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Euromed Feminist Initiative IFE-EFI
Euromed Feminist Initiative EFI is a policy network that encompasses women’s rights organizations from the two shores of the Mediterranean and advocates for gender equality and women’s rights as inseparable from democracy building and citizenship, for political solutions to all conflicts, and for the right of peoples to self-determination.
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Lebanon - Minister of Interior and Municipalities Raya El Hassan meets with EuroMed Feminist initiative and their partners
Lebanon 18 June 2018 – Her Excellency, Minister of Interior and Municipalities Raya El Hassan met the delegation composed of EuroMed Feminist Initiative (EFI), the Office of the Ministry of State for Economic Empowerment of Women and Youth (EEWAY) and the European Union Delegation to the Republic of Lebanon. The delegation included the Executive Director of EFI, Boriana Jonnson, the Country Manager for EFI in Lebanon, Laura El Khoury, the International consultant to the National Gender Observatory, Birgitta Holst Alani, the State Counselor for EEWAY, Maya El Khoury and the Project Manager of the EU Delegation in Lebanon, Roula Abbas.
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Regional Conference - Launching of the Regional Campaign on Zero Tolerance for Violence Against Women and Girls, May 2019, Amman
The Regional Campaign on Zero Tolerance for Violence Against Women and Girls was launched on 2-3 May 2019 in Amman, Jordan in the frame of the project “Combating Violence against Women in the Southern Mediterranean Region”, funded by the EU. The launching conference gathered about 140 participants from 14 countries in the Euro-Med region. The participants represented ministries, institutions, political parties, CSOs and CBOs. They also included members of parliaments, gender, and legal experts and activists, journalists and researchers.
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Meeting between the Ministry of Social Affairs and the EuroMed Feminist Initiative in Lebanon
On March 5, 2019, Minister of Social Affairs, H.E. Richard Kouyoumjian met with a delegation from EuroMed Feminist Initiative, represented by Executive Director Boriana Jonsson, accompanied by EU MADAD Country Manager Laura El-Khoury and National Gender Observatory Consultant in Lebanon Birgitta Holst Alani. During the meeting, H.E. Richard Kouyoumjian introduced the two years´ multi-country project “Strengthening access to protection, participation and services for women refugees, Internally Displaced People” IDPs” and host communities in Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq” funded by the European Union Regional Trust Fund in Response to the Syrian Crisis, the EU 'MADAD' Fund.
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International Conference "Electoral Systems and Gender Equality in Democratic Transitions", Feb 2018, Geneva
The International conference "Electoral Systems and Gender Equality in Democratic Transitions" was organized by the Coalition of Syrian Women for Democracy and EuroMed Feminist Initiative on the 27 -28th February 2018 at the Centre International de Conférences de Genève (CICG), Switzerland. The conference took place in the frame of the program “Towards Sustainable Peace and Democracy in Syria Through Strengthening Civil Society and Women’s Rights” funded by Sweden.
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Meeting of the Research Policy Group of the National Gender Observatory in Lebanon, March 2019
The Research Policy Group of the National Gender Observatory in Lebanon held its first meeting on 7 March 2019 at the Office of the Minister of State for Economic Empowerment of Women and Youth. The National Gender Observatory is supported by the European Union Regional Trust Fund in Response to the Syrian Crisis, the EU “MADAD”, in the framework of the multi-country gender program “Strengthening access to protection, participation and services for women refugees, Internally Displaced People (IDPs) and host communities”.
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