European Network of Migrant Women
FULFIL PROJECT
NOVEMBER 2022
European Network of Migrant Women is starting FULFIL, a new project funded by the CERV Fund of the European Union, in partnership with Association Olympe in France, Iroko Onlus in Italy and Association against Femicide in Portugal, as well as two legal firms – Artemis in France and Parolin Law firm in Italy – as well as the European Women’s Lawyers Association (EWLA).
This project will focus on capacity-building of legal professionals in the area of strategic litigation on the cases of breaches of fundamental rights of migrant women in Europe, capacity-building of migrant women and civil society organisations (CSOs) working with them on legal cases, as well as building a case-law database.
PROJECT UPDATES
PARTNER MEETING AND PUBLIC EVENT IN LISBON
NOVEMBER 2023
ON 15 December 2023, the partners of FULFIL convened in Lisbon for a mid-term transnational partner meeting, to discuss the progress of the project and prepare for the training of legal professionals that will take place in months January-August 2023 in Italy, France and Portugal, as well as online. Coinciding with the partner meeting the FULFIL partnership also co-organised a public event hosted by the Portuguese Association against Femicide.
BREAKING THE SILENCE: VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AS TORTURE
About the Event
It has taken many years to include women’s experiences of violence in work against torture and to think of torture as an appropriate term for women’s experiences of violence. In recent years there has been progress on both fronts. How does thinking about connections between torture (and its legal regulation) strengthen our work on violence against women? What have been the main developments at the European Court of Human Rights in conceptualizing several forms of violence against women as torture?
AGENDA
- 09:30 – 09:40 – Word of welcome by Mariana Cunha, President of the Portuguese Association against Femicide
- 9:40 – 10:00 – Introduction to the FULFIL project by ENoMW and partners
- 10:00 – 11:00 – ‘Women Unsilenced: Our Refusal to Let Torturer-Traffickers Win’, by Jeanne Sarson and Linda McDonald
- 11:00 – 11:15 – Coffee-break
- 11:15 – 11:45 – Presentation of the book ‘Human Rights of Women’ – recent ECtHR’s jurisprudence in conceptualizing rape, domestic violence, FGM, and trafficking as torture by Margarida Medina Martins, Vice-President of AMCV and Mariana Cunha, President of the Portuguese Association against Femicide
- 11:45 – 12:45 – Trauma and Violence-informed Approaches by Margarida Medina Martins, Founder of AMCV, and Alberta Burity, Coordinator of AMCV’s Counselling Center on DV Sexual Violence and Trauma-informed Approaches by Monica Albuquerque, Director of AMCV Crisis Center
- 12:45 – End of the event
ETHICS & QUALITY COMMITTEE
MARCH 2023
We are very pleased to have selected the Ethics & Quality Committee for the FULFIL project, concerned with building capacity of legal professionals to protect fundamental rights of migrant women in Europe. The Committee will overview the implementation of the project, in particular from the quality and ethics perspective.
The members of the Committee are feminist legal experts, policy specialists and lawyers in the wider membership of European Network of Migrant Women and European Women Lawyers Association.
