The Bulgarian platform European Women’s Lobby is hrilled to share that 17 young women and girls, aged 18-30, took part in the AGORA event, organised as part of the European Women’s Lobby’s project “National AGORAs and Mentoring Programs: New Methods to Engage Young Feminists in Decision-Making and Leadership”.
During the event, participants engaged in meaningful discussions about feminism, gender stereotypes, sexism, and the everyday challenges young women and girls face. They also explored a (...) Read more

Pelícot: Rapists are not monsters
By Maria João Faustino, EWL Executive Committee Member
[The original text in Portuguese was published in Público and is available here.]
The monsterisation of the perpetrators is a strategy of comfort, which allows us to distance ourselves from the horror in an illusory way. The imaginary monster has a subtext: he is not one of us.
By now, we have all heard about the Mazan rape horror. For more than a decade, Dominique sedated Gisèle Pélicot, to whom he had (...) Read more