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Latest news from the European Women’s Lobby in Brussels

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  Women and girls can’t wait 20 more years to enjoy their full human rights!

  70 organisations join EWL for a joint statement to the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)

  Posted on 31 October 2014 |

  

  [Joint statement to CSW59, 24 October 2014] Adopted two years after the Vienna World Conference on Human Rights, the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) brought to light the structural inequalities and human rights violations faced by all women and girls on the planet, and set the foundations for concrete action to realise de jure and de facto equality between women and men.
  20 years later, much has been achieved, but much remains to be done. The European Women’s Lobby (EWL) report “From (...) Read more

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  #EWLontheroad: overview of two days of activism in Strasbourg for a feminist Europe!

  Posted on 31 October 2014 |

  

  [Brussels, 30 October 2014] The European Women’s Lobby is back from two refreshing days of activism at the European Parliament in Strasbourg. In 48 hours, the EWL staff met with Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), EIGE representatives and Strasbourg-based feminist organisations, trained women MEPs to become spokespersons for women’s rights and demonstrated to keep the maternity leave directive high on the political agenda!
  On 20 and 21 October, 9 staff members of the European Women’s (...) Read more

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  Great success for EWL’s first breakfast training to Members of the European Parliament on women’s rights and gender equality!

  Posted on 31 October 2014 |

  

  [Brussels, 29 October 2014] On 21st October 2014, the European Women’s Lobby held its first breakfast training to Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) on women’s rights and gender equality. The training was highly successful and gathered 7 MEPs and 4 parliamentary assistants from 4 political groups.
  This first EWL’s breakfast training is the starting point of the innovative project "Young women leaders are voices for girls & women", which was funded through the crowd-funding platform (...) Read more

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  The European Women’s Lobby explained to Members of the European Parliament - new briefings available!

  Posted on 31 October 2014 |

  

  [Brussels, 30 October 2014] The European Women’s Lobby publishes four new briefings providing user-friendly information to Members of the European Parliament (MEPs).
  Women and girls are half of Europe’s population, and are entitled to the same rights as men and boys. They are now present in all spheres of society, from education to employment, reaching political and business decision-making.
  However, despite this optimistic picture, equality between women and men is far from being a reality (...) Read more

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  Surrogacy: a global trade in women’s bodies

  Sweden’s leading feminist lobby regards surrogate motherhood as a revival of serfdom for women

  Posted on 31 October 2014 |

  

  [Article of the Swedish Women’s Lobby, published in MercatorNet on 27 October 2014] The Swedish Women’s Lobby strongly opposes surrogate motherhood. Our position is that surrogacy is a trade with women’s bodies and children, as well as a threat to women’s basic human rights and bodily integrity.
  Surrogacy is presently not legal in Sweden. However there is no legislation that regulates the fact that Swedish citizens use surrogate mothers abroad, and that their children have been brought to (...) Read more

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  "Positive change for women and girls!": Inspiring conference Feminism in London! (25 October 2014)

  Posted on 30 October 2014 |

  

  [Brussels, 30 October 2014] The European Women’s Lobby (EWL) has actively participated to the annual conference Feminism in London, on 25 October. This year, the conference’s theme was "Positive change for women and girls!" and gathered more than 600 activists from all over Europe!
  "This is a political conference!"
  The conference, moderated by the comedian and activist Kate Smurthwaite, started with inspiring speeches from Annette Lawson (NAWO, EWL member organisation) and Gail Dines (...) Read more

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  Zagreb conference on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence

  Posted on 28 October 2014 |

  

  [Brussels, 28 October 2014] Over the past ten years, 300 women in Croatia have been killed by their husbands, partners, sons or other family members and although the trend is falling, 11 were killed last year and three in the first six months of this year, a conference in parliament heard on Tuesday.
  The conference, which took place in Zagreb on the 21th of October 2014, was organised by the NGO “Centre for Women War Victims – ROSA”, member of the EWL Croatian Lobby, in cooperation with the (...) Read more

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  DELIVER NOW!

  Posted on 23 October 2014 |

  

  [Strasbourg 21 October 2014]
  Gathering outside the European Parliament (EP) in Strasbourg on the day of the 4th anniversary of the EP’s adoption of the Maternity Leave Directive, the European Women’s Lobby (EWL) made it clear that women in Europe will not wait another four years for equal maternity rights at a time when working conditions are becoming more precarious and women are facing more discrimination when pregnant and/or returning to work following child birth.
  Calling on the EU (...) Read more

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  A never-ending story: the composition of the European Commission again reveals its mainly male face

  Groundhog years - The lack of gender parity in EU institutions – Back to the future

  Posted on 22 October 2014 |

  

  [Brussels, 22 October 2014] The proposed European Commission (EC) has just been approved by the European Parliament (EP) in Strasbourg. The current Commission consists of only nine women out of 28 which is no progress in comparison to the outgoing Barroso Commission.
  “Before Jean-Claude Juncker was appointed president of the EC, he promised a modern and a female Commission. Unfortunately, this Commission is miles away from being a female Commission and is clearly not a mirror of European (...) Read more

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  Launch of EWL Beijing+20 report in Lisbon, 10 October 2014

  Posted on 17 October 2014 |

  

  [Brussels, 14 October 2014] The launch of EWL Beijing+20 report through quotes of guests and participants.
  Read EWL Beijing+20 report here. See some photos here.
  Viviane Teitelbaum, President of the European Women’s Lobby:
  "20 years after Beijing, much has been achieved, but much remains to be done. While we should be celebrating the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action, our report shows that women and girls still face inequality, violence, discrimination and insecurity. (...) Read more

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