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Friday, March 28, 2014
NWCI puts 6 important questions to local and EP election candidates, Ireland
As the May 23 local and European elections draw nearer, the National Woman's Council of Ireland (NWCI) has formulated six key questions to tease out the ways in which potential candidates are committed to promoting gender equality in political...
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Tuesday, March 04, 2014
How Europe’s Five Female Defense Ministers Could Impact the Ukraine Conflict
With the new appointment of Roberta Pinotti as Italy’s defense minister, Europe now has five female defense ministers in charge of executing defense strategy. She joined Mimi Kodheli of Albania, Ursula von der Leyen of Germany, Ine Marie Eriksen...
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Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Interviews
How can minority women get into politics in Georgia?
Sabina Talibova is an ethnic Azerbaijanian living in Marneuli. Some time ago, she became involved in several non-governmental organizations which are working to engage women more in employment and politics. DF Watch talked to her about...
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Saturday, February 01, 2014
Female defence ministers pledge to break Europe's old boys' network
It happened at around 3pm on Saturday, in one of the conference rooms at Munich's Bayerischer Hof hotel, where politicians from around the world had gathered for an annual security conference. The female defence ministers of Norway, Sweden and the...
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Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Advancing women's participation in politics is a work in progress, EU
The principle of equal access for women and men to electoral mandates and elective functions has been a constitutional principle since 1999 in France, but the country is lagging behind. Time to legislate and ensure women’s representation in...
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Friday, January 17, 2014
ONE BILLION RISING FOR JUSTICE
On 14 February 2014, the European Women’s Lobby plans to bring together an excited crowd in front of the Palais the Justice in Brussels to rise, dance and speak out about the urgent need for justice and support for the women victims of violence. “...
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Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Report / White Paper
Ticking clocks - Alternative 2012 Country-Specific Recommendations to strengthen women’s rights and gender equality in the Europe 2020 Strategy
This report aims to provide input for the European Commission annual drafting of recommendations to the Member States in socio-economic policies. The report has been drafted with the input of the EWL’s member organisations and is the first of many...
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Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Report / White Paper
Women's Watch 2012-2013
European Women’s Lobby publishes feminist overview of women’s rights and gender equality in Europe! This publication is the first of its kind – a genuinely feminist appraisal of the situation on the ground in 30 European countries with regards to...
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Monday, January 13, 2014
PN MEP hopeful calls for morefemale candidates, Malta
A PN MEP candidate has called for more female candidates for the European Parliament elections. Kevin Plumpton, President of the PN’s youth wing and a former Zabbar councilor, wrote on Facebook that the PN has “very valid candidates” and hoped that...
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Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Women MPs 'face sexist gestures' in the Commons
An MP has claimed some Conservatives make lurid hand gestures towards Labour women during debates in the Commons. Sarah Champion said there was an "insidious" sexist culture in which "some Tories are very good at gesticulating about female assets"....
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Monday, November 18, 2013
Women in democracy? We still have a long way to go, UK
Almost 10 years ago, in early spring 2004, I was one of 14 women appointed to the House of Lords. At the same time, 33 men were appointed. There had been high hopes for increasing the number of women in parliament in the late 1990s. The Labour...
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Friday, November 15, 2013
Westminster has enough women, say 40% of men
A poll published today suggests that almost 40 per cent of men in the UK think that there are enough women in Parliament. In contrast, only 13 per cent of women quizzed for the survey said their sex was properly represented. Tory backbencher...
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Monday, October 28, 2013
Report / White Paper
EU guidelines on violence against women and girls and combating all forms of discrimination against them
These guidelines are based on a solid multilateral acquis, the most recent milestones of which are the UN Secretary-General's in-depth study on all forms of violence against women (2006), the work on indicators on violence carried out by Ms Yakin...
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Thursday, October 24, 2013
Interviews
Wrapped up in Georgian Dream: Nino Burjanadze takes on fight for presidency
State officials have been deliberately pursuing a policy in Georgia to make the post of President, if not redundant, then significantly lacking in leverage. Nino Burjanadze, a Georgian politician and lawyer who chaired the Parliament from November...
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Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Meet powerful women in politics
Meet former Paralympian Tanni Grey-Thompson, now  a cross-bench member of the House of Lords, former MP Ann Cryer, probably best known for her campaigns against forced marriages, and the current speaker in the House of Lords Baroness D’Souza and...
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Monday, October 14, 2013
European Development Days
Organised by the European Commission, European Development Days is Europe’s premier forum on international affairs and development cooperation. Over the years, European Development Days has been one of the fastest-growing international forums and...
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Monday, October 14, 2013
WORLD FORUM FOR DEMOCRACY 2013
A decline in democratic participation is often viewed as a symptom of a detachment between citizens and institutions. Social media and social networks enable individuals to exchange, plan, act and interact with politicians and activists outside...
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Friday, October 11, 2013
Report / White Paper
A comparative study of structures for women MPs in the OSCE
As a first of its kind in the OSCE region, this study is concerned with the presence and operation of dedicated women’s parliamentary bodies (alternatively referred to as parliamentary struc­tures for women members of parliament (MPs)) that promote...
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