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Women-only Scottish cabinet event

Article published on BBC on 19 April 2014

Posted on 22 April 2014 |

[Scotland, 19 April 2014] The Scottish government has announced a women-only Scottish cabinet event to debate issues related to the independence referendum.
The event, which will bring together women from organisations across the country, will take place on 9 June, 100 days before the vote on 18 September.
The battle to win female voters is seen as crucial to the referendum’s outcome.
The event will look at issues such as gender equality, female representation on boards and childcare.
It (...) Read more
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Des femmes Nobel de la paix au secours des Européennes

Article publié sur rfi.fr le 19 avril 2014

Posted on 22 April 2014 |

[France, le 18 avril 2014] A l’approche des élections européennes, des signaux rétrogrades, émis par certains Etats, inquiètent la société civile. C’est pourquoi une campagne a été lancée, mercredi 16 avril, par la ministre française des Droits des femmes Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, supportée par trois femmes prix Nobel de la paix. Parmi elles, l’Américaine Jody Williams et la Libérienne Leyma Gbowee ont livré leur sentiment à RFI.fr.
« Je ne veux pas être un homme ! Je ne veux pas prendre la place de (...) Read more
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To Reduce Inequality, Start With Families

Opinion of Judith Warner in the New York Times, 20 April 2014

Posted on 22 April 2014 |

[New York, 20 April 2014] The French economist Thomas Piketty swept across the United States last week with a dire warning: Income inequality isn’t going to go away, and it probably will get worse. Only policies that directly address the problem — in particular, progressive taxation — can help us change course.
At a panel discussion in Washington of Piketty’s new blockbuster, “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” the American economist Robert Solow, who served on President Kennedy’s Council of (...) Read more
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Women & The Media - "You can’t be what you can’t see"

Posted on 22 April 2014 |

[Web, 22 April 2014] An intriguing investigation about the visibility of women in European media
Many newsrooms start their day with sifting through the papers. If women already are invisible as experts, inevitably that will be the case in all other media.
For a period of four months we cut out all pictures of men and women from 136 randomly selected editions of newspapers (87 titles, 22 countries). After the cutting we posted the pictures on long sheets. Men and women separated. It (...) Read more
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Gender equality: EU action triggers steady progress

Posted on 18 April 2014 |

[Press release of the European Commission, 14 April 2014] In 2013 the European Commission continued taking action to improve equality between women and men, including steps to close the gender gaps in employment, pay and pensions discrepancies, to combat violence and to promote equality in decision-making. Efforts are paying off: concrete progress has been made in the area of addressing the gender pay gap – notably through an initiative by the Commission to improve pay transparency (...) Read more
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European Commission sheds light on problems of international families and consults on further action

Posted on 18 April 2014 |

[Press release from the European Commission, Strasbourg, 15 April 2014] A report published by the European Commission today highlights legal problems that international couples (spouses from different nationalities) still face across Europe when they try to resolve cross-border disputes concerning their marriage or the custody of their children. The growing mobility of citizens within the European Union has led to an increasing number of families whose members are of different (...) Read more
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New CONCORD #EuropeWeWant election campaign – for a fairer Europe at home and abroad

Posted on 18 April 2014 |

[Press release from CONCORD, Brussels, 10 April 2014] The ‘#EuropeWeWant’ is a politically independent campaign that encourages a debate on achieving a fairer Europe at home and abroad at the upcoming European Parliament elections on 22-25 May 2014. The campaign was set up in April 2014 by a broad alliance of leading European civil society organisations and will hold a series of debates with European elections candidates over the coming weeks.
“With just over a month to go until the European (...) Read more
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UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women finalizes country mission to the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland and calls for urgent action to address the accountability deficit and also the adverse impacts of changes in funding and services

Posted on 18 April 2014 |

[Press release of UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women Rashida Manjoo, London, 15 April 2014] At the end of a 16-day mission to the United Kingdom, which took her to London, Leicester, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Belfast, Cookstown, Cardiff and Bristol, Ms. Rashida Manjoo, UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, delivered the following statement:
“At the outset, I would like to express my appreciation to the Government of the United Kingdom for (...) Read more
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Ex-prostituted women blast UN and Amnesty International for trying to legalize prostitution

Article of Lisa Correnti, published in LifeSiteNews.com on 21 March 2014

Posted on 17 April 2014 |

[Article of Lisa Correnti, published in LifeSiteNews.com on 21 March 2014, New York (C-FAM.org)] Women rescued from prostitution are criticizing UN agencies and Amnesty International for trying to legalize prostitution insisting legalization would lead to more girls being trafficked, and transform pimps into legitimate businessmen.
“When [UN personnel] work in a brothel then will I listen to their argument,” said one former prostituted woman referring to the newly-created agency called UN (...) Read more
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Governments Call for Increased Efforts to Promote Sexual and Reproductive Health and Reproductive Rights in Development Policies

Press release of IPPF

Posted on 14 April 2014 |

[IPPF, New York, 14 April 2014] The 47th session of the Commission on Population and Development ended early Saturday morning with a call from governments to promote gender equality and sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as key priorities for sustainable development. The Commission urged world leaders to integrate these rights into the new development framework that will replace the Millennium Development Goals, which are set to expire in 2015.
The weeklong Commission (...) Read more