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On September 15, 2025, the vessels of the Global Sumud Flotilla left Tunisia to offer support to Gaza and break the two-year humanitarian and maritime blockade. This report highlights women’s commitments in organizing, fundraising, and providing medical and legal support, as well as the personal experiences and sacrifices made by those who have taken part in this mobilization.

Across Europe, the surrogacy industry is made up of an extensive network of mediation agencies, law firms, fertility clinics, and surrogacy centers operating in close coordination. In this final article of a three-part series, Patricia Simon publishes a focus on Spain. In that country, the paradoxical administrative permissiveness surrounding surrogacy has consolidated a network of agencies working to legalize the phenomenon.

Across Europe, the surrogacy industry is made up of an extensive network of mediation agencies, law firms, fertility clinics, and surrogacy centers operating in close coordination. This three-part series focus on Athens and Thessaloniki in Greece. Behind the legal façade of the surrogacy network, there lies a system thriving on inequality and blurred ethics. Follow the rest of the series for further reading on the research conducted in Spain.

Across Europe, the surrogacy industry is made up of an extensive network of mediation agencies, law firms, fertility clinics, and surrogacy centers operating in close coordination. This three-part article series focuses on the terrible abuses in the market. Follow the rest of the series for further reading on the cases of Greece and Spain.

On this day of struggle for the rights of women and gender minorities, the Marseille feminist inter-organization confirmed its intersectional ambition and called for unity against the rise of fascism and the far right, while never forgetting the feminist struggles on the other side of the Mediterranean. A report.

Morocco’s family law code, known as Moudawana, underwent its third historic reform on December 24. While it is another step forward for women’s rights, it remains divisive. A look at the tensions and social change in Morocco.

For the past 10 years, the Bab el-Hikayat theater in Egypt, directed by Horia el-Dkak, has been offering workshops in storytelling. Each session ends with a public performance. The majority of participants are women, who find the art of the spoken word to be of great individual and collective benefit. A Medfeminiswiya report.

Italy has long been an attractive destination for people seeking better job opportunities, but not everyone comes just for a paycheck—some move for love, education, or other opportunities that Italy offers. Below, we follow three women in their reasons for choosing Italy to make their new home.

Despite political and social challenges, female Tunisian visual artists, actresses, and dancers are transforming the street into a space for creativity and freedom.

More than one million people have been displaced in Lebanon, having left their homes to seek safety amid the escalation of military tensions and Israeli threats, especially after the assassination of Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah in the heart of Dahye, the southern suburbs of Beirut. This momentous event spread more terror and anxiety among the population given that it came along with tense Israeli threats to continue bombing more targets.