[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 two 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 von der Leyen (...) Read more

[Brussels, 2 April 2020] UN Secretary General António Guterres confirms his commitment to women and girls’ rights and equality between women and men.
The coronavirus – COVID-19 - had not yet swept across the world at the time when the EWL delegation, headed by Vice President Ana Sofia Fernandes with Mary Collins, EWL Senior Policy and Advocacy Coordinator, Alexandra Silva from the Portuguese Platform for Women’s Rights, EWL national coordination, and Hafi Karsdóttir, from EWL member (...) Read more