All around the Mediterranean, period poverty is very real
For this 8th of March, Medfeminiswiya journalists have analyzed the price of sanitary products against the economic reality of the most precarious women in their respective countries.
Period Poverty in Italy
For Italian women in precarious economic conditions, it is becoming increasingly difficult to afford these expenses that come along with their periods, every four or five weeks.
Medfeminiswiya network meeting in Tunis
From 8 to 13 November 2022, the journalists of the Medfeminiswiya network will meet to review their editorial activities and the major issues facing feminists in the Mediterranean region today.
Farewell, Shireen
The assassination of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh by Israeli forces in Jenin while covering an Israeli raid, has sparked an unparalleled wave of outrage, while an immeasurable crowd of...
Ukraine: a war in the heart of Europe
Feminism is at the antipodes of the Putinian virile matrix that it combats, that of the violence in action in all the wars generated by a patriarchal system whose worthy...
Menopause for all: the conception of a successful bet
Perrine Kervran, who lent her voice to introduce a radio documentary series, mocks her own fear of menopause. In a hilarious litany, she lists the conflicting symptoms and injunctions that...
Overview of the Medfeminiswiya dossier: Rural women in the Mediterranean
Medfeminiswiya devotes this series of articles to the great forgotten of the rural world, to these women and girls that are too often deprived of fundamental rights and security, to...
Sexual and reproductive rights in the Mediterranean: an overview of an increasingly worrying situation
As the world celebrates International Safe Abortion Day on 28 September, we are publishing a comprehensive series of articles on women’s sexual and reproductive rights. For the drafting of this...
Interview with Sophie Basso, coordinator, and Selma Hejri, project manager at the RAWSA MENA Network
In Sophie Basso’s calm tone and keen gaze, there is determination in the service of the clarity of pleas raised by the network she has been coordinating. Selma Hajri, who...
RAWSA: Network for Women’s Rights and Access to Safe Abortion in North Africa and the Middle East
Set up in 2019, the RAWSA Network aims at changing mentalities, behaviors and legislations related to sexual and reproductive rights, as well as advocating for legal abortion in most MENA...
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