FORUM News

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Last October, the volunteers/activists training course Anti-racist Activism and for racialised people's rights: history, strategies and design of campaigns against racism took place in Granada in 6 intensive sessions. We counted on the knowledge of Paula Guerra, Pastora Filigrana, Silvina Monteros, Carolina Escobar, Chaimaa Boukharsa and Charles Williams Ndeye,  who gave us their point of view about antiracism, antigypsysm,  based on their experiences and daily work. Then we had three [...]

On September 11th, from 10am to 6 pm on the Old Port in Marseille, the FFM held a stand during VIVACITY, the festival of Marseille associations. They had the opportunity to introduce Forum project and contact with volunteers to pursue their commitment to work on the citizenship of migrants and against the stigmatization of migrants.

The death of George Floyd on 25th May 2020 generated discussions and debate on racism and the important of tackling racism at all levels of the society. One of the reasons why AkiDwA was founded in 2001 was a result of racism and discrimination migrant women were experiencing at the time, this area of work remains key and very important into ensuring women, families and society in general are involved [...]

The event took place in Brussels (Belgium) on the 23rd of June 2022 from 2pm to 5pm CET. We had a total of 111 participants divided in-person and online. It consisted in a conference and a roundtable in which expert speakers, European decision markers, lawyers and civil society representatives will highlight the various barriers undocumented migrant women face in regards to access to rights and justice in Europe, in Law [...]

The University of Granada has organized during March and July a cycle of sessions in which 24 migrant women had the opportunity to assist and nourished their inner self and their activisms. This cycle of sessions called "Círculo de Saberes" consisted of three sessions, in which the UGR counted with three expert and admirable women: In the first one, Lorena Cabnal talked about the collective selfcare and healing process with [...]

The training session held in Paris on June 16 highlighted the practical and psychological impediments migrant women face to obtain proper enforcement of their rights enshrined   in French positive law in accordance with multiple international conventions and European treaties. Proposals for improvement were discussed, stressing the importance of psychological support and the additional changes needed to improve both adequate access to their rights and modify representations as all women [...]

This activity took place in Marseille, the day 14th May at the Toursky Theatre. It consisted of, firstly, a literary coffee, in which Naide Hedroug, clinical psychologist, Aicha Soudani, Habiba Djeridane, administrators at FFM and Yasmine Mouloud, writer, animated this intercultural dialogue café. 17 people took part in this moment rich in exchange. To address the theme of this meeting, we have chosen to focus on the writings of three [...]

The Intercultural Dialogue café "Memories of Exile" started at 2pm on 10th March. The, at 3pm there were parallel creativity workshops with the making of organic cosmetics, jewellerly, ceramics, led by the "Ceramist and Artists of Lilith" and a writing workshop led by Esther Fouchier, founder of FFM. The event closed with a song by Yasmine Mouloud, author-composer-performer, who interpreted pieces of love and peace, in a soft and lively [...]

March 30 was the last day of the Online Course "Human Trafficking and Exploitation of Women in Migratory Context", organised by CICODE of the UGR in the frames of FORUM project. There were more than 40 attendees, who were engaged and with very active participation. During this Course, along 6 sessions, we could acquire deeper knowledge about this phenomenom, thanks to Amaranta Foundation, NGO especialized in assistance and care of [...]

This event, which took place in Verona, Italy, on October 13th, involved 29 participants from that city and one from Belgium. The objective of the conference was to give a national panoramic of extremism and populism and then discuss and confront each other on their impact and evolution in Verona. The guests were Malora Rivista, digital platform built by journalists trying to build a new narrative and InfoSpazio 161, a [...]

The online course organised by CICODE during the month of November, involved talks and discussions with  various partners and speakers working on issues of migration policies and current realities of the migrant situation in the Spanish state, and the context that this has for the European Union. The course was divided into 6 sessions and 2 accompanying events. The First: Governance and Political Migration and Asylum in the EU and [...]

On Tuesday 23rd of November, the book launch of Migraciones y población africana en España. Historias, relatos y prácticas de resistencia (Migrations and the African Population in Spain.  Histories, stories and the resistance practices), coordinated by José Manuel Maroto Blanco and Rosalía López Fernández was presented with the participation of more than 40 attendees. The presentation consisted of two parts, the first in which José Manuel and Rosalía discussed the development of the [...]

On October 27th, 2021, the discussion group "Taking action against human trafficking: Approaches and Support Processes for Survivors and Victims",  organised by CEIM and Mujeres en Zona de Conflicto (MZC) took place in Sevilla, counting on 30 participants from different fields directly involved in the attention and work with migrant women at risk of sexual and labour exploitation and potential victims of human trafficking. Firstly, they mapped the situation in [...]

On Wednesday 13 October, the Webinar Anti-human rights policies and hate speech, organised by the Centre of Studies and Research Women (CEIM), was celebrated, with the participation of  more than 30 attendees. The Webinar was divided into two sections. In the first, two studies, in which migrant women played a leading role, were submitted: - “Mapeo de actores y repertorios de odio: El género y la migración en el epicentro [...]

On Friday 1st October 2021, the Mediterranean Women's Forum organised a day dedicated to Rights of Migrant Women in the European Union.  This day consisted of a training session on access to migrant women's rights, followed in the afternoon by an intercultural dialogue café, a moment of musical exchange, and ended with the National Meeting of Migrant Women's Associations, in order to pool our resources and skills to make migrant [...]

On October 6th and 7th, the Center for Development Cooperation Initiatives (University of Granada) organized the Conference "Beyond the Borders: Migrant Women and Political Participation". This activity took place in Granada and they were also broadcasted on Zoom, relying on more than 100 participants. Throughout the Conference, various round tables brought together migrant women grassroots organizations and NGOs from all over Spain. They analyzed the situation of migrant women [...]