Women

Since 1994 Fondazione Mediterraneo identified women as the main actors to support dialogue and peace: seminars, workshops, appeals, publications, exhibitions and other activities are carried out in order to promote gender equality and human rights.
In particular, the "KIMIYYA" program aims to spread a culture of respect and defense of women's rights, considering their fundamental role as "actresses of dialogue".
Over the last thirty years, the Foundation has carried out over 500 initiatives in favor of women.
Below, just as an example, are the main ones.
All the activities carried out are reported in the GENERAL LIST BY YEAR.
For the entire "KIMIYYA" initiatives click on the link above.

 

FONDAZIONE JOINS WORLD SOCIAL FORUM. MORE THAN 70.000 PARTICIPANTS

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Tunisi | 24 March 2015
Parent Category: Attività (EN) - Category: Women

A delegation of Fondazione Mediterraneo joined the World Social Forum held in Tunis. After Porto Alegre, the Forum took place in Campus Hached El Manar, ten days after the attack to the Museum Bardo. At the slogan “People of the whole world united for freedom, equality, social justice and peace. In support of Tunisian people and all victims of terrorism, against every form of oppression.” more than 70.000 people joined seminars, conferences, workshop and different cultural events which were addressing topics linked to the hanno partecipato a seminari, convegni, workshop ed eventi culturali diversi, con tematiche connesse all’altermondialismo. The Forum ended Saturday 28 March 2015 with the Palestinian people solidarity. The death of migrants in the Mediterranean sea was one of the most discussed topics. The mothers of Tunisians who lose their lives after the 2011 revolution are asking again to Europe to: "Give back our children". There are more than five hundred Tunisian mothers who are in search of their sons whom have become "desaparecidos" during their travel to Italy. The grief of Tunisian mother is partaken also by Middle American ones. At Tunis there was also Marta Sánchez Soler, coordinator of Middle American Migrant Movement which intends to focus the attention to lost people in the world and build a global network between Tunisian, Algerian and Plaza de Mayo mothers at the hopefully and yelling the slogan: “ They took them alive and we want them back alive.” At Tunis Forum mothers partook their grief and struggle towards the institutions which are trying to distort the truth. In the pictures and in the faces which mothers held in their hands there is the will to take identity and give back identity and give human form to the data: these are the efforts of European civil society and Tunisian one which thanks to the Forum had the occasion to become one thing. The aim is to “build a Mediterranean space and make it be a space in which dignity, social justice and rights for all are ensured”.
Particular appreciation was addressed to the efforts made by the Mediterranean Foundation >to restore dignity to migrants died in the sea, in particular the recent implementation of the " Totem of Peace with the urn of Migrants Unknown".

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SOUTHERN NEIGHBOURHOOD CIVIL SOCIETY FORUM (EN)

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Bruxelles | 29 April 2014
Parent Category: Attività (EN) - Category: Women

It was held in Brussels on "Southern Neighbourhood Civil Society Forum" organized by the European Commission in the framework of the Neighbourhood Policy devoted to the countries of the southern shore of the Mediterranean.
The commitment to involve Civil Society in the South Shore in the processes of governance - through a "Structured Dialogue" with the local authorities, regional and the European Union - is the result of the European Commissioner Stefan Fule, present in the work.
The Mediterranean Foundation, represented by the President Michele Capasso and Vice-President Caterina Arcidiacono, stressed the twenty-five years of commitment to the Euro-Mediterranean Dialogue between Civil Society and, in particular, the Euromed Civil Forum II of Naples in 1997, with which the Foundation fact anticipated the "structured Dialogue" - the subject of today's meeting - then bringing together more than 2,000 representatives of civil society, local and national government and the European Union in order to give continuity to the "structured Dialogue".
The Foundation, during the working sessions in Brussels, has proposed experiment in Naples, at the headquarters of the "Maison de la Méditerranée", a "SCHOOL OF EDUCATION TO STRUCTURED DIALOGUE" for representatives of civil society, local institutions and national and the European Union.

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