The European Women’s Lobby (EWL) highly welcomes the European Parliament decision to give green light to the EU’s ratification of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, the Istanbul Convention. This historic vote has sent once again a strong message that the EU cares, that women are taken seriously and that violence against women is not a private matter but a structural issue embedded in patriarchy, sexism and misogyny. The (...) Read more

The 67th annual Commission on the Status of Women (CSW67) finally took place in person in New York from 6-17 March 2023 after three long years of physical absence. This year’s priority theme, ‘Innovation and technological change education in the digital age’, was the first time the issue of gender digital (in)equalities was addressed at international level and resulted in a 26 page outcome document: the Agreed Conclusions.
The CSW is the largest annual multilateral meeting on women’s rights, (...) Read more