COVID-19

  • EWL Policy Brief: Putting equality between women and men at the heart of the response to COVID-19 across Europe

    EWL Policy Brief: Putting equality between women and men at the heart of the response to COVID-19 across Europe

    [Brussels, 10 April 2020] In the current global context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the European Women’s Lobby (EWL) recognises the significant and long-term impacts this health crisis will have for all across Europe and beyond, and that this will disproportionately be shouldered by women and girls. This is why EWL members across Europe and EWL’s Brussels-based secretariat have come together to draft the policy brief: ‘Women must not pay the price for COVID-19’. Our paper sets out the key calls (...) Read more

  • Covid-19 and women: The EWL sends Letter to President Charles Michel and President von der Leyen

    Covid-19 and women: The EWL sends Letter to President Charles Michel and President von der Leyen

    [Brussels, 3 April 2020] Following our call to the EU and its Member States to show political leadership and urgently ensure that gender-sensitive responses are implemented so that the price of the COVID-19 crisis is not paid by women, especially the most marginalised, the EWL has now written letters to President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and to President of the European Council, Charles Michel.
    Please find the letters below:
    EWL Letter to President of the European (...) Read more

  • EWL Statement: Women must not pay the price for COVID-19

    EWL Statement: Women must not pay the price for COVID-19

    [Brussels, 20 March 2020] The COVID-19 crisis is disproportionately impacting women and girls who are made vulnerable by our patriarchal and neoliberal capitalist system: a system that is not working for people or the planet, and most definitely not working for women and girls. In these immensely difficult times for all people and societies in Europe and globally, the EU and its Member States must show political leadership and urgently ensure that gender-sensitive responses are implemented (...) Read more

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