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Online Policy Dialogue Combating VAWG and Strengthening Women’s Rights in the context of the Covid-19

RDFL November 27, 2020
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EuroMed Feminist Initiative (EFI) has followed up on the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM)
Ministerial Process on strengthening the role of women in society as a major tool to promote
gender equality in the whole Euro-Med region since the first ministerial conference in Istanbul
2006. Responding to the Ministerial Declaration from the last 4th UfM Ministerial Conference on
Women´s Rights (27 November 2017, Cairo), EuroMed Feminist Initiative with a consortium of nine
member women’s rights organizations in Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine and
Tunisia initiated in 2019 a Regional campaign on Zero Tolerance for Violence Against Women and
Girls (VAWG), funded by the European Union (EU). (Campaign website www.ostik.org).
As part of the campaign that The Lebanese Women Democratic Gathering- RDFL is a part of it, a series of national and regional policy dialogues are taking place in the
Southern Mediterranean, providing a common platform to discuss VAWG and how to tackle it. The
aim of these dialogues is to follow up on and support the implementation of the action points of
the 4th UfM Ministerial Declaration.
The regional policy dialogue on Combating Violence Against Women and Girls and Strengthening
Women’s Rights During the Covid-19 Pandemic was organised in collaboration with the Minister
of Social Development (MoSD) in Jordan. Initially scheduled to take place in March 2020, it was
postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic and took place on September 21, 2020 using an online
platform. REPORT Online Policy Dialogue Combating Violence Against Women and Girls and Strengthening Women’s Rights in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic:

Click the below links for the full report  in both languages English and French

Report – Policy Dialogue – Combating VAWG and Strengthening WR in the context of Covid 19 pandemic – En

Report – Policy Dialogue – Combating VAWG and Strengthening WR in the context of Covid 19 pandemic – Fr

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The Lebanese Democratic Women’s Gathering is a secular non-governmental women organization which works with the democratic forces and represents a part of the advocacy secular democratic women’s movement, on the basis of international pacts and treaties, as well as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Universal Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women, in order to promote women’s status and participation and empower them, aiming at achieving full equality between both sexes.