‘Fighting Genderalisation in Mediterranean Basin,’ is the title of a course currently underway in Gozo, organised by the Gozo University Group.
Young people from 10 different countries across the Mediterranean, Malta, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Tunisia, Morocco, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and the Netherlands are participating in the training course, which is being held in Xewkija.
The participants are young people working in the field of Euro-Arab youth cooperation, this training is particularly focused on the component of inter-regional cooperation of young people as a tool for diminishing of discrimination towards members of different gender groups and sexual minorities.
The course not only aims to discuss the impact of gender constructed roles through the history and today’s societies, but also wants to provide space for debating strategies of how to enhance youth organisations’ capacities to apply a gender sensitive approach at international level.