At the end of July, we went to Amman for the closing event of our project on gender-based violence and disability. We applied an intersectional perspective to ensure that disability is also considered in confirmed cases of violence or in cases of women at risk, in an...

The Council of Europe published its first Thematic Evaluation about Italy, a report that evaluates the implementation of some specific aspects of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, known as the...

From the 24th to the 28th of June we were in Addis Ababa for the end of our project WORK, aimed at improving the living conditions of women and young people, in rural and urban areas, through creating new job opportunities and new businesses. In Ethiopia, in fact,...

Last May Aidos’ new Board of Directors elected a new President, Clara Caldera, and re-elected Serena Fiorletta as Vice President. Clara Caldera has been working at Aidos since 2004 and, over the last 20 years, has coordinated several projects, focusing especially on...

The G7 summit in Borgo Egnazia, ended on the 14th of June, was followed carefully by Civil 7 (C7), the platform of Civil Society Organizations aimed at making proposals and requests to protect and promote gender equality, human rights, environmental protection, social...

The End FGM European Network, of which Aidos is part of, developed a six-point manifesto for the upcoming European elections, requesting candidates from EU Member States to support efforts to eliminate Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and gender-based violence. The...

On the 14th and 15th of May, the Civil7 (C7) summit took place in Rome at FAO headquarters during the Italian G7 Presidency. Aidos attended the event and organized the panel “The right to Bodily autonomy: a right for achieving gender equality” with the following...

#AWorldWhere is a campaign aiming to drive Europe’s global commitments on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), including family planning (FP), to meet Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) targets, advance gender equality, and strengthen health systems. We...

The 57th Commission on Population and Development (CPD) began this week. It will assess the implementation of the Programme of Action defined during the International Conference on Population and Development, held in Cairo in 1994, and its contribution to the...

Civil7 organizations call on G7 governments to promote systemic, transformative and generative changes in international politics through the multilateral system. Rome, April 19, 2024 – The meeting of Foreign Ministers of G7 countries, hosted by Italy in the year of...

The sixty-eighth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), the main UN body dedicated to women's rights and gender equality, took place in New York from March 11 to 22. This year, the focus of the Commission's work was on accelerating the achievement of...

AIDOS held a workshop on how to communicate about gender violence aimed at 14 young activists in Beni Mellal, Morocco, from the 4th to the 8th of February. The workshop, part of AICHA project activities, took place in the Sultan Moulay Slimane University and was led...

On Valentine's Day 2024, EPF - European Parliamentary Forum launches the seventh edition of the Atlas of contraceptive policies in Europe. Aidos has supported the initiative for a while and has shared this important tool which outlines very clearly the European and...

The new Report from Countdown2030, a consortium of 15 European organizations committed to the advancement of health and sexual and reproductive rights that Aidos is part of, shows that in 2022 14 European donors have prioritized investments in this sector. While the...

We are implementing a project to address gender based violence and disability in Jordan, specifically in the Governorates of Amman and Mafraq. The objective is ambitious, as it aims to concretely improve the quality of life of women and girls at risk and/or survivors...

Aidos organized a workshop in Addis Ababa, from the 16th to 20th of October 2023, to involve men and boys in the elimination of the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM), through a gender transformative approach. The latter is a fundamental concept and practice...