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Women in research: recommendations for gender equality in higher education

Women in research: recommendations for gender equality in higher education | EuroMed gender equality news | Scoop.it
Dr Anamaria Dutceac Segesten suggests how academia can support women in HE and discusses the findings by Gender in Science group (RT @APEERsurvey: Women in research: recommendations for gender equality in higher education
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MENA: High-growth companies for regional development

MENA: High-growth companies for regional development | EuroMed gender equality news | Scoop.it
TechWadiorg: Add the OECD to the long list of proponents of high-tech entrepreneurship in MENA as a means for region...
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Gender equality must be at the heart of the global development agenda after 2015

Gender equality must be at the heart of the global development agenda after 2015 | EuroMed gender equality news | Scoop.it
The Millennium Development Goals are soon to expire, and the UK has an influential role to play in deciding what comes next.
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Futurity.org – Women dubbed 'Twitterati' of Arab Spring

Futurity.org – Women dubbed 'Twitterati' of Arab Spring | EuroMed gender equality news | Scoop.it
RICE (US) — During the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings, young women in the region used social media and cyberactivism to carve out central roles in the revolutionary struggles under way in their countries.
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Afrah Nasser: One year after the women took to the streets of Yemen

Afrah Nasser: One year after the women took to the streets of Yemen | EuroMed gender equality news | Scoop.it
Ramzia Al-Eryani and Bilkis Zabara are two of the women, representing the academic world and the activist movement respectively, who are working to change the future for Yemeni women. “There's no Arab Spring in Yemen ...
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Gender Equality: Central & Eastern Europe | Visual.ly

Gender Equality: Central & Eastern Europe | Visual.ly | EuroMed gender equality news | Scoop.it
Why invest in gender equality in Central & Eastern Europe...
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Tunisian Olympic medalists draw radicals’ ire amid debate over role of Islam, women

TUNIS, Tunisia — Islamist extremists have targeted two Tunisian Olympic medalists for behavior and dress seen as un-Islamic, as debate grows over the role of religion and women in the country that unleashed the Arab Spring uprisings.
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OECD presents gender inequality index at UN Women ...

Members from UNWomen and OECD discuss the OECD's new gender equality index. From the Right: Somali Cerise, Gender Project Coordinator at OECD Development Centre, Saraswathi Menon, Director of Policy at UN ...
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Lebanese advocates ABAAD partner with men for gender equality - WNN - Women News Network

WNN - Women News NetworkLebanese advocates ABAAD partner with men for gender equalityWNN - Women News NetworkRaising awareness about gender sensitivity and equality of the sexes, a woman from ABAAD – Resource Center for Gender Equality hands out an...
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New EU-funded project to endorse gender equality in Morocco

New EU-funded project to endorse gender equality in Morocco | EuroMed gender equality news | Scoop.it
The EU and Morocco this week signed a financing agreement for a support programme to the implementation of the governmental Plan for Equality. This programme will last 48 months and has a budget of &e...
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About Us « The Women Worldwide Initiative - Women's Philanthropy ...

Women's Philanthropy--Women's Issues. Women's Philanthropy is a focus for empowering the lives of women and girls. Supporting non-profit programs that help women and girls through encouragement to build lives that ...
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Enhancing women's rights, gender equality and civil society ...

The overall objective of the project is to contribute to the improvement of gender equality and increasing the respect for women's rights in the Euro-Mediterranean region. ...
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Thousands demonstrate in Tunisia for women's rights in new ...

August 14, 2012. Thousands of Tunisians rallied on Monday to protest against what they see as a push by the Islamist-led government for constitutional changes that would degrade women's status in one of the Arab world's ...
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Tunisian women march for their rights

Tunisian women march for their rights | EuroMed gender equality news | Scoop.it
On a symbolic day that marks Tunisian women's liberties, thousands converged in the capital to voice their demands.
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The Muslim Brotherhood Following Mubarak's Footsteps

The Muslim Brotherhood Following Mubarak's Footsteps | EuroMed gender equality news | Scoop.it
Egyptian Association for Economic and Social Rights. Egyptian Association for Community Participation Enhancement. The Human Rights Association for the Assistance of the Prisoners. Egyptian Center for Women Rights ...
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Gender Equality Data and Statistics | Region

shows complete data about gender equality and statistics across regions (#MENA gender equality & data statistics provided by @WorldBank: http://t.co/M7HT3x8Q #ArabDev...)...
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Arab Women News: Women's Voices on the Arab Spring: Lara Ayoub

Women played an essential role in the Arab Spring that was as important as the role of the men; however, in a region that has always been known to be male dominant, that equivalent role had much more meaning.
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Tunisian women's rights protest

Tunisian women's rights protest | EuroMed gender equality news | Scoop.it
Thousands of Tunisians have protested in the capital against moves by the Islamist-led government which they fear will reduce women's rights. (#Tunisian women's rights protest...what i definitely feared.
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Tunisians demonstrate for women’s rights in new constitution

Tunisians demonstrate for women’s rights in new constitution | EuroMed gender equality news | Scoop.it
Thousands of Tunisians rallied on Monday to protest against what they see as a push by the Islamist-led government for constitutional changes that would degrade women’s status in one of the Arab world’s most liberal nations.
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New Statesman - Will the Tunisian constitution erode the gains of women in the Arab Spring?

New Statesman - Will the Tunisian constitution erode the gains of women in the Arab Spring? | EuroMed gender equality news | Scoop.it
The dignity of gender equality could have a hard time penetrating the written constitution. (Will the Tunisian constitution erode the gains of women in the Arab Spring?
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EIGE’s study on female genital mutilation yields the first EU-wide map on the situation of FGM | EIGE

EIGE’s study on female genital mutilation yields the first EU-wide map on the situation of FGM | EIGE | EuroMed gender equality news | Scoop.it
Fri, 27-07-2012 16:00   Female genital mutilation (FGM) continues to be one of the most brutal and at the same time most tabooed...
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Striving for gender equality in the sciences: leadership and ...

Striving for gender equality in the sciences: leadership and representation. "Research shows that fewer women than men hold leadership positions in the disciplines of science,technology, engineering, and maths.
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CFP: Post Arab-Spring: Structural Changes and New Directions in ...

Evolution in sociopolitical communication in the region. ○ Western adaption to the new communication publics in the MENA region. ○ Media representation of the various groups and factions involved in MENA change.
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First World Atlas of Gender Equality in Education | European Institute ...

This initiative responds to the need of one important question for human rights and sustainable development today. Many girls and women remain deprived of.
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Trust EuroMed Youth Seminar, Canary Island (Spain) | Mladiinfo

The French and Spanish National Agencies (Spanish Institute for Youth - INJUVE) in cooperation with SALTO Euro-Med Resource Centre are organizing the Trust EuroMed Youth Seminar which will take place from 4-9 ...
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