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EWL sends eight key messages on the Annual Growth Survey 2012

Posted on 16 February 2012 |

[Brussels, 16 February 2012] Ahead of the meeting of the Employment and Social Affairs Ministers of EU member states (EPSCO Council) of 17 February, the EWL sends eight key messages on Annual Growth Survey 2012 and makes concrete recommendations for integrating the missing gender dimension in the implementation of the Europe 2020 Strategy.
In March 2011, the minister adopted the European Pact for Gender Equality 2011-2020, inviting all parties to integrate a gender perspective to the (...) Read more
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Run for women’s rights - Join the EWL team for the 20km of Brussels!

Posted on 10 February 2012 |

[Brussels, 10 February 2012, updated 17 February] 20 km of Brussels is one of the most awaited events in Brussels of which everyone wants to be part of, and this year the European Women’s Lobby will be there! We would love you to join the EWL team and run the 20 kilometers for women’s rights with us on 27 May. No need to be an athlete to have fun and support a good cause!
Run for women’s rights! Be part of HER story!
By running and raising awareness and funds for us, you will help us to (...) Read more
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Denmark: EWL members organise conference on trafficking and prostitution for Danish EU Presidency

Posted on 10 February 2012 |

[Brussels, 09 February 2012] The EWL campaign ’Together for a Europe free from prostitution’ will be presented in an international conference on trafficking and prostitution, organised by EWL members in Denmark on 23 March.
The conference, entitled Trafficking and Prostitution: Global Problems, Local and Regional Solutions is organised Women’s Council in Denmark’ in the panel dedicated to the NGO perspective on trafficking and prostitution.
To get more information about the event, click here (...) Read more
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Does the EU have zero vision on ending female genital mutilation, ask EWL and Amnesty International

Posted on 3 February 2012 |

[Brussels, 03 February 2012] Ahead of the International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), Amnesty International and the European Women’s Lobby challenged the European Union to lay out its vision and commitment for ending female genital mutilation and other forms of violence against women. Since 2010, when the European Commission committed to adopt a strategy on violence against women, including FGM, there has been no coherent, structured attempt to address this human (...) Read more
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European Parliment joins EWL’s call for adequate EU funding to combat VAW

Posted on 2 February 2012 |

[Brussels, 02 February 2012] EU funding for combating violence against women must not be decreased in the EU long term budget 2014-2020, requires European Parliament in a resolution adopted on Thursday.
The European Women’s Lobby welcomes the resolution, drafted by Regina Bastos (EPP), as an important contribution to the on-going debate about the future EU budget. The EWL is concerned that in the Commission’s proposals for future EU funding programmes there is no earmarked funding for gender (...) Read more
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EP mid-term elections backlash against gender balance, says EWL

Posted on 27 January 2012 |

[Brussels, 26 January 2012] The disappointing results of the European Parliament mid-term elections reveal that this institution still has a long way to go for gender parity. In the aftermath of the reallocation of the internal leading posts of the EP that takes place in the middle of every parliamentary term, the EWL calls on political leaders to do more to ensure gender parity.
The backlash against gender parity within the European Parliament means that it is necessary to reopen the (...) Read more
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EWL prostitution campaign presented in international conference on trafficking

Posted on 23 January 2012 |

[Brussels, 25 January 2012] The EWL campaing ’Together for a Europe free from prostitution’ will be presented in an international conference on trafficking in women, to be organised in Portugal next week.
The conference, entitled ’Tráfico de Mulheres - Romper Silêncios’ (Trafficking in women - Break the silence), is organised by Movimento democratico de mulheres (Democratic Movement of Women), and it will take place in Lisbon on 03 February. The conference will address trafficking in women in (...) Read more
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Hungary – EWL members reveal the untold story about the attack on gender equality

Posted on 20 January 2012 |

[Brussels/Budapest, 20 January 2012] While the European Commission and mainstream media focus their criticisms of Orban’s government in Hungary on the tretment of the central bank, judiciary, data protection and media, the continuing attacks on gender equality and LGBTI rights give us several more reasons to be alerted by the Hungarian situation.
The EWL and its national coordination in Hungary, the Hungarian Women’s Lobby, are concerned that the EU and public debate focus on rather (...) Read more
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EWL and ENoMW launch lobbying campaign for gender-sensitive family reunification policies

Posted on 18 January 2012 |

[Brussels, 18 January 2012] In the context of the European Commission public consultation on the right to family reunification, the European Network of Migrant Women and the European Women’s Lobby have launched a lobbying campaign that calls for gender-sensitive EU policies on family reunification.
We are calling on the European Commission to enforce the current EU Directive on the right to family reunification, rather than reopen legislative negotiations, which, given the current political (...) Read more
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Let’s all commit to age-friendly European Union, says NGO coalition

Posted on 18 January 2012 |

[Brussels, 18 January 2012] On the eve of the launch of the European Year on Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations, the EY2012 Coalition of which the European Women’s Lobby is an active member, presents its joint Manifesto and Road Map.
The Coalition urges all relevant actors at local, national and European level to seize the momentum of the European Year 2012 to commit to creating an age-friendly European Union that will allow everyone to live, learn, work and age with dignity. (...) Read more