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(Brussels 16 October) This year, the European Women’s Lobby was delighted to be awarded the European Citizens Prize for our work to achieve gender equality in Europe. The presentation happened in the European Parliament on Wednesday of this week, and EWL President Viviane Teitelbaum and EWL Secretary General Cecile Greboval were in attendance. Read more
(Brussels, 18 October 2013) At the beginning of this week, two Committees voted (40 for, 9 against and 2 abstentions) to back a proposal by the European Commission (EC) to address the gender imbalance on company boards in Europe. The proposed directive now needs to be put before a plenary session of the European Parliament (EP), and will than go to the European Council to be accepted or rejected. Furthermore as another EC report showed this week, the representation of women on boards, (...) Read more
(Brussels 18 October) It is with great sadness that the European Women’s Lobby learned of the tragic death of Solidad Blanco who passed away following a car crash in Spain at the weekend. Solidad Blanco was Head of the European Commission’s Gender Equality Unit at the time when the EWL was in its early years. We could count on the unconditional support of Solidad both for our organisation and for women’s rights in Europe. In recent years, Solidad worked on environmental issues. Her openness, (...) Read more
(Brussels, 17 October, 2013) The EWL’s Mary Collins, Social and Economic Policy Officer spoke of the female face of poverty in Europe yesterday in the context of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. In response to the Commission proposal on the "Social Dimension of the EMU" a discussion was hosted by the Greens European free Alliance in the European parliament.
Poverty and social exclusion severely impede upon women’s empowerment and economic independence, preventing them (...)
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(Brussels, 18 October 2013) Three years have passed since the European Parliament adopted its position on the directive for which no formal response has been received from the Council. The Maternity Leave Directive is to be adopted through the co-decision procedure which requires two parties to negotiate and agree namely the European Parliament and the European Council.
With just less than a year before the May 2014 European Parliament elections, the EWL urges the Council to show its (...)
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(Brussels, 17 October 2013) As part of the EWL board meeting that took place over the weekend of the 11-13 October, the EWL’s secretariat organized a seminar called Back to the future – Strategies to strengthen feminist principles and funding for women’s rights and gender equality in Europe
Three panels explored a range of topics related to coming out on top of the current turbulent economic atmosphere for women’s organizations and how to breach the topic of feminism with decision-makers at (...)
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(Brussels 16 October) The first ever Women’s Congress in Hungary since the democratic transition is organized by the Hungarian Women’s Lobby. The event is inspired by the success of the Polish Congress of Women (Kongres Kobiet). The Polish Congress has been organized yearly since 2009, getting high visibility and media attention, mobilizing and uniting a large number of women from all over the country, and generating legal and policy changes in Poland.
The Women’s Congress aims to bring (...)
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(Brussels, 11 October) The second annual board meeting of the European Women’s Lobby is taking place in Brussels today and over the coming weekend. This will be the last board that will be attended by outgoing Secretary General, Cécile Gréboval, who has been involved in the Lobby for over seventeen years. We’d like to thank Cecile for all of her years of dedication, commitment and activism. We’ll have more to report on the EWL board meeting next (...) Read more
(Brussels 11 October) On Monday 14 October 2013 from 15.00 – 15.30h in ASP 5 G-3 the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality and the Committee on Legal Affairs will have a joint committee meeting to vote on the draft report on "Gender balance among non-executive directors of companies listed on stock exchange". The two co-Rapoporteurs, MEP Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou (EPP) and MEP Evelyn Regner (S&D) presented the working document in June.
The reasons why we believe, here at the (...)
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[Paris, 11 October 2013] On Tuesday 1st October, the socialist group of the French Parliament announced that it will table a proposal of law aiming at reinforcing the protection of prostituted persons and addressing the demand for prostitution. This bill proposal follows up on a new parliamentary report on prostitution, unveiled on 17 September 2013, and presenting 40 recommendations to abolish the system of prostitution.
The new proposal of law is the outcome of a parliamentary reflection (...)
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