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Be ready for the European Week of Action for Girls!

Posted on 29 September 2017 |

[Brussels, 29 September 2017] The European Women’s Lobby (EWL) is going to be super active during the annual European Week of Action for Girls and invite you to join us! We will be bringing an inspirational delegation of five young women from the youth sections of our European members who will be participating and speaking at the centerpiece of the week: the Girls Summit on October 11th.
The European Week of Action for Girls is an annual week-long event which aims to ensure that girls’ (...) Read more
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Joint Statement on Access to Safe and Legal Abortion Globally

Posted on 26 September 2017 |

[New York, 26 September 2017] The European Women’s Lobby has joined 285 organizations around the world calling on our global leaders to guarantee access to safe and legal abortion! Here’s our joint statement at the 36th Human Rights Council Session, delivered today, ahead of the Global Day of Action for Access to Safe and Legal Abortion on 28 September.
Find out more about the signatories (...) Read more
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EWL at FiLiA: A Feminist Conference (14-15 October 2017, London)

Posted on 22 September 2017 |

[Brussels, 27 September 2017] The European Women’s Lobby (EWL) is delighted to announce that we will be taking part in FiLiA where the panel will focus on the exploitative system of prostitution and how the abolitionist movement fights against the commodification of women and the youth.
Our member the European Network of Migrant Women will also be organising two exciting events over both days of the conference. The first will pay tribute to revolutionary women as October marks the 100th (...) Read more
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Seven Emergency Motions adopted by EWL Members in 2017

Posted on 5 July 2017 |

[Brussels, 5 July 2017] On 9-10 June 2017, EWL members adopted seven Emergency Motions at our annual General Assembly. These motions, put forward to the General Assembly by National Coordinations or European Wide Members, call on EWL and its members to take actions and position on a number of issues that are of strong important to women’s rights. We adopted seven motions in June 2017 on many different questions, from sexual apartheid in sports to obstetric violence, pornography and more. (...) Read more
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EWL members loud and united in Brussels

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Posted on 5 July 2017 |

[Brussels, 5 July 2017] In the beginning of June, we organised our annual General Assembly meeting in Brussels, a moment where nearly 100 feminist activists from across Europe come together to discuss our collective work. This year, we extended the meeting with a few days of strategising; meetings of working groups and a we marked 20 years of action of the Observatory on Violence against women under the slogan ’Loud & United’ to end violence against women and girls. The European Women’s (...) Read more
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Riots not diets

Meeting of the Central East European, Baltic and Balkan States Task Force of the EWL

Posted on 5 July 2017 |

[Budapest, 4 July 2017, contribution by Borbála Juhász, Hungarian Women’s Lobby] During the 2017 General Assembly the CEEBS Task Force of the EWL gathered again to discuss developments in the past year. The Task Force was born a few years before from the realisation that many things are common in the ex socialist states (with the one exception of Turkey, also a member) of the European Union regarding women’s rights and gender equality, as well as their social and economic realities. (...) Read more
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EWL Observatory on violence against women meets to discuss on strategies to foster implementation and monitoring of Istanbul Convention

Posted on 19 June 2017 |

[Brussels, 19 June 2017] On 7 and 8 June, the European Women’s Lobby (EWL) Observatory on violence against women held a strategic meeting and a Conference "Loud and United to end violence against women and girls". These events marked the 20th anniversary of the EWL Observatory, a unique structure that plays a key role in advising the EWL about the reality of violence against women in Europe. The EWL Observatory brings together a dynamic group of 35 women (professionals, women’s rights (...) Read more
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EWL Feminist Economics Working Group – for a Purple Pact

Posted on 19 June 2017 |

[Brussels, 19 June 2017] Feminist economics has always sought to make visible women’s unpaid work and to distrust the consensus about how our economies should work. The EWL wants to translate those visions of a better economic future to action, and will set out our calls for a feminist economy in a Purple Pact.
To create this, the EWL established a feminist economics working group that met for the first time in October 2016. There members agreed on the key principles for a feminist economic (...) Read more
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Passionate political discussions in EWL working group on women in politics

Posted on 19 June 2017 |

[Brussels, contribution by Katerina Hodicka, Czech Women’s Lobby, 19 June 2017] During the European Women’s Forum in the beginning of June more than 20 women representing various European Women’s Lobby member organisations gathered within the Working Group on Women in Politics to discuss inter alia current political developments on our European continent and the role of women in them.
Representatives of countries where elections (whether presidential, parliamentary or municipal) have recently (...) Read more
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Youth4Abolition discusses youth sexual exploitation in Europe

Posted on 15 June 2017 |

[Brussels, 15 June 2017] On 9 June, the members of the coalition Youth4Abolition met in Brussels for the fourth time. A network of youth abolitionist organisations, initiated by the EWL, Youth4Abolition aims to bring the youth voice in the debates on prostitution and sexual exploitation in Europe, linking to the structural context of inequalities between women and men, rape culture and pornification, and developing recommendations on sexuality education, ending male violence and building a (...) Read more