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European Disability Strategy Confirmed: The EU Disability Forum Demands

Posted on 16 January 2020 |

[Brussels, 16 January 2020] Today, Commissioner for Equality Helena Dalli confirmed that the European Commission is committed to present a strengthened European Disability Strategy post 2020. This commitment was presented during the conference“Towards Inclusion 2020”. It is also present in the Communication“ A strong social Europe for just transitions” released on the 14 January 2020.
We welcome this confirmation and reiterate our demands for a strengthened strategy, especially: The (...) Read more
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Nederlandse Vrouwen Raad Young Feminist Weekend 2019

Posted on 16 December 2019 |

[The Hague, Netherland, 16 December 2019] In October 2019, EWL’s National Coordination in the Netherlands held its first young feminist summer school. In this article, one of the participants, Eefje Smeulders, shares her thoughts about the school. The blog is also available here. Why is it important for you to be here this weekend?
From Friday 18 October until Sunday 20 October 2019 28 Young Feminists gathered in Den Haag, where they talked about the question: how can we, as feminists, (...) Read more
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Romanian Women’s Lobby visits Brussels

Posted on 8 October 2019 |

[Brussels, 27 September 2019] From 12 to 14 September 2019, a group of activists from EWL’s National Coordination in Romania, the Romanian Women’s Lobby, came to Brussels for a study and lobby visit. In this article, they tell us more.
"In September, the Romanian Women’s Lobby organised a study visit to Brussels to discuss gender budgeting with key partners and exchange ideas with other feminist organisations, including the EWL Secretariat and EWL members. The visit was organised to clarify (...) Read more
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Youth engagement against the system of prostitution

Posted on 14 August 2019 |

[Brussels, 14 August 2019] This is an article by the Plataforma Portuguesa para os Direitos das Mulheres-Portuguese Platform for Women’s Rights, EWL’s National Coordination in Portugal, about the training they organised for young abolitionists in July 2019. You can read more about EWL’s work on the abolition of prostitution here.
In July 2019, the Portuguese Platform for Women’s Rights organised a training for young abolitionists, the first training in Portugal in which young people with a (...) Read more
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Feminist Collaboration in Europe, a blog article by Engender Scotland

Posted on 2 August 2019 |

[Brussels, 23 July 2019] This is a blog article by Emma Ritch, director of Engender, which is Scotland’s feminist membership organisation. Engender sits on the United Kingdom Joint Committee on Women, which represents the UK at the European Women’s Lobby. The article was published on Engender’s blog on 17 July 2019.
In June Engender’s director Emma Ritch was in Brussels for the European Women’s Lobby General Assembly and here, she talks about the importance of our work with our feminist sisters (...) Read more
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Brexit must not equal a regression of women’s rights, by WEN Wales

Posted on 18 July 2019 |

[Brussels, 12 July 2019] This is an article by Catherine Fookes from WEN Wales, one of the members of EWL’s National Coordination in the United Kingdom. It was published in IWA click on Wales blog on 3 July 2019.
There is a temptation to view the election for the Conservative leadership in the UK as far-removed from us here in Wales and to just ignore it as a political side-show, but we ignore it at our peril. With the new leader comes a new Prime Minister, and with a no-deal Brexit a real (...) Read more
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Six month suspended jail sentence and a fine for ‘sugar daddy’ dating billboards

Posted on 28 May 2019 |

[Brussels, 20 May 2019] In September 2017 controversial billboards appeared in Brussels. Touring the areas near the Free University campus, they encouraged female students to subscribe to the dating website RichMeetsBeautiful to “improve their lifestyle” or “have a zero euro student loan by dating a sugar daddy”, showing a picture of a young women in lingerie sliding her bra strap down.
The Dutch Council of Women of Belgium, among others, immediately protested these adverts. The storm of (...) Read more
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One year post Repeal in Ireland

Posted on 20 May 2019 |

[Dublin 16 May 2019] Under the 8th Amendment of the Irish Constitution abortion was banned in almost all circumstances. One year ago, on the 25th May 2018, the Irish people voted by a landslide to remove the 8th. The National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI) was one of the three organisations, alongside the Coalition to Repeal the 8th Amendment and the Abortion Rights Campaign, which formed ‘Together for Yes’, the national civil society ‘Yes’ campaign. Women’s rights are always hard fought, (...) Read more
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Orla O’Connor from the National Women’s Council of Ireland named in TIME 100 list of influential people

Posted on 17 May 2019 |

[Brussels, 2 May 2019]
We are delighted to announce that our colleague Orla O’Connor from the National Women’s Council of Ireland, together with Grainne Griffin, a founding member of the Abortion Rights Campaign and Ailbhe Smyth, Convenor of the Coalition to Repeal the Eighth Amendment, have been named in TIME magazine’s annual list of the 100 most influential people in 2019 in recognition of their work for the Together for Yes campaign in the Irish referendum on reproductive rights.
The (...) Read more
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Deutscher Frauenrat statement on the WLB directive

Posted on 17 May 2019 |

Deutscher Frauenrat (National Council of German Women’s Organizations), our member from Germany , together with Federation of Trade Unions, the Men’s Forum and two other German associations of family organisations released a public statement on the now agreed upon Work Life Balance Directive.
They argue that the new directive brings progress on a EU-wide level but nothing new for the advancement of Work Life Balance and gender equality policies in Germany.
For further information, please (...) Read more