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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
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Criticial times - critical rights: Greek NGO coordination for EWL

Conference on women’s rights and gender equality

Posted on 5 April 2013 |

(Athens, 29 March 2013) The Greek coordination of NGOs for the European Women’s Lobby held a conference on the effects of crisis on women’s rights and gender equality in Greece and in Europe. The speakers were MEPs, Ministers, Women’s NGOs and social partners. The conference took place in the offices of the European Parliament in Athens and the Greek Coordination made an official presentation of the EWL Report on Crisis, ’The Price of Austerity’.
To put the reality of life in Greece today for (...) Read more
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Finding Gender in the Crisis

– The Impact and the Way Forward in Europe

Posted on 5 April 2013 |

(Brussels 05 April 2013) The Impact and the Way Forward in Europe. European Women’s Lobby Secretary General Cécile Gréboval is in Athens, participating in this feminist analysis of the crisis, at a conference organised by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and the University of Paris I Sorbonne.
Since the financial crisis broke out in fall 2008 it has developed from a financial into an economic and public debt crisis, and almost every industrialized country currently suffers from these crises. (...) Read more
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European Women’s Lobby Political Mentoring Project - Official Launch

Posted on 5 April 2013 |

(Brussels, 05 April 2013) Getting bodies to ballot boxes next May 2014 involves persuasion, and the pathways to power are at times particularly long and ardious. For the candidates who will stand for election, it is the culmination of years of work, committment and interest. The European Women’s Lobby is delighted that our campaign to get more women to the steps of Strasbourg and to the heart of European politics and decision making is reaching the launch phase. Next week, in Brussels, the (...) Read more
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EWL supports Daphne project recommendations for EU action against violence against women within Roma communities

Posted on 27 March 2013 |

[Brussels, 26 March 2013] Today, the European Parliament hosted a very important seminar on Romani women and gender-based violence within Romani communities, an issue which is rarely addressed. The event was organized by the Daphne project EMPOW-AIR - Empowering Women Against Intimate partnership violence in Roma communities. After two years of collaboration between partners from Spain, Bulgaria, Romania and Italy, EMPOW-AIR delivered a series of European political recommendations on (...) Read more
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57th UN Commission on the Status of Women: Agreement on Conclusions on Violence against Women and Girls Welcomed, but Women’s NGOs Express Concern over Lack of Real Progress

Posted on 22 March 2013 |

[Brussels, 22 March 2013] The European Women’s Lobby (EWL) came back from the 57th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (4-15 March 2013), relieved and delighted that UN Member States adopted agreed Conclusions on the elimination and prevention of violence against women and girls. During the two weeks-session in New York, the EWL had been very active in advocating for strong agreed Conclusions, looking at all forms of violence against women and girls, in a context of attacks (...) Read more
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Exciting vacancies in Brussels and New York - More jobs for the boys? The 50/50 Campaign says no!

Posted on 22 March 2013 |

(Brussels 22 March 2013)The European Elections and re-appointment of Europe’s “Top Jobs” may be over a year away but announcements are already being made as to who will step down.
In the past week both Herman Van Rompuy and Baroness Catherine Ashton, President of the European Council and Vice-President of the European Commission respectively, have announced they will not be seeking re-appointment next year.
This coincides with an announcement from Michelle Bachelet, Executive Director of UN (...) Read more
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EWL: Latvian members and the European Year of Citizens

Posted on 22 March 2013 |

(Brussels, 21 March) 2013 is the European Year of the Citizen. EWL member Inete Iel?te of Latvijas Sieviešu nevalstisko organiz?ciju sadarb?bas t?kls and the Latvian coordination for the EWL is now part of the national coordination for the European Year of the Citizens in Latvia.
More information about their work can be found on their webpage and Facebook account.
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57th UN Commission on the Status of Women: Agreement on Conclusions on Violence against Women and Girls Welcomed, but Women’s NGOs Express Concern over Lack of Real Progress

Posted on 22 March 2013 |

[Brussels, 22 March 2013] The European Women’s Lobby (EWL) came back from the 57th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (4-15 March 2013), relieved and delighted that UN Member States adopted agreed Conclusions on the elimination and prevention of violence against women and girls. During the two weeks-session in New York, the EWL had been very active in advocating for strong agreed Conclusions, looking at all forms of violence against women and girls, in a context of attacks (...) Read more