ABOUT US
Organisation
The European Women’s Lobby is an organisation engaged in lobbying and campaigning to shape legislation, policy and actions of European Institutions and member states. Founded in 1990, the EWL has grown into the largest alliance of women’s nongovernmental associations in Europe. The EWL currently consists of member organisations in 26 EU Member States, four official-candidate countries, Iceland, United Kingdom as well as 17 European-wide member organisations working on very diverse areas and activities, with overall membership of over 2000 organisations across Europe.
As we have grown in size, we have also expanded in diversity and complexity, with women all over Europe coming together with different ideas and experiences to set one common agenda: to achieve equality between women and men, girls and boys in all facets of life.
For three decades, we have been at the forefront of driving transformational change in achieving women’s rights and equality between women and men. We are a powerful and connected network of women’s organisations across Europe collectively working towards common goals at the national and the European level, and strengthening the women’s movement.
With great expertise and commitment to shared values, the growing membership and professional staff, the EWL holds a strong reputation and the power to influence stakeholders at national and EU level, making it possible to introduce a feminist dimension into the EU political agenda. Strong feminist structural and power analysis of all issues related to women’s rights leads to successful campaigns and provides a space to put feminist theories into practice.
