Gender Equality

Increased Gender Inequality in Arab Labour Markets due to COVID-19: Causes and Solutions

Increased Gender Inequality in Arab Labour Markets due to COVID-19: Causes and Solutions

Although women have proven themselves in many fields of work, to this day, gender stereotyping against women is very common in Arab society.

 7 October 2020
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Breaking Barriers: the Feminist Transformation in the Mediterranean

Coinciding with International Women's Day, the IEMed and Casa Mediterráneo are organizing a seminar in which the latest issue of Quaderns de la Mediterrània will also be presented.

 8 March 2023

Colonial prostitution: Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco 1830 – 1962

Conference by Christelle Taraud professor of History, New York University and Columbia University, Paris. Introduced by Blanca Camps-Febrer, lecturer, UAB.

 19 May 2022

Azahara Awards: women and diversity

First edition of the 'Azahara Awards: women and diversity' with the aim of publicizing life stories and projects carried out by women with a migrant perspective or daughters of immigration in the counties of Girona.

 2 March 2022
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Forum of Mediterranean Worlds

CLUSTER project and the exhibition "Women in Action: Ending Stereotypes in the Mediterranean" take part of the Forum of Mediterranean Worlds in Marseille.

 7 February 2022
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Virtual Launch of “CLUSTER – advanCing youth and women sociaL inclUSion in The MEditerRanean”

The CLUSTER Launch Conference is a high-level event strengthening networking and dialogue among relevant stakeholders, as a step towards the creation of a supportive regional environment for the employment of NEETs.

 16 November 2021

Communicating the Mediterranean with a Gender Perspective

With the aim of promoting the circulation of knowledge and strengthening trans-Mediterranean exchange, the network seeks to give visibility to silenced realities.

 4 November 2021

Writing workshop

Women's Voice project offers a writing project for the migrant women.

 17 June 2021

Fostering Women’s Economic Participation in the Western Mediterranean: Successful policies for in-depth transformations

This online conference seeks to present gender equality as a cross-sectional axis to build more prosperous, inclusive and sustainable societies.

 7 May 2021

Queer Activism, Intersectional Feminism and National Struggles in Palestine

Ghadir Shafie, director of Aswat, presents the intersectionality that unites the feminist, queer and liberation movements.

 22 April 2021

Rethinking Gender-Based Violence in 2020: Perspectives from Egypt, Lebanon and Syria

Three gender equality experts and representatives of civil society movements address the situation of gender-based violence in their countries, while drawing an alternative map of resilience.

 24 November 2020

Old and New Sexual Nationalisms in Neo-Fascist Times

Nationalism is not just about the nation. Xenophobic and racist nationalisms, typical of the 19th and 20th centuries, define the conception of “us” versus “them” in sexual terms.

 27 February 2020

From the Levant to the Thames and Beyond

Lebanese writer Hanan al Shaykh talks about her work that links to ancient Arab literary traditions when it comes to openly and boldly addressing sexuality and feminism.

 16 January 2020