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Verona exhibition of "Un ambiente ostile: vita dei Rohingya" was organised by by Le Fate Onlus, La Sobilla Associazione Culturale, One Bridge to Idomeni, RedLab and the Rohingya Photography Exhibition. The inauguration took place on 24th November. The honoured guest speaker was Dr Ambia Parveen, Chairperson of European Rohingya Council (ERC).  Professor Francesco Della Puppa of Ca' Foscari University of Venice opened the inauguration. Other speakers included Oreste Veronesi from La Sobilla and Pietro Albi from One Bridge to Idomeni and from RedLab. Nineteen Rohingya photographers took part in the exhibition. In alphabetical order, they are: Anonymous (from Bhasan Char), Yassin Abdumonab, Zahangir [...]

On December 6, Forum Femmes Méditerranée organized a meeting both on-site and online which counted with 23 participants. This meeting had the merit of being held both face-to-face and by videoconference in a central location in Paris, near the Senate, in the premises of the Cité Audacieuse, a school made available to the Women's Foundation by the Paris City Hall. It is a local shared by many Parisian and national feminist associations. We managed to get this initiative co-organised by the French Coordination of the European Women's Lobby, which represents about 80 associations in France and is the French branch of [...]

The event "Community energies: the place of the possible" took place in September 10 in Verona (Italy). It involved 52 participants. The objective of the world café was to create an informal moment of discussion between realities, associations, people living in the area and institutions on how to make a space and a neighborhood alive, participatory and inclusive so that it becomes a place in which to create a multucultural network, in which migrants, asylum seekers and in particular migrant women can feel an inclusive and active part of a community. The world café methodology made possible a dynamic discussion and [...]

More than 30 women participated on Saturday December 3rd at the Maison de quartier st Geneviève in the 10th district of Marseille to the meeting organized by the Forum Femmes Méditerranée in collaboration with the association Atouts Femmes. It was about presenting the recommendations elaborated by the partners of the European project FORUM on the intercultural dialogue and the civic participation against the stigmatization of the migrants and the refugees. We had chosen to intersperse the more political background issues with poems and stories of exiled women. Esther Fouchier presented the context of this European project led by the Centro de [...]

Forum Femmes Méditerranée celebrated during the last weekend of November in Toulouse an event in relation to the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. The activities celebrated throughout these days were: On Thursday, there wes a meal-debate "Women victims of violence". Every Thursday for the past 30 years, the association partage has organized a meal for the inhabitants of the Toulouse "Grand Mirail" district with food donated by the food bank. After the meal a debate takes place on a different theme, this day it was about the fight against violence against women. Esther Fouchier recalled the continuum of [...]

We are launching #NoBorderstoWomenRights, a campaign developed in the frames of FORUM Project. This campaign is going to do advocacy at two levels: At local level, in which each Partner is going to celebrate different events and activities, as well as, an act of presentation of results of the Project. At European level, in which the Policy Brief For an Equal Europe for all: Migrant Women Rights are Human Rights is going to be delivered to policymakers of de European Union. This document of demands and recommendations is the result of the identification by organizations made up, or engaged to, migrant [...]