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Does the EU have zero vision on ending female genital mutilation, ask EWL and Amnesty International

Posted on 3 February 2012 |

[Brussels, 03 February 2012] Ahead of the International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), Amnesty International and the European Women’s Lobby challenged the European Union to lay out its vision and commitment for ending female genital mutilation and other forms of violence against women. Since 2010, when the European Commission committed to adopt a strategy on violence against women, including FGM, there has been no coherent, structured attempt to address this human (...) Read more
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European Parliment joins EWL’s call for adequate EU funding to combat VAW

Posted on 2 February 2012 |

[Brussels, 02 February 2012] EU funding for combating violence against women must not be decreased in the EU long term budget 2014-2020, requires European Parliament in a resolution adopted on Thursday.
The European Women’s Lobby welcomes the resolution, drafted by Regina Bastos (EPP), as an important contribution to the on-going debate about the future EU budget. The EWL is concerned that in the Commission’s proposals for future EU funding programmes there is no earmarked funding for gender (...) Read more
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EP mid-term elections backlash against gender balance, says EWL

Posted on 27 January 2012 |

[Brussels, 26 January 2012] The disappointing results of the European Parliament mid-term elections reveal that this institution still has a long way to go for gender parity. In the aftermath of the reallocation of the internal leading posts of the EP that takes place in the middle of every parliamentary term, the EWL calls on political leaders to do more to ensure gender parity.
The backlash against gender parity within the European Parliament means that it is necessary to reopen the (...) Read more
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EWL prostitution campaign presented in international conference on trafficking

Posted on 23 January 2012 |

[Brussels, 25 January 2012] The EWL campaing ’Together for a Europe free from prostitution’ will be presented in an international conference on trafficking in women, to be organised in Portugal next week.
The conference, entitled ’Tráfico de Mulheres - Romper Silêncios’ (Trafficking in women - Break the silence), is organised by Movimento democratico de mulheres (Democratic Movement of Women), and it will take place in Lisbon on 03 February. The conference will address trafficking in women in (...) Read more
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Hungary – EWL members reveal the untold story about the attack on gender equality

Posted on 20 January 2012 |

[Brussels/Budapest, 20 January 2012] While the European Commission and mainstream media focus their criticisms of Orban’s government in Hungary on the tretment of the central bank, judiciary, data protection and media, the continuing attacks on gender equality and LGBTI rights give us several more reasons to be alerted by the Hungarian situation.
The EWL and its national coordination in Hungary, the Hungarian Women’s Lobby, are concerned that the EU and public debate focus on rather (...) Read more
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EWL and ENoMW launch lobbying campaign for gender-sensitive family reunification policies

Posted on 18 January 2012 |

[Brussels, 18 January 2012] In the context of the European Commission public consultation on the right to family reunification, the European Network of Migrant Women and the European Women’s Lobby have launched a lobbying campaign that calls for gender-sensitive EU policies on family reunification.
We are calling on the European Commission to enforce the current EU Directive on the right to family reunification, rather than reopen legislative negotiations, which, given the current political (...) Read more
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Let’s all commit to age-friendly European Union, says NGO coalition

Posted on 18 January 2012 |

[Brussels, 18 January 2012] On the eve of the launch of the European Year on Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations, the EY2012 Coalition of which the European Women’s Lobby is an active member, presents its joint Manifesto and Road Map.
The Coalition urges all relevant actors at local, national and European level to seize the momentum of the European Year 2012 to commit to creating an age-friendly European Union that will allow everyone to live, learn, work and age with dignity. (...) Read more
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Video clips highlight discrimination against migrant women in family reunification policies

Posted on 13 January 2012 |

[Brussels, 13 January 2012] The European Network of Migrant Women (ENoMW) and the European Women’s Lobby (EWL) have produced three video clips in order to make visible the discrimination against migrant women in family reunification provisions.
The clips tell the stories of three migrant women, Liz, Saheli and Claudia. Their stories highlight the main challenges that migrant women face due to the lack of gender sensitivity of migration policies, in particular family reunification policies. (...) Read more
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New EWL project: Women’s organisations cooperating for change around the Mediterranean region

Posted on 12 January 2012 |

[Brussels, 12 January 2012] This spring, the European Women’s Lobby will organise a pilot phase for an exchange project with women’s organisations from the Mediterranean region. This project follows from the EWL members’ willingness to support women’s organisation in the democratisation process in Arab countries, and it will be supported by the Heinrich Böll Foundation.
The objective of this project is to facilitate the first exchange between women’s organisations from (South) Eastern European (...) Read more
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EU leaders must protect discriminated groups in all walks of life, say European equality NGOs

Posted on 12 January 2012 |

[Brussels, 12 January 2012] The EU has thrown in the towel about protecting discriminated groups, including lesbian, gay and bisexual people, persons with disabilities, religious minorities, youth and older people. A coalition of European equality and anti-discrimination NGOs, including the European Women’s Lobby, now calls on the European Commission and the Danish Presidency of the EU to urgently take up this issue.
The European Commission proposed a progressive EU anti-discrimination law (...) Read more