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…)
On the 11th October 2011 the END FGM European Campaign organised an internal training entitled “END FGM: How to play the Game in the European Union” in Rome. Through a participatory learning environment the training aimed to build and enhance capacities, within and across the END FGM partner organisations, for successfully negotiating END FGM Strategy elements, both at the national and the European Union level. Partner organisations, strong voices and Amnesty International representatives where introduced to good ways to identify targets and develop a relevant negotiation strategy. (more…)
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…)
