Globally, women make up 40% of the agricultural labor force, both formal and informal, in unpaid and paid work in fields and on farms. Yet, women are also the largest unpaid care workforce, women are less likely to own land – with only 13% of agricultural landowners globally being women1 – and more likely toإقرأ المزيد
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·نظّم الاتحاد من أجل المتوسط (UfM)، بالشراكة مع الجمهورية البرتغالية، الدورة الرابعة من المؤتمر الإقليمي حول تمكين المرأة في المنطقة الأورومتوسطية.
·بالإضافة إلى رئيسة مالطا، ماري-لويز كوليرو بريكا، حضر المؤتمر، الذي يصادف الذكرى السنوية العاشرة لإنشاء الاتحاد من أجل المتوسط، أكثر من ٣٠٠ مشارك من بينهم وزراء، وخبراء دوليون وعناصر بارزة في المجتمع المدني والقطاع الخاص.
·ناقش المشاركون الإنجازات الأخيرة، والتحديات الأكثر إلحاحاً التي تنتظرهم، وكيف يعمل اتحاد المتوسط من أجل التصدي لها.
11 October 2018, Lisbon. The committee will hold its meeting and the agenda is currently being elaborated. More on the 2018 edition of the Women4Mediterranean conference With financial support fromإقرأ المزيد
10-11 October, Lisbon. The high level Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) Women4Mediterranean conferences constitute the major regional platform to discuss, exchange experiences and promote women’s participation in the public, economic and civil life for bringing solutions to regional challenges. They create impact by gathering the most relevant stakeholders and leaders from the Euro-Mediterranean region –إقرأ المزيد
9-11 October 2018, Lisbon. After the success of last year’s youth forum co-organized by Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung’s and UfM, the Euro-Mediterranean Youth Forum 2018 aims at providing young participants, coming from the Euro-Mediterranean countries, with a platform to present and discuss their perceptions and ideas, innovative practices and experiences with Digital Transformation. The overall objective of the forum is toإقرأ المزيد
Building inclusive societies in the Mediterranean: three generations of WoMED share their experience Organised in partnership with: On October 9, 2018, as part of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) Conference side events, the WoMED participants will gather all together in Lisboa to share their respective leading experience in their home country. WoMED – Womenإقرأ المزيد
9 – 11 October 2018, Lisbon. Organized in partnership with UNIDO, The Forum will be the business window of the Conference. The 2018 edition aims at building skills, connecting and empowering female entrepreneurs to start, grow and sustain their enterprises in a competitive environment that will lead towards a direct impact on the economy as wellإقرأ المزيد
9 October 2018, Lisbon. The UfM dialogue on women empowerment, between governments and the concerned stakeholders, has started in 2015 with the objective to review countries and stakeholders’ engagements in the Euro-Mediterranean and to provide recommendations for the policy makers to advance gender equality agenda in the region. “Women Economic Participation”, “Combating violence against women” and “the roleإقرأ المزيد
The positive contribution of women to economic growth, poverty reduction and societal well-being has been well documented in many studies. In the Euro-Mediterranean region, significant progress has been made in the region in relation to the rights of women and girls, and overall, gender issues have gained significant momentum. Yet, the region continues to faceإقرأ المزيد
20 September 2018, Bari, Italy. The International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM), together with the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM), the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Centre for Mediterranean Integration (CMI) with the technical collaboration of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Agreenium (the French consortium for research and educationإقرأ المزيد
