The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN), in partnership with MIGS, Kvinna till Kvinna (Sweeden), Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (Egypt), Adalah (Israel), is implementing the 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). (more…)

The Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies (MIGS) welcomes the recently published report of the Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA) that concerns the implementation of the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings by Cyprus.  GRETA is the monitoring mechanism to supervise the implementation of states’ obligations under the Convention that has been signed and ratified by Cyprus and entered into force on 1 February 2008. (more…)

MIGS is pleased to announce the publication of the book “Young Migrant Women in Secondary Education: Promoting Integration and Mutual Understanding through Dialogue and Exchange”.  The book is the result of an 18-month project funded by the European Fund for the Integration of Third Country Nationals of the European Commission and coordinated by the Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies (MIGS).  (more…)

The Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies is pleased to present the recommendations which mark the completion of the project ‘Young Migrant Women in Secondary Education: Promoting Integration and Mutual Understanding through Dialogue and Exchange’.

Policies developed for the integration of migrant children in schools usually fail to recognise the dynamic of gender in relation to then transnational experience of migrants. Having abandoned past assimilation approaches, schools in many European countries now try to build integration policies and develop practices on the basis of respect for cultural diversity. (more…)