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European Women’s Lobby phenomenal members meet in Lisbon

Viviane Teitelbaum re-elected as EWL President

Posted on 17 October 2014 |

[Brussels, 16 October 2014] Last week, over 130 members of the European Women’s Lobby (EWL) met in Lisbon during an Annual Meeting to discuss future strategies and elect a new Board of Administration and Executive Committee.
Strategy post 2015 – Call for a feminist Europe
Previous to the Annual Meeting the EWL launched its report ‘From Words to Action’ a review of the European Union’s activities 20 years after the commitments made at the Beijing Platform for Action of 1995.
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EWL on the road for a Feminist Europe

Posted on 17 October 2014 |

[Brussels, 17 October 2014] Next week the European Women’s Lobby goes to Strasbourg. On the programme:
20.10 // Feminist Meet and Greet Party
21.10 // Breakfast Training on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality for MEPs.
21.10 // Demonstration for the Maternity Leave Directive
21.10 // EIGE-EWL event on Beijing+20
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Participez à notre manifestation à l’occasion du 4ème anniversaire de la Directive Maternité! Mardi 21 Octobre, 14:00 - 15:00, Parlement européen, Strasbourg

Posted on 17 October 2014 |

[Bruxelles, 14 Octobre 2014] Il y a 4 ans, le 20 Octobre 2010, le Parlement européen a adopté en première lecture sa position sur la nouvelle directive européenne sur le congé maternité. Cependant, le blocage de cette proposition au Conseil de l’Union européenne et l’excuse de la crise économique et financière ont mené la Commission européenne en juin 2014 à menacer de retirer ce texte au nom de la « bonne gestion » du processus législatif.
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EWL calls for targets to address the feminisation of poverty and to include a gender dimension in macro-economic policies

Posted on 17 October 2014 |

[Brussels, 17/10/2014] On International Day of Eradication of Poverty, the European Women’s Lobby (EWL) stresses the urgency to address women’s poverty and calls for specific targets to meet the EU2020 headline target, which aims to lift 20 million people out of poverty by 2020. Since 2012, poverty rates in the EU have risen by six million, and in the absence of urgent action, including gender and social impact assessments of macro-economic policies, these figures are likely to rise.
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EWL members support sex trade survivor Rosen and call for French abolitionist law on prostitution

Posted on 16 October 2014 |

[Brussels, 16 October 2014] Last week, during the Annual Meeting of the European Women’s Lobby (EWL) in Lisbon, EWL members took action to express their support to Rosen Hicher, a sex trade survivor, who has marched 800 km in France to call for an abolitionist law on prostitution. A proposal of law to abolish the system of prostitution in France had been adopted by the French National Assembly last year and is still waiting for the Senate to vote on it.
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The Swedish Women’s Lobby welcomes Sweden’s proposal to criminalise sex purchase abroad

Posted on 15 October 2014 |

[Statement from the Swedish Women’s Lobby, 17 October 2014] On October 3rd, the newly elected Swedish government was inaugurated and presented the Statement of Government Policy. In the statement, the new Government declared that they are a feminist Government, and one of the concrete proposals they presented was that the purchase of sexual services abroad will be criminalised, something that the women’s movement in Sweden has been calling for for a long time.
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Want a professional experience in women’s rights at EU level? Apply to EWL internship programme

Posted on 15 October 2014 |

[Brussels, 2 September 2014] The European Women’s Lobby (EWL) is the largest umbrella organisation of women’s associations in the European Union, gathering over 2000 women’s associations, and aiming at promoting women’s rights and equality between women and men in the European Union. We regularly welcome students for an internship within our Secretariat, in Brussels, and we are now preparing our internship programme for 2015.
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From words to action: women can’t wait 20 more years to enjoy their full human rights

The Beijing+20 report of the European Women’s Lobby calls for urgent comprehensive EU action to realise gender equality

Posted on 9 October 2014 |

[Lisbon, 10 October 2014] Today, the European Women’s Lobby (EWL) launched its report “1995-2015: From Words to Action” which assesses the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action in Europe, 20 years after its adoption by the international community. The launch of EWL Beijing+20 report took place in the context of the Annual Meeting of the European Women’s Lobby, the largest umbrella organisation for women’s rights in Europe.
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Feminist meet and greet party - join the European Women’s Lobby in Strasbourg!

Monday 20th October from 20:00

Posted on 8 October 2014 |

[Brussels, 08 October 2014] The European Women’s Lobby is delighted to invite you to its evening reception on Monday, October 20th from 20:00 at La Station-Centre LGBTI in Strasbourg. Come and meet us and Strasbourg-based women’s organisations and enjoy drinks to toast to the beginning of a new parliamentary term and future promising evolution of women’s rights and gender equality!
Please RSVP before Friday 17th October by sending an email to Jessica Machacova.
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One week to go for EWL Annual Conference and launch of its Beijing+20 report!

Posted on 3 October 2014 |

[Brussels, 3 October 2014] Next week, the European Women’s Lobby and all its members will gather in Lisbon for four days of meetings and action on women’s rights! In particular, this Annual Conference will comprise the launch of EWL report "Beijing+20: From Words to Action", assessing the implementation by the European Union of the Beijing Platform for Action.
@EuropeanWomen #EWLisboa #Beijing20
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