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Creating an Enabling Economic Environment for Women’s Rights: An Analysis of Macro-Economic Issues in the CSW58 Agreed Conclusions

Posted on 14 April 2014 |

[By Nathalie Margi, Economic and Social Rights Consultant with the Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL)] The 58th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW58) took place at the United Nations (UN) Headquarters in New York from 10 to 21 March 2014. This year was a particularly important one since the priority theme, “Challenges and achievements in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals on creating a macro-economic environment that enables the realization of (...) Read more
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ENoMW hold their first EU-level briefing at the European Parliament with Jean Lambert MEP

Posted on 11 April 2014 |

[Brussels, 8 April 2014] Tuesday 8th April marked a key milestone in the evolution of the European Network of Migrant Women (ENoMW). Their first-ever event at the European Parliament, “Migrant Women: Essential Contributors to the EU Labour Market”, was a very well-attended lunchtime briefing that marked the culmination of ENoMW’s 2013-4 advocacy campaign promoting the empowerment of migrant women in the EU. [MEP Jean Lambert (Greens/EFA, UK)->http://www.jeanlambertmep.org.uk chaired and hosted (...) Read more
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ENoMW address the 11th meeting of the European Integration Forum

Posted on 11 April 2014 |

[Brussels, 3 April 2014] European Network of Migrant Women Coordinator Lara Natale addressed the plenary of the 11th meeting of the European Integration Forum on 3rd April. She delivered a statement she put together explaining the general NGO perspective on the effectiveness and impact of the Common Basic Principles for Integration, ten years on from their adoption by the Justice and Home Affairs Council.
Lara alluded to the feminisation of migration in recent years, and reminded that many (...) Read more
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Spring Alliance calls on Europe’s leaders to put people and planet first

Posted on 11 April 2014 |

[Social Platform, Brussels, 8 April 2014] Today, the Spring Alliance, bringing together European trade unions and environmental, social and development organisations, launched its new manifesto “A better Europe now” which aims to present a positive vision of Europe “that puts people and planet first”. You can download it here, and the flyer presenting the main policy recommendations here.
Through the manifesto, the Spring Alliance calls for “a radical departure by the next European Commission (...) Read more
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International Roma Day 2014 - Life-cycle approach to address older Roma’s multiple discrimination

Posted on 11 April 2014 |

[Press release from AGE Platform Europe, Brussels, 8 April 2014] On the occasion of the International Roma Day, AGE and ERIO join efforts and publish a common statement aimed to guide Roma integration policies so that the issue of older Roma is not left out of the equation. Remarkable progress has been made in recent years towards a greater inclusion of both Roma and older people within European societies. These developments are best exemplified on the one hand by the EU Council (...) Read more
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India’s ’Womanifesto:’ How central are women’s rights to this year’s elections?

Posted on 10 April 2014 |

(CNN) — The gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old student on a moving bus in New Delhi in December 2012 marked a sharp turning point for the debate on women’s rights in India. The protests that exploded nationwide following the incident brought the issue forcefully to the political table in a way that revealed the power of the Indian masses, according to a prominent advocate for women’s rights.
"As women in India, we grow up with constraints; and live with a degree of discrimination and (...) Read more
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Widows of the genocide: how Rwanda’s women are rebuilding their lives

Widows’ associations, which sprung up after the 1994 massacre, are bucking Rwandan tradition by setting up retirement homes

Posted on 9 April 2014 |

[Kigali, 7 April 2014] When the killing finally ceased in Rwanda, close to a million Tutsis and moderate Hutus had been slaughtered and up to half a million women raped.
Among the estimated 300,000 Tutsi survivors, there were up to 10 times as many widows as widowers. Many of these women had seen their husbands hacked to death with machetes and their children thrown into latrines; some had been abducted, mutilated, gang-raped and infected with HIV.
With nothing left, and no other means of (...) Read more
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Doreen Lawrence ’most powerful woman’ in Britain

Campaigner Doreen Lawrence has been named in the number one "game changer" by Woman’s Hour

Posted on 9 April 2014 |

Doreen Lawrence, the campaigner, has been named the country’s leading "game changer" by Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour.
Baroness Lawrence, who fought for justice following the murder of her son Stephen, was awarded first place in this year’s Power List as she was hailed as “truly an example to us all”.
She was announced as the number one “game changer” by Theresa May, the Home Secretary, who praised the “great strength that she has shown over decades”.
Second place was given to Julie Bailey, the (...) Read more
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Turkey - Blocking social media violated human rights

Posted on 9 April 2014 |

[Vienna, 27 March 2014] By blocking access to social media platforms Turkey deliberately disregards the fundamental right to freedom of expression and freedom of the media, Dunja Mijatović, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media said today.
“Within one week, access to Twitter and YouTube has been blocked in Turkey,” Mijatović said. “A regulator exercising censorship by blocking is unacceptable in democracies, and it breaches numerous OSCE and other international standards that Turkey (...) Read more
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Indigenous Women Against the Sex Industry

Posted on 3 April 2014 |

Indigenous Women Against the Sex Industry (IWASI) is an unfunded group of radical feminists from many nations committed to ending patriarchy, colonialism, racism, and capitalism.
IWASI sees prostitution and pornography as forms of male violence against women. The misogyny inherent in these systems of women’s oppression is compounded by colonialism and racism, disproportionately harming Indigenous women and girls and our sisters of colour.
We are committed to abolishing prostitution and (...) Read more