Reports

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The time is now for a Feminist Europe

NEW report on the state of women’s rights in Central Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the Baltic States

Posted on 1 January 2019 |

[Brussels, 16 December 2018] Writer and women’s rights activist, Elif Shafak: ‘It’s a crucial moment for global feminism. (…) We women sometimes play a role in the continuity of patriarchy, because patriarchy is not a black and white system in which men oppress women. It’s much more complicated. I think we need to go back to the basics. Remember the solidarity. The sisterhood. And expand it.”
The women of Central and Eastern Europe are telling their story. The story they tell is one of the women (...) Read more
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Our Manifesto for a Feminist Europe

European Women’s Lobby is warming up for the 2019 European elections

Posted on 12 December 2018 |

[Brussels, December 12, 2018] In May 2019, European citizens will vote to decide on the new composition of the European Parliament. The outcome of the elections will also have an impact on the face of the new European Commission and will have an influence on European politics, taking on the present and shaping the future of women and girls in Europe. Though we would like to believe otherwise, data show that women are still very much second-class citizens in the European Union (EU). While (...) Read more
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#GirlsVoices: Meeting Needs of Migrant Girls On the Move

Posted on 28 November 2018 |

[Brussels, 28 November 2018] Girls face some of the strongest challenges when making the journey for asylum and a new life, yet as a group, girls’ needs often remains a significant gap in law, policy, funding and service provision. Subsumed under the terms ‘children’ and ‘women and girls’, data specific to the experiences of girls through migration and resettlement is often lacking, which leads to challenges in securing specialised resources. Too often victims to a combination of sexism, (...) Read more
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Regional Analysis of Policies and Legislation on Violence against Women and the Istanbul Convention in the Western Balkans and Turkey

Integrated Policies - Integrated Approach

Posted on 27 November 2018 |

[Brussels, 27 November 2018] We are happy to share with you this mapping carried out as part of the European Women’s Lobby (EWL) project "Regional Forum for the Promotion and Monitoring progress of the Implementation of the Istanbul Convention in the Western Balkans and Turkey". The Regional Forum is part of the three-year UN Women Programme “Ending violence against women: Implementing norms, Changing minds” which aims to end gender-based discrimination and violence against women (VAW) in (...) Read more
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Disrupting the continuum of violence against women and girls

European Women’s Lobby Factsheet

Posted on 15 May 2018 |

[Brussels, 15 May 2018] Despite progress over the last decades on equality between women and men, there is not a single country in the world where women and girls are free from male violence, and there is not a single area in any woman’s life where she is not exposed to the threat or reality of acts of male violence. One in three women in the EU, or 62 million women, has experienced physical and/or sexual violence since the age of 15.
That is why the European Women’s Lobby created this (...) Read more
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EmpowerMAP: Better Data, Stronger Partnerships, More Impact for Women

Posted on 5 March 2018 |

[Brussels, 26 February 2018] We are proud to present you EmpowerMap—a joint project of the European Women’s Lobby (EWL) and the Orange Foundation.
The goal of the project was to gather information about grassroots women’s organisations in Spain, France, Romania and Poland which have on-the-ground programmes aimed at the socio-economic empowerment of vulnerable women.
In response to this need for information, this six-month project provided a mapping of the needs of vulnerable women and the (...) Read more
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EWL Lobbying kit for the nomination of 5 new GREVIO experts

Posted on 6 February 2018 |

[Brussels, 6 February 2018] The European Women’s Lobby (EWL) has launched a Lobbying kit for a transparent process of nomination of 5 new independent experts to the Group of Experts on Action against Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (GREVIO); the panel of independent experts responsible for monitoring the implementation of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, the Istanbul Convention.
In consultation with the (...) Read more
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Read and share! #HerNetHerRights Resource Pack & Report

Posted on 5 January 2018 |

[Brussels, 5 January 2018] The European Women’s Lobby reminds you of the #HerNetHerRights Resource Pack and Report on online violence against women and girls.
From April to November 2017, the European Women’s Lobby has led this six-month project that aims at analysing the current state of online violence against women and girls in Europe. In order to raise awareness on the problem, the EWL has brought together diverse actors from across Europe to come up with innovative solutions and policy (...) Read more
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18 myths on prostitution - In English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Hungarian and now Portuguese, Greek and Lithuanian!

Posted on 24 October 2017 |

[Update October 2017] In 2014, in the framework of its campaign ‘Together for a Europe free from prostitution’, and at the eve of the vote of the EP resolution on gender equality and prostitution (Honeyball resolution), the European Women’s Lobby (EWL) has developed a leaflet answering to the most frequent assumptions on prostitution. 18 myths are therefore looked at from a gender equality and women’s rights perspective. From “It is the oldest profession in the world” to “We must combat (...) Read more
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#WOMENSVOICES

Posted on 2 June 2016 |

[2 June 2016] New publication unveils #womensvoices recommendations on preventing and combating violence against refugee women and girls on the move. “From conflict to peace? Women’s and girls’ voices on the move” is a five-month project partnering the European Women’s Lobby and the Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC) and aiming to raise awareness on the situation of women and girls refugees in Europe.
Women and girls fleeing conflicts and travelling to or settling in Europe are at higher risk of (...) Read more