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Support EWL and the 20Km Run Team

Posted on 19 April 2013 |

[Brussels, 19 April 2013] On the 26 May 2013, 40 runners from across Europe and beyond, aged 16-54 years, will come together to run for women’s rights and be part of HERstory – here’s how you can support them!
Over the coming weeks we’ll be putting the spotlight on some of our runners as they share their motivations and stories with us. Make their hard work, passion and dedication count by donating to their fundraising total –
By making a gift to the European Women’s Lobby you make a vital (...) Read more
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EWL brings support and a European dimension to the French mobilisation against the system of prostitution

Posted on 19 April 2013 |

(Paris, 16 April 2013) Exactly 67 years after the law banning brothels in France (13 April 1946), the 54 organisations of the Abolition 2012 coalition organised a large event on 13 April aiming to mobilising French society and politicians to obtain a comprehensive policy framework for abolishing the system of prostitution. More than 500 participants, from all sectors of society gathered to discuss ways forward to put an end prostitution, this most pervasive violation of women’s rights.
The (...) Read more
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International Roma Day 2013 - Bulgarian Platform of the European Women’s Lobby

Posted on 15 April 2013 |

(Sofia, 15 April 2013) Education should be a priority in the time of crisis. Education of Romani women should be event higher priority in the time of crisis: a round table in the Bulgarian Ministry of education
8th of April is the International Roma Day: a day to remember History and the memory of all those around half a million Roma murdered during the Holocaust. On April 8th 1971 the first congress of the International Romani Union took place. The Congress decided on a common Roma flag (...) Read more
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Roma Integration - EWL members and NGOs publish open letter to the Prime Minister of Bulgaria

Posted on 15 April 2013 |

(Sofia, 08 April 2013) To highlight the stasis of Roma integration in Bulgaria, EWL members and other activist NGOs have published an open letter they sent to the Prime Minister. Twenty years after the discussion of Roma integration started, the situation is worsening, rather than improving.
Read more about their demands here.
OPEN LETTER -Group of NGOs working for Roma integration
Dear Mr. Raykov, Dear Mrs. Kostadinova,
There has been a discussion on the integration of Roma for almost (...) Read more
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International Planned Parenthood Head urges EU to sign Istanbul Convention

Posted on 12 April 2013 |

(Friday 12 April 2013) By signing and ratifying the Istanbul Convention, the EU would send a strong political message to step up efforts to end violence against women and overcome inequality, writes Tewodros Melesse director general of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) in an article published today on Euractiv.com. “Let’s start with some of the things you may take for granted. Freedom to walk on the streets, marry who you want to, protect your body and be safe? (...) Read more
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Runners from across Europe set to “Be Part of HERstory”

Posted on 12 April 2013 |

[Brussels, 12 April 2013] The European Women’s Lobby is happy to announce that we have registered our team for the 20Km Run of Brussels on the 26th May!
Our 40-strong team includes women and men from 16 to 54 years old, from across Europe and even as far as Canada…
Soon we will announce team training sessions and ways you can help us raise the vital funds needed to secure and advance women’s right and gender equality across Europe!
The European Women’s Lobby: Works to ensure that the voices (...) Read more
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EWL supports MEPs’ call for EU action to end violence against women in Europe

Posted on 11 April 2013 |

[Brussels, 11 April 2013] The European Women’s Lobby (EWL) was pleased to take part yesterday in a whole afternoon dedicated to the issue of violence against women in the European Parliament, supported by a dozen committed MEPs. The group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists & Democrats in the European Parliament (S&D) organised a hearing on 10 April to bring the issue of violence against women back on the political agenda and to reflect upon a possible EU action to end this (...) Read more
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EWL and coalition partners demand gender equality remain central

Posted on 10 April 2013 |

(Brussels 10 April 2013) The EWL, together with a coalition of European equality networks took action together to ask the Irish Presidency, the European Commission and the European Parliament to uphold the general ex-ante conditionalities on antidiscrimination, gender equality and disability, as they negotiate the content of Annex V of the Common Provisions Regulation of the European Structural and Investment Funds 2014-2020. The common letter sent highlighted why the participation and (...) Read more
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Keep doors open - EWL supports KVINFO Mentoring Network

Posted on 10 April 2013 |

(Brussels, 10 April 2013) On the 10 April 2013, the EWL wrote to Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt in order to support the continuation of the KVINFO Mentoring Network. The very existence and the continuation of the KVINFO Mentoring Network has been put into question by the recent proposal to cut funding for this Programme made by Danish authorities during the negotiations for 2014-2016 budget.
The EWL has collaborated with KVINFO in the last year in the implementation of a very (...) Read more
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Irish EWL members launch ’Real Men Don’t Buy Girls’ campaign

Posted on 8 April 2013 |

Real Men Don’t Buy Girls" - Irish Men unite against sex-trafficking
[Dublin, 8 April 2013] The Real Men Don’t Buy Girls campaign is aiming to use high profile men who are uniting to launch this important awareness campaign and deliver the message that there is never any excuse for buying a girl, either here in Ireland or when traveling abroad with mates, said Denise Charlton, Immigrant Council of Ireland Chief Executive.
In Ireland one in four people sex-trafficked is a child. (Figures in (...) Read more