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EWL members meet in Brussels, discuss Beijing+20 and share successful actions

Posted on 11 April 2014 |

[Brussels, 8 April 2014] Last weekend, the members of the European Women’s Lobby (EWL) met in Brussels to discuss EWL’s strategic objectives and actions. A fruitful meeting, with many ideas, exchange of good practices and information, and strengthening of EWL solidarity for women’s rights and gender equality in Europe.
On Friday afternoon, EWL members called for the respect of abortion right for all women in Europe, through a public action in front of the European Parliament. "My body, my (...) Read more
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European Women’s Lobby is deeply concerned about a new attempt to undermine women’s rights

The anti-choice European Citizen’s Initiative "One of Us" was presented in a public hearing to the European Parliament and the European Commission this week

Posted on 11 April 2014 |

[Brussels, 10 April 2014] The European citizen’s initiative "One of us", calling to protect the "dignity" of the embryo, was presented today in a Public Hearing in the European Parliament. This initiative, which has collected more than 1.700 thousand signatures, requests “the prohibition of EU financing of activities which involve the destruction of human embryos, especially in the areas of research, development cooperation and public health.” It calls on the European Union to prohibit EU from (...) Read more
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MEPs and NGOs sound the alarm on anti-choice threat to maternal health

Posted on 11 April 2014 |

[Brussels, 09 April 2014, Joint Press Release] European politicians and the undersigned civil society organisations called today for the European Commission to stand firm in the face of a European Citizen’s Initiative campaign that could have catastrophic consequences for maternal health in the developing world. The “One of Us” campaign, spearheaded by ultra-conservative, anti-choice movements, is the subject of a hearing at the European Parliament on Thursday, April 10th. The Commission must (...) Read more
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European Women’s Lobby and other NGOs meet with Candidate for the European Commission, Martin Schulz

Posted on 10 April 2014 |

[Brussels, 7 April 2014] On 3 April 2014, several civil society organisations were invited to meet with Martin Schulz, Candidate for the Presidency of the European Commission, to discuss the Manifesto of the Party of European Socialists (PES) and present their own demands. Pierrette Pape, Acting Coordinator of the European Women’s Lobby (EWL), represented the EWL and expressed the main demands of women’s organisations in Europe by presenting the EWL Manifesto "Act now for her future, commit (...) Read more
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Together, on our way into the European Parliament

Posted on 9 April 2014 |

[Brussels, 10 April 2014] The German member organisation of the European Women’s Lobby (EWL), the Deutscher Frauenrat, published this week an article on its website and in its magazine about the EWL’s European Political Mentoring Network.
The article describes the political mentoring programme and provides some personal impressions of two of the Mentee/Mentor pairs. The article includes interviews with the German MEP and leading Green candidate for the European elections, Ska Keller, and her (...) Read more
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Sex buyers are the last link in chain of trafficking, abuse and rape

The result of 18 months of academic work shows the fear of being named and shamed in a local newspaper would be the greatest deterrent to buyers of sex, writes Nusha Yonkova.

Posted on 8 April 2014 |

[Published in thejournal.ie, on 27 MArch 2014] Today the myth that buyers of sex are isolated, disadvantaged and lonely men will be dispelled with the publication of European Commission supported research at the ‘Stop Traffick!’ Conference in Dublin.
The conference is the result of 18 months of academic work with researchers in Ireland, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Finland and Lithuania going online into chat rooms, posting on message boards and entering the murky world of prostitution to examine the (...) Read more
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Are you ready to commit to gender equality? The EWL Manifesto explained #EP2014

Week -7: Sustainable funding for gender equality

Posted on 3 April 2014 |

[Brussels, 4 April 2014] 7 weeks before the European elections, the European Women’s Lobby explains, week after week, the demands of its Manifesto "Act now for her future, commit to gender equality!". The second demand of the European Women’s Lobby (EWL), the largest umbrella organisation of women’s associations in the European Union, is sustainable funding for gender equality.
Budgets mirror political priorities. Therefore, sustainable funding mechanisms and resources to strengthen women’s (...) Read more
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What do parties promise to women? A critical evaluation ahead of the elections made by the Hungarian Women’s Lobby

Posted on 2 April 2014 |

[Brussels, 2 April 2014] In order to find out who promotes women’s rights and to what extend European core values like gender equality are really respected, the Hungarian Women’s Lobby decided to approach the political parties of their country.
They sent a questionnaire to all the parties, including questions like if quotas for women in political parties and the economy should be established or how to promote father’s care work in the household and what they think about abortion.
To read the (...) Read more
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Are you ready to commit to gender equality? The EWL Manifesto explained #EP2014

Week -8: A comprehensive framework to achieve gender equality

Posted on 28 March 2014 |

[Brussels, 28 March 2014] 8 weeks before the European elections, the European Women’s Lobby explains, week after week, the demands of its Manifesto "Act now for her future, commit to gender equality!". The first demand of the European Women’s Lobby (EWL), the largest umbrella organisation of women’s associations in the European Union, is a comprehensive framework to achieve gender equality.
The European Union (EU) has led the way on gender equality on a series of issues, through legislative (...) Read more
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Gloria Steinem supports 50/50 campaign

Posted on 28 March 2014 |

[Brussels, 28 March 2014] Feminst icon Gloria Steinem turned 80 this week and the European Women’s Lobby is very proud to announce Ms Steinem’s support for the 50/50 campaign.
The 50/50 Campaign “No Modern European Democracy without Gender Equality”, is supported by a cross-party Alliance of a Core Group of MEP’s and aims to raise awareness for the lack of equal representation of women in decision-making positions and demands all relevant stakeholders to take concrete steps in order to increase (...) Read more