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Women's Rights & Gender

Women's Rights are Human Rights

Promotion of democracy and human rights cannot be dissociated from the question of women’s rights. There is no democracy if women are not allowed to take part in public life on equal terms with men.
Women’s rights can not advance if the human rights discourse does not embrace men and women equally, and if fifty percent of a population is systematically marginalized from equal participation in society’s decision-making processes.

Working Group

Promotion of women’s rights will remain limited as long as the underlying discrimination against women remains unchallenged including within civil society. Women’s rights issues tend to be discussed only by women, and women’s networks live separate lives from generalist human rights networks.
So there is a need to go beyond isolated and limited women’s initiatives and to apply a holistic approach addressing all forms and all levels of discrimination against women. One way of addressing this is through Gender Mainstreaming.
The EMHRN works to promote gender mainstreaming among human rights NGOs and civil society groups through its Gender Working Group.

Themes

Widespread Discrimination against Women
A large number of reports over the years have provided ample evidence of discrimination and violence against women in the EuroMed region, among these in particular:
Vibrant Civil Society
Women’s rights groups have emerged as vibrant, innovate and efficient civil society groups in terms of networking, advocacy and public awareness raising.




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