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New
EuroMed Gender Programme – Newsletter |
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05
February 2009 |
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The
new programme ‘Enhancing Equality between Men and Women in the Euromed
region’ (2008-2011) has published the first edition of its trilingual
newsletter ‘Gender Dynamics’. The
Programme, launched through the new ENPI South Regional Programme, builds
upon the achievements of the Euromed Programme, the Role of Women in Economic
Life (RWEL), which came to an end in January 2009. The
newsletter introduces the Programme, which has a budget of €3,342,000 and was
launched through an international tender won by a consortium of three
partners from the EuroMed Region. It outlines its three main objectives as
the full implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination Against Women, the strengthening of strategies on fighting
gender-based violence against women, and support to the follow-up of the 2006
Istanbul Conference held on ‘Strengthening the role of women in society.’ The
main feature of the newsletter is an interview with Carla Montesi, Head of
Unit in charge of Regional Programmes and Neighborhood at EuropeAid, in which
she outlines the thinking behind the programme. She expresses her optimism
that “a constructive partnership will lead to full recognition of the human
rights of women and the importance of their integration into development on
equal footing to men”, and underlines “the close relationship between
democracy, development and equality between men and women”. |
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