Latest news from the EWL in Brussels and from its members throughout Europe.
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(24 May 2013) The carbohydrate loading time has begun in the three days prior to the 20kms of Brussels, but we’re still not finished supporting and encouraging our team of runners in their endeavours this weekend!
We’ve taken a few tips from the 20kms website with tips for the best food for optimum performance this weekend.
What about during the race?
One basic rule: water, water and more water. Dehydration is the runner’s number one enemy. Never run more than five kilometers without (...)
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(Brussels, 24/05/13) The EWL Italian co-ordination – LEF Italia - together with the Chamber of Commerce of Milan, organised a one week study visit in Milan and Rome with women’s associations from the Russian Federation of Irkutsk, China, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. A one-day seminar to exchange good practice, took place at the offices of the European Parliament in Rome on 16 May which was attended by the head of the European Parliament Information Office in Italy, the Press officer of the (...)
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(Zagreb, 16 May 2013) The Centre for Women’s Studies, member of Women’s Network Croatia, and the EWL Coordination in Croatia organized a one-day conference on the 9th of April entitled ‘Who will represent women’s interests in the EU?’. The aim of the conference was to gather the representatives of political parties, civil society and academia in order to present their views on gender equality policies in Croatian society in the framework of joining the EU. The speakers were Nadežda Čačinović (...)
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(Brussels 16 May) The EWL Secretariat is looking for a full time administrative assistant to join our team based in Brussels. The person will work under the direction of the Secretary General and will be responsible for general administrative duties. The ideal candidate that EWL is looking for a highly organised, dynamic, independent and very attentive to detail. The ideal candidate will be able to work both in English and in French, and will have previous experience in secretarial work. (...)
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(Brussels 16 May) The Council of Europe Convention for preventing and combating violence against women (Istanbul Convention) is a real breakthrough as it sets minimum international standards for the protection of women from male violence. Signed in May 2011, the convention has to date only been ratified by four countries - Albania, Montenegro, Portugal and Turkey. States that have ratified the Convention are legally-bound by its provisions once it enters into force. It will come into force (...)
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(Brussels, 16 May 2013) On the 28 May 2013, the European Women’s Lobby will speak at the Aretusa event about women’s citizenship rights. The seminar, entitled "Addressing women’s rights within the 2013 European Year of Citizens context" will focus on the issues of violence against women, trafficking in women, and sexual exploitation, in the framework of the debates on citizenship and human rights.
ARETUSA is a platform that aims to develop the capacity of NGOs to translate the principle of (...)
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(Brussels, 14 May 2013) The EWL co-organised a very successful public Hearing on ‘Strengthening the democratic legitimacy of the European Semester - Civil Society proposals for smart, sustainable and inclusive recovery’ on 14 May 2013 in the European Parliament.
For the second time since 2010, the European Women’s Lobby has been involved with Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) engaging with the European Semester. In a move for political transparency and impact in the lives of Europeans, an (...)
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(Brussels 14 May) On the 13 May, the EWL wrote to Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, whose portfolio responsibilities are for Research, Innovation and Science within the European Commission, to express our concerns regarding the status of the Gender Sector within European Commission services dealing with research, while these services are being reorganized.
The EWL stressed that science and research are areas where equality between women and men is still far from being achieved. For (...)
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(Tuesday 14 May) Getting alternative proposals for Country Specific Recommendations (CSRs) in the European Semester. The 2013 European Semester is currently in full swing, especially according to the European Commission.
Member States are currently submitting their national reform programmes and their stability or convergence programmes and the Commission receives and then assesses them. The national documents were uploaded here as they arrived. The results of the Commission assessment (...)
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(Brussels 10 May) Next Tuesday, representatives from several European NGOs will get together at a public hearing in the European Parliament, to examine the Europe2020 strategy, and to discuss how to best tackle the glaring absence of civil society from the country specific recommendations (CSRs).
Civil Society representative organisations, (EAPN, EWL, Green Budget Europe, Eurodiaconia, EASPD, Eurochild, Caritas Europa) co-hosted by MEPs from four political parties (Marije Cornelissen, (...)
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