EuroMed Feminist Initiative join our voices to those demanding an immediate return to international law, the only path to finally ending the ongoing carnage and the forced displacement of tens of thousands of Palestinians.

Since October 7, 2023, the Israeli army has been killing without restraint women, children, old people, sick people, entire families, UNRWA personnel, journalists and humanitarian personnel. The massacre of the Palestinian people continues inexorably despite the decisions of the International Court of Justice and renewed and insistent calls of the United Nations (UN) for an immediate and permanent ceasefire.

In view of the Brussels VIII Conference on “Supporting the future of Syria and the region”, Syria Gender Advocacy Group (GAG), Musawa and EuroMed Feminist Initiative (EFI) organised a side- event on the 29th of April 2024 on “Ensuring mechanisms to combat violence against women and girls in Syria during the early recovery phase”.

The date of 8M they intend to empty it of its initial content, as a date of vindication and struggle for women's rights. They want to displace the demands for others outside the Feminist Agenda seeking to blur the meager achievements obtained and blur them in false inclusivity. But the attacks also come from the declarations and proclamations of political forces bent on returning us to the private sphere, removing us from public spaces, silencing our voices, taking us back to times we thought we had forgotten.

Latest statement of the Turkish platform EŞIK.

On the day marking the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), whose theme for the 2023 is “Freedom, Equality and Justice for All”, EuroMed Feminist Initiative addresses the UNSG and the president of the UNSC with the hope they will manage to impose urgently a ceasefire in Gaza, to stop the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian population.

Considering the current European Union (EU) trialogue negotiations regarding the proposal on the directive on combatting violence against women and domestic violence, EuroMed Feminist Initiative (EFI) defends a strong directive ensuring protection of women and urges for rape to be included in this directive.

25th November: International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

This is the 3rd statement of EuroMed Feminist Initiative on the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

EuroMed Feminist Initiative issues its second statement on the massacre in Gaza.

Since the creation of EuroMed Feminist Initiative (EFI), twenty years ago, as a policy platform, EFI has advocated for the implementation of the United Nations Security Council Resolutions on Palestine, for a political solution end the occupation and establishing of an independent Palestine State within the 1967 borders, with full sovereignty and East Jerusalem as its capital, and the right of the Palestinians to return to their home land, as a necessary step and a precondition for a comprehensive and sustainable peace.

To mark the International Day of Peace, the EuroMed Feminist Initiative (EFI) and its partners are launching the project ‘Strengthening Feminist Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) working in the implementation of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda in Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine’, funded by the Agence Française de Développement.

Pay gaps between women and men represent one of today’s greatest social injustice rooted in longstanding disparities in labour markets. It’s time to close this type of discrimination.

Solidarity with Morocco and the Moroccan people following the earthquake that struck part of the country. EuroMed Feminist Initiative expresses its condolences to the families of the victims and their loved ones.

In view of the Brussels VII Conference on “Supporting the future of Syria and the region”, Syria Gender Advocacy Group (GAG) and EuroMed Feminist Initiative (EFI) organised a side-event on 9th of June 2023 on “The role of Syrian #Women’s #Rights Organisations in the Future of #Syria and the Region” and alert the international community on the precarious situation of #women and girls as they continue to bear the brunt of the protracted Syrian crisis.

EuroMed Feminist Initiative (EFI) welcomes the massive vote of the European Parliament’s members, on 10 May, accession to the Istanbul Convention, which recognises violence against women as a violation of human rights and a form of discrimination for the European Union’s against women. Said Lilian Halls-French, EFI Co-President: “Today is an important day for the fight against violence against women. After years of struggle, it is a step closer to EU ratification of an important tool addressing violence against women”.

In view of the Donor’s Conference for the people of Syria and Türkiye affected by the earthquake, due to take place on 20th March 2023 in Brussels, Syria Gender Advocacy Group and EuroMed Feminist Initiative ask the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the European Union and the European Commission to ensure a gender-sensitive aid, responsive to the needs of women and girls.

On this International Women's Day, EuroMed Feminist Initiative expresses its deepest concern about the regression of women's rights, the explosion of violence against women and girls (VAWG), the threats to women's organisations and calls upon for women's rights to be made a political priority.

It is with great sadness that we have just learned of the death of Doctor Basma Kodmani a well-known Syrian researcher and activist for a democratic future of her country.

Allowing humanitarian aid and relief to all and across all borders is a must to save lives.