Gender and trade

Disability is increasingly understood as a component of the international development agenda, producing rights-based approaches to disability-inclusive development. Responding to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006) and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,there has been a global push to expand the inclusion of persons with disability. Specifically, to ensure: universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services, including for family planning and providing information and education; and the eradication of gender-based violence, and; ending all forms of discrimination against women and girls, including the elimination of violence and harmful practices, such as child and early marriage and female genital mutilation. The overall aim of this formative research study was to develop an in-depth understanding of the sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights concerns, gender disparity and gender-based violence, effects of age in order to address challenges related to disabilities in the Arab region.

Women with disabilities face a double discrimination, both in terms of gender and also of their particular disability. This book examines the situation of women with various types of disability, in the Middle Eastern context. It provides a general overview of gender and disability and includes several case studies from the Lebanon, Yemen, and the occupied Palestinian Territories. Each case study features personal histories from disabled women and members of organisations for disabled people, to highlight particular issues concerning gender and disability.

This report comes at a time when global suffering has vastly increased vulnerabilities to trafficking. Extreme poverty is expected to rise for the first time in decades, with the continuing COVID-19 crisis casting a long shadow over our societies and economies. Trafficking in persons remains a hidden crime, with perpetrators operating in the dark corners of the internet and the underbelly of the global economy to entrap victims for sexual exploitation, forced labour, domestic servitude and other forms of exploitation. By bringing visibility to this crime, and shedding light on trafficking patterns and flows, this report can assist governments, parliaments and stakeholders in developing solutions capable of addressing root causes and risk factors, prosecuting offenders, protecting the vulnerable and better supporting victims.

EuroMed Rights’ report, based on desk research and interviews with feminist activists in the region is an attempt to analyse the phenomenon, its impact and forms in different contexts, its extent. It also proposes recommendations to counteract it. This study draws out unfortunate trends and similarities across the region with a particular focus on the situation in Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey.

The report maps the protection responses to persons with disabilities across 15 countries 2 in the Middle East and. North Africa (MENA) region and Turkey