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The Integration of Women’s Rights from the MENA into the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership
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Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Syria and Tunisia (by Rabéa Nasiri and Isis Nusair). This report provides a context for understanding the dynamics that hinder and promote women’s rights in the Middle East and North Africa and within the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership. It reviews the situation in nine partner countries.
In addition, the report presents a number of recommendations that highlight how the EU and Partner States can better address women’s rights in the framework of the EMP. They stress the need for fighting all forms of discrimination against women within the framework of human rights and democratisation, the lifting of reservations to the CEDAW, as well as ceasing to treat women’s rights as primarily an issue of religious norms and cultural traditions. The report concludes that gender mainstreaming should be integrated into all EU and EMP policies and programmes, while at the same time affirmative action and specific programmes targeted at women should be put in place.
Also available in French and Arabic. |
