On the occasion of International Women’s Day 2013, the Middle East Program at the Wilson Center invited a cross-section of women activists, politicians, academics, and entrepreneurs to give us their views on the challenge’s women face to their security. 42 women from 20 countries including the United States, Malaysia, Indonesia, and countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region shared with us their concerns, disappointments, and hopes for women.
This volume gathers 15 selected papers that were presented in the seventh edition of the Mediterranean Forum which was held in Fez, Morocco on May 29, 30 and 31 in partnership between Isis Center for Women and Development and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung – Rabat. The volume contains papers from Jordan, Israel, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, The USA and Germany. The central aim of the book is to document and unveil the new types of violence that women are subject to across the Middle East and North Africa region, link them to the familiar types, understand their social, economic and political ramifications, dig out their surface and deeper underpinnings especially in relation to Jihadism, propose strategies to stop them, and seek short- and long- term policies that would implement these strategies. The overarching aim of the book is to highlight the relevance of the topics tackled by authors who belong to the worlds of academia, politics and activism for the sensitive, tantalizing, and boarder issues such women’s economic and political empowerment, the reform of education, the reform of the religious field, masculinity, the enhancement of an inclusive democracy in the region, the separation of religion from politics, the role of the media, and the heterogeneous nature of political Islam. As Islam is at the same time an integral part of men’s and women’s everyday life and a ruling tool at all levels, the papers in this book seek to integrate it as part of the solution not the problem.
The 2018 UNODC Global Report on Trafficking in Persons is the fourth of its kind mandated by the General Assembly through the 2010 United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons. It covers 142 countries and provides an overview of patterns and flows of trafficking in persons at global, regional and national levels, based primarily on trafficking cases detected between 2014 and 2016. As UNODC has been systematically collecting data on trafficking in persons for more than a decade, trend information is presented for a broad range of indicators.
