Reports

Reports magnifying glass simple EWL in-depth analysis reports provide a solid basis for policy advocacy on gender equality in Europe.

  • EWL AGORA 2023 Report

    EWL AGORA 2023 Report

    AGORA is an EWL programme that brings young feminists from all over Europe to Brussels for a 5-day gathering to discuss and explore feminism and learn from each other. It is open to young women aged between 18 and 30 who are keen to connect with other young feminists.
    The 2023 version of AGORA took place from 4-8 September 2023. The theme was Violence Against Women and Girls. The objectives were to create a safe space for young feminist women to network and learn more about feminist (...) Read more

  • Taking Stock of Women’s Representation in Politics across Europe

    Taking Stock of Women's Representation in Politics across Europe

    [Brussels, 1 March 2023] In 2022, EIGE Gender Equality Index for the sub-domain of power scored 57.2 points, the lowest score of all domains. In Europe, when it comes to women accessing decision-making positions in politics, the sector is still heavily segregated: women respectively represent only 33.4% of Ministers and 33% of Members of Parliaments. Furthermore, in the EU Parliament there are only 17 female MEPs from ethnic minorities. Yet, women, in all their diversity, should be equally (...) Read more

  • Towards a Europe Free from Male Violence Against Women and Girls – Marking 10 years of the Istanbul Convention

    Towards a Europe Free from Male Violence Against Women and Girls – Marking 10 years of the Istanbul Convention

    [Brussels, 14 April 2021] The European Women’s Lobby is committed to eliminating all forms of male violence against women and girls. The Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, the Istanbul Convention, is the most comprehensive legislative instrument to date in Europe that fully tackles violence against women and girls. Ahead of the Convention’s 10th anniversary, the EWL is pleased to present its report “Towards a Europe Free from (...) Read more

  • Feminist SEXuality Education

    Feminist SEXuality Education

    [Brussels, 10 July 2020] A key priority for the European Women’s Lobby is ending all forms of violence against women. We recognise that this is a systemic issue that affects millions of women and girls across Europe, and serves as a tool of patriarchy which has individual lifelong impact and serves to continue to oppress woman and girls.
    As such, EWL seeks to see not only accountability and justice for all victims, and towards perpetrators, but also to prevent the occurrence of such (...) Read more

  • Purple Pact: It’s Time for a Feminist approach to the Economy

    Purple Pact: It's Time for a Feminist approach to the Economy

    [Brussels, 4 March 2020] The EWL’s publication “Purple Pact: A feminist approach to the economy”, the result of the EWL feminist economics working group, provides analysis and recommendations to rethink the current macro-economic system from a critical feminist perspective. The feminist approach to the economy embodied in the EWL’s Purple Pact takes as a starting point the full participation of women in all areas of life, and equal representation of women in all their diversity, at all levels (...) Read more

  • The time is now for a Feminist Europe

    The time is now for a Feminist Europe

    [Brussels, 16 December 2018] Writer and women’s rights activist, Elif Shafak: ‘It’s a crucial moment for global feminism. (…) We women sometimes play a role in the continuity of patriarchy, because patriarchy is not a black and white system in which men oppress women. It’s much more complicated. I think we need to go back to the basics. Remember the solidarity. The sisterhood. And expand it.”
    The women of Central and Eastern Europe are telling their stories. The story they tell is one of the (...) Read more

  • Our Manifesto for a Feminist Europe

    Our Manifesto for a Feminist Europe

    [Brussels, December 12, 2018] In May 2019, European citizens will vote to decide on the new composition of the European Parliament. The outcome of the elections will also have an impact on the face of the new European Commission and will have an influence on European politics, taking on the present and shaping the future of women and girls in Europe. Though we would like to believe otherwise, data show that women are still very much second-class citizens in the European Union (EU). While (...) Read more

  • #GirlsVoices: Meeting Needs of Migrant Girls On the Move

    #GirlsVoices: Meeting Needs of Migrant Girls On the Move

    [Brussels, 28 November 2018] Girls face some of the strongest challenges when making the journey for asylum and a new life, yet as a group, girls’ needs often remains a significant gap in law, policy, funding and service provision. Subsumed under the terms ‘children’ and ‘women and girls’, data specific to the experiences of girls through migration and resettlement is often lacking, which leads to challenges in securing specialised resources. Too often victims to a combination of sexism, (...) Read more

  • Regional Analysis of Policies and Legislation on Violence against Women and the Istanbul Convention in the Western Balkans and Turkey

    Regional Analysis of Policies and Legislation on Violence against Women and the Istanbul Convention in the Western Balkans and Turkey

    [Brussels, 27 November 2018] We are happy to share with you this mapping carried out as part of the European Women’s Lobby (EWL) project "Regional Forum for the Promotion and Monitoring progress of the Implementation of the Istanbul Convention in the Western Balkans and Turkey". The Regional Forum is part of the three-year UN Women Programme “Ending violence against women: Implementing norms, Changing minds” which aims to end gender-based discrimination and violence against women (VAW) in (...) Read more

  • Disrupting the continuum of violence against women and girls

    Disrupting the continuum of violence against women and girls

    [Brussels, 15 May 2018] Despite progress over the last decades on equality between women and men, there is not a single country in the world where women and girls are free from male violence, and there is not a single area in any woman’s life where she is not exposed to the threat or reality of acts of male violence. One in three women in the EU, or 62 million women, has experienced physical and/or sexual violence since the age of 15.
    That is why the European Women’s Lobby created this (...) Read more

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EWL event "Progress towards a Europe free from all forms of male violence" to mark the 10th aniversary of the Istanbul Convention, 12 May 2021.

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