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Mediterranean initiative to promote gender equality
4-3-2020
"The Union for the Mediterranean" (UFM) launched earlier this week a new regional mechanism for gender equality in the Mediterranean region. The aim of this initiative is to monitor progress made in promoting women’s rights and rectify inequality, as well as present recommendations to policy makers to this effect. It also seeks to ensure that the Union’s gender-equality and women empowerment initiatives and undertakings benefit women in around 20 Euro-Mediterranean countries. On this new mechanism, UFM deputy secretary general, Marisa Farrugia, explained that the follow-up mechanism is specifically designed to raise regional awareness on challenges posed by gender gaps and the opportunities arising from measures taken to reduce it. Recalling, that among projects backed by the UFM, is ‘Skills for Success’. The latter is intended to support 450 unemployed or economically deprived young women and girls to acquire the tools, knowledge and skills needed to access local labor markets in each of Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon. (NNA, March 3, 2020)
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