference launched the research reports produced by all five partners and marked the completion of the project which had duration of 18 months. (more…)