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Feminists for climate justice! #womensaveplanet #genderCOP21

Posted on 29 November 2015 |

[Brussels, 29 November 2015] Yesterday, on 28 November, two days before the start of the Climate Summit COP21, women’s organisations and feminists met in Paris to discuss the links between climate justice and women’s human rights. Organised by the French Group Gender and Climate Justice, the day was a great opportunity to give visibility to women’s contribution to climate justice, learn from innovative actions in different parts of the world, make contacts and build strategies. The European (...) Read more
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International Day to End Violence Against Women 2015 #ourfuture

Posted on 25 November 2015 |

[Brussels, 25 November] On this year’s International Day to End Violence Against Women the European Women’s Lobby calls once more on the European Commission and the European Union Member States to deliver a concrete and ambitious EU new Strategy for Equality between women and men. With a social media action under the hashtag #ourfuture, the EWL wants to highlight that the current strategy ends in December 2015 and that no plans for 2016 have been officially announced.
We want an EU Strategy (...) Read more
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COP21: For a just, transformative & gender-responsive climate agreement

Posted on 24 November 2015 |

[Brussels, 24 November 2015] Climate change is one of the greatest challenges that the world faces, and affects us all. However, men and women affect and are affected by environmental and climate change in different ways; they also contribute to climate justice through diverse strategies. In all countries, women and women’s organisations play an important role, which has been recognised by the work programme on gender initiated at COP 20 in 2014 in Lima. Women are half of the world’s (...) Read more
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Changing the game

Posted on 16 November 2015 |

[Brussels, 9 November 2015] On the 21st of October EWL co-organised with PriceWaterhouseCoopers a lunch-time even titled Changing the Game: Gender Equality in Business.
The event was a great opportunity for the audience and the speakers to reflect on the overrrepresentation of men in all spheres of decision-making, also in business.
Read the full report and see the event’s pictures on our FLICKR (...) Read more
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Women work for free from today! No more excuses we want equal pay NOW

Posted on 5 November 2015 |

[Brussels, 2 November, 2015] From 2 November to 31 December women work for free! The European Women’s Lobby (EWL), marks the European Equal Pay Day - 2 November - by calling for more stringent measures to guarantee equal pay for women now. “60 years have lapsed since equal pay was guaranteed in the founding treaties of the European Union. Three generations of women since then continue to earn less than men. This is not good enough as women continue to be taken for granted” says Joanna (...) Read more
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The female factor: empower women, eradicate poverty infographics

The EWL calls for action

Posted on 30 October 2015 |

[Brussels, 30 October] In October the European Women’s Lobby focused on Women and the Economy, as part of its Beijing+20 campaign and published an article with interesting facts and figures at the beginning of the month.
All throughout October we raised awareness about women in poverty and called for action on Poverty Eradication Day on October 17. Read more
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Outcomes of EU Anti-Trafficking Day 2015: call for Nordic model by EU decision-makers and the EWL

Posted on 24 October 2015 |

[Brussels, 18 October 2015] To commemorate the EU Anti-Trafficking Day and bring a women’s rights perspective into the EU discussions and policies, the EWL produced three infographics based on its work and demands.
Sex trafficking is gendered and linked to prostitution: 98% of victims of sex trafficking are women and girls Sex trafficking increases in countries where prostitution is legal "Prostitution is the place where sex trafficking happens, it is the reason why sex trafficking (...) Read more
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EWL & PwC joint event on Gender Equality in Business at the European Parliament 21 October 2015

Posted on 15 October 2015 |

[Brussels, 15 October 2015]
The European Women’s Lobby ongoing work to ensure that parity at all levels of decision-making becomes reality recently saw the publication of their Second Progress Report on Women on Boards. The report: Women on Boards Cracks in the Glass Ceilling or Just a trick of the Light? tracks developments, progress, and stagnation regarding women on company boards in 11 European countries, including Italy, since the EWL’s first Progress Report on Women on Boards in 2012. (...) Read more
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Prostitution : Le LEF se joint à 55 associations pour dénoncer le sexisme du Sénat français

Article publié dans 50/50 magazine

Posted on 14 October 2015 |

[Paris, le 12 octobre 2015] Depuis le vote de la proposition de loi d’abolition de la prostitution à l’Assemblée Nationale, le 4 décembre 2013, deux ans ont passé. Deux ans que le Sénat a mis à profit pour bloquer l’adoption définitive de la loi et notamment son volet de responsabilisation pénale des clients. Les 14 et 15 octobre prochains, les quatre piliers qui constituent ce projet de loi seront remis à l’ordre du jour du Sénat : renforcement de la lutte contre le proxénétisme, meilleur (...) Read more
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Open letter to EU decision-makers in light of the European Council on migration

The refugee crisis in Europe from a feminist perspective

Posted on 8 October 2015 |

[Brussels, 8 October 2015] Today, and in light of the European Council of 15-16 October, the European Women’s Lobby has written to the EU Commissioners in charge of fundamental rights, gender equality, migration and home affairs, to raise awareness on the situation of women and girls fleeing conflict, war and discrimination. EWL members are also sending this open letter to their Ministers. We want to see a clear EU response to women’s rights in the current ’refugee crisis’.
Open letter to EU (...) Read more