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EU equal treatment law: time for Member States to act!

Joint statement by EU civil society organisations

Posted on 10 December 2014 |

[Brussels, 10 December 2014] 10 EU civil society organisations (The European Women’s Lobby, ENAR - European Network against Racism, AGE-Platform Europe, IGLYO, European Network on Religion and Belief, ILGA-Europe, Social Platform, European Disability Forum, Eurochild and European Youth Forum) call on EU decision-makers to show clear commitment on the proposed Horizontal Directive on equal treatment.
EU equal treatment law: time for Member States to act!
Brussels, 5 December 2014 – As EU (...) Read more
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Sainte Nicolette 2014 - The pictures

Posted on 9 December 2014 |

[Brussels, 12 December 2014] Thank you very much for joining Sainte Nicolette in Brussels! We hope you had a wonderful time celebrating with us and toasting to the end of another year of feminist action and activism across Europe! Also a big THANK YOU to the fantastic Toy Division & ZL. drawings.
Here you find some pictures of the evening.
For now, we already wish you happy feminist holidays and a patriarchy-free NEW (...) Read more
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Excellent participation in our second breakfast training on women’s rights for Members of the European Parliament!

Posted on 9 December 2014 |

[Brussels, 09 December 2014] The second breakfast training on women’s rights and gender equality for Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) was held last Wednesday at the European Parliament in Brussels. The event was a success and gathered 20 MEPs, EP assistants and staff members from several political groups.
The second breakfast training on women’s rights and gender equality was held on Wednesday 3rd December at the European Parliament in Brussels. As part of the innovative project (...) Read more
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Looking back over the EWL Political Mentoring Network: two inspiring years of action for gender equality and diversity!

Posted on 8 December 2014 |

[Brussels, 8 December 2014] The wrap-up event of the EWL European Political Mentoring Network took place last Tuesday in Brussels. The event was the opportunity to looking back at two years of an exciting programme which contributed to give visibility to the issues of gender equality and diversity in political decision-making.
The event was opened by Viviane Teitelbaum, President of the European Women’s Lobby, who underlined the great achievements made by the EWL European Political (...) Read more
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Breakfast meeting - A Europe free from violence against women: from the grassroots to the transnational level

Posted on 4 December 2014 |

[Brussels, 4 December 2014] The European Women’s Lobby invites you to a breakfast meeting.
A Europe free from violence against women:
from the grassroots to the transnational level.
This meeting brings together 30 experts of the European Women’s Lobby Observatory on Violence Against Women and will discuss how the work of grassroots women’s rights organisations can translate into concrete action at European and national level.
Hosted by Beatriz Becerra, Member of the European Parliament. (...) Read more
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Bringing a feminist perspective into the International Civil Society Week (18-24 November 2014, South Africa)

Posted on 28 November 2014 |

The European Women’s Lobby participated in Civicus International Civil Society Week, developed last year in Johannesburg, which aims at building a global movement of citizens throughout the world. During the open space session, Pierrette proposed a discussion Read more
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“The power of united action”: seminar on violence against women plants seeds for change in Cape Town, South Africa

Posted on 28 November 2014 |

[Cape Town, South Africa, 24 November 2014] To celebrate the start of 16 days of activism to end violence against women, South African activists and NGO representatives met in Cape Town to discuss challenges and opportunities to ally and make a change towards a society free from male violence. The event has been proposed by Embrace Dignity. Then, more than 40 participants, including many young women and girls from the girls’ movement, shared their vision of a world free from male violence (...) Read more
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EWL participates in 4th International Conference on the Survivors of Rape

Posted on 28 November 2014 |

[Lisbon, 28 November] Organised by AMCV, member of the Portuguese Platform of the EWL, this conference gathered 200 participants from Europe and beyond. NGOs, survivors, lawyers, researchers and political stakeholders discussed and exchanged ways to improve the prevention of rape and responses to meet survivors needs.
During 3 days, workshops and presentations gave the opportunity to listen to survivors’voices and ways to overcome trauma by self-help groups; to envisage better cooperation (...) Read more
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It Is Not Fitrah – Creation, But Constitution!

Women And Men Have Equal Rights!

Posted on 26 November 2014 |

[Ankara, 25 November 2014] Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan once again made his public claim that women and men cannot be equal. He had expressed his view back in 2010.
This claim of Erdogan is against all the international declarations and agreements about gender equality that Turkey had undersigned. Besides, according to the gender gap report of the WEF, Turkey is 125th among 142 countries in terms of gender equality and President Erdogan’s claim made it official that Turkey will (...) Read more
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Open Letter to Dr Denis Mukwege, winner of the Sakharov Prize 2014

Posted on 26 November 2014 |

Dear Dr Mukwege,
We are writing on behalf of the European Women’s Lobby (EWL) to offer you our warmest congratulations on receiving the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in recognition of your lifesaving work with victims of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Your extraordinary and outstanding work with survivors of rape and sexual violence serves as an inspiration to all women and women’s groups around the world, including the EWL and its 2000 member organisations. (...) Read more