Southern Women, Northern Women, Dare to Succeed - Regional Programme Political Dialogue and regional Integration in the Southern Mediterranean
Event Reports
Women sharing their success stories, f.l.t.r.: Juana Borrego Izquierdo, President of Femur; Zohra Benlakhdar, Researcher; Ikbal Gharbi, Vice-president and founding member of the Tunisian League for the Defense of Freedom of Artistic and Scientific creation; Keltoum Kennou, Magistrate candidate during 2014 presidential elections; Dilara Hakan, Scholar at the University of Istanbul and member of the European movement in Turkey
Dorothea Maisch, Entrepreneur, Representative of a network of women entrepreneurs, during her speech
Young women from different regions of Tunisia presented their business ideas during the conference
One of the panels discussed the role of the media in fostering economic participation of women
One of the young women presents the obstacles she faced on her way to set up her business
The Regional Office South Mediterranean of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung supported the association Mediterravenir in organizing a two-day conference titled “Southern Women, Northern Women - Dare to Succeed” from 14 to 15 November in Tunis. The conference was organized under the high patronage of His Excellency the President of the Republic and with the support of the Tunisian Ministry of Women, Family and Children. The aim of the conference was to highlight the economic role of women in marginalized areas and to create a dialogue between the Southern and Northern coasts of the Mediterranean on this topic.
