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  UN 58 Commission on the Status of Women: advocacy document of the Europe/North America NGO caucus, 13 March 2014

  Posted on 13 March 2014 |

  

  [New York, 13 March 2014] The Europe/North America NGO caucus met today to discuss its joint recommendations on the draft conclusions of the 58th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW).
  You will find below and here our main policy issues, and here the latest version of the draft conclusions (of 10 March) with our amendments.
  Recommendations of the Europe - North America NGO caucus, 13 March 2014
  Commission on the Status of Women 58th session, 10 – 21 March 2014
  With (...) Read more

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  UN 58 Commission on the Status of Women: advocacy document of the Europe/North America NGO caucus, 11 March 2014

  Posted on 11 March 2014 |

  

  [New York, 11 March 2014] The Europe/North America NGO caucus met yesterday to discuss its joint recommendations on the draft conclusions of the 58th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW).
  You will find below and here our main policy issues, and here the latest version of the draft conclusions (of 10 March) with our amendments.
  Recommendations of the Europe - North America NGO caucus, 11 March 2014
  Commission on the Status of Women 58th session, 10 – 21 March 2014 (...) Read more

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  Italy: EWL members launch debate on prostitution and violence against women, 21 March 2014, Milan

  Posted on 11 March 2014 |

  

  [Milan, 13 March 2014] In the framework of “Europe is for women”, an initiative of the European Parliament Office in Milan, LEF Italia and the European Women’s Lobby invite you to their conference "Prostitution and human rights: ending violence against women in Europe", on 21 March at the EP Office of Milan.
  The conference will be dedicated to perspectives from Italy, France and Germany, with: Maud Olivier, rapporteur of the French proposal of law on prostitution at the National Assembly (...) Read more

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  Matla: Not only celebrate womanhood, but also remind society and the powers that discrimination continues to exist around us

  Posted on 10 March 2014 |

  

  [Malta, 7 March 2014] As we celebrate International Women’s Day, this week has been jam packed with events to commemorate this event. However on this day, the Malta Confederation of Women’s Organisations (MCWO), not only celebrates our womanhood, but we also remind society, and the powers that be, that discrimination continues to exist around us. One of the most blatant forms of discrimination remains violence against women. A few days ago the Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) issued the (...) Read more

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  Remember women at all times: Rada Boric, Vice-President of the European Women’s Lobby

  Article published in The Hindu, 8 March 2014

  Posted on 10 March 2014 |

  

  [New Delhi, 8 March 2014] Engage with men to address violence against women, says the vice president of the European Women’s Lobby
  “Do not pacify women with flowers once a year on International Women’s Day, but engage with them at all times,” says Rada Boric, Vice-President of the European Women’s Lobby who is in India as the Guest of Honour for the U.N. Women and European Union National Conference on Gender Equality & Women’s Empowerment to be held on Monday.
  Ms Boric, listed by Forbes as (...) Read more

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  Antonyia Parvanova: “Almost half of European women has experienced violence at one point”

  Posted on 7 March 2014 |

  

  [Brussels, 7 March 2014, FEMM Committee Press Release] Ahead of International Women’s Day on 8 March MEPs and national MPs debated on Wednesday 5 March how to make EU and national measures to prevent violence against women work better across the EU at a European Parliament Women’s Rights Committee conference. Violence has touched the lives of almost half of all women in Europe. Not only does this damage people and their families, but it also has a significant economic cost of €228 billion a (...) Read more

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  The European Women’s Lobby unveils its Manifesto for the EP 2014 Elections: "Act now for her future, commit to gender equality!"

  Posted on 7 March 2014 |

  

  [Brussels, 4 March 2014] On the week of the International Women’s Day (8 March), the European Women’s Lobby (EWL) is happy to unveil its Manifesto for the European Parliament elections 2014 "Act now for her future, commit to gender equality!".
  Women and girls are half of Europe’s population, and are entitled to the same rights as men and boys. Achieving substantive equality between women and men, promoting women’s rights and empowering women should be a priority of the European Union (EU) and (...) Read more

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  Violence against women is far too high everywhere in Europe

  The European Women’s Lobby welcomes the Fundamental Rights Agency Survey on Violence against Women

  Posted on 7 March 2014 |

  

  [Brussels, 5 March 2014] The Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) has unveiled this week the results of the first European wide survey on violence against women, revealing the extent of abuse suffered by women at home, work, in public and on-line. The European Women’s Lobby (EWL) welcomes the report of the Fundamental Rights Agency as it provides a picture on the seriousness of the problem everywhere in Europe. The survey shows the wide and extremely high prevalence of violence against women: one (...) Read more

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  International Women’s Day 2014 - Mind the Gender Pension gap!

  Posted on 7 March 2014 |

  

  [Press release of the EWL and the AGE Platform, Brussels 7 March 2014] Gender inequalities will further increase unless national governments take active measures to combat gender discrimination at every stage of life.
  With the ongoing retreat of the welfare state, governments are looking to reduce further pressure on public budgets, including from social protection and pension systems. The current economic crisis has only aggravated the situation obliging governments to introduce further (...) Read more

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  NGO CSW outcome document for the North America and European region is out

  Posted on 5 March 2014 |

  

  [Brussels, 5 February 2014] At the eve of the 58th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), NGOs are unveiling their analysis and demands with regards to the priority theme: “Challenges and Achievements in the Implementation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for Women and Girls”. Pierrette Pape, Acting Coordinator of the European Women’s Lobby (EWL) has played a key role in bringing the European perspective into the outcome document for the North American and (...) Read more

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