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Links to selected reference documents for the Round Table organised by the Conference of INGOs of the Council of Europe on 23 January 2013 on “Supporting the Wishes, Demands and Priorities of Women in the Arab World”

Council of Europe

- Factsheet: The Council of Europe and Gender Equality http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/standardsetting/equality/02factsheets/Gender%20Equality%20Fact%20Sheet%20FINAL%2021%209%202012%20hyperlinks.pdf
- Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (CETS No. 197)
- Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (Istanbul Convention)

- Resolution 1873(2012) on Equality between women and men: a condition for the success of the Arab Spring
- Recommendation 1996(2012) on Equality between women and men: a condition for the success of the Arab Spring

- Declaration CONF/PLE(2011)DEC1 on the Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia
- Declaration CONF/PLE(2011)DEC2 on Leveraging Women’s Equal Participation during and after Conflicts and Revolutions from the onset”
- Resolution (CONF/PLE(2012)RES2) on "Gender equality perspectives in political and democratic processes in the MENA Region (Middle East and Northern Africa)"
- Recommendation (CONF/PLE(2012)REC4) on "Gender equality perspectives in political and democratic processes in the MENA Region (Middle East and Northern Africa)"
- Resolution (CONF/DEM(2012)RES1) on Gender Equality - A condition for success of the Arab Spring
- Recommendation (CONF/DEM(2012)REC1) on Gender Equality - A condition for success of the Arab Spring

- Information about the North-South Process for the Empowerment of Women;
- Euro-Med Women Network of the North-South Centre and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe;
- Conclusions of the Rome Conference on "Women as Agents of Change in the South of the Mediterranean Region", 24-25 October in Rome and its Political Conclusions;
- Conclusions of the National Workshop held in Morocco on "the Gender Approach in the Development of Women in the Mediterranean", July 7 in Tetouan (Morocco) and its “L´Appel de Tétouan”;
- Conclusions of the Istanbul Conference on “The Social and Political Empowerment of Women based on Women’s Stories”, 4-6 November in Istanbul;
- The Lisbon Forum 2012 and its workshop on “The Centrality of Women´s rights in the transition to democracy”, 3-4 December 2012, Lisbon (Portugal);

INGOs

- International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH): Women and the Arab Spring: Taking their place?, Paris, 2012
- International Alliance of Women: Wishes, Demands and Priorities of National and Regional Women’s Organisations in the MENA Region”, 2013