Final Conference of the Mental Health Europe Daphne Project "Train Improve Reduce - Diminishing the mental health impact of violence against women by training law enforcement agents" Prompted by the knowledge that every fifth woman in Europe has been a victim of intimate partner violence, Mental Health Europe and its partners decided to tackle domestic violence by training law enforcement...
The Equality Summit 2012 will provide evidence that equality and accessibility policies can help support growth, economic development and prosperity. It will highlight the importance of equality policies and legislation for the most vulnerable groups in the current difficult financial context. The Summit will bring together around 300 high-level delegates (governments, NGOs, social partners, media, academics, independent experts, etc.) from...
The course aims at promoting gender equality in the world of work, by introducing participants to gender concepts, and moreover by providing them with an adaptable set of conceptual and information tools to bring gender equality concerns into the mainstream of labour-related development activities and in their everyday work, whether it be in a trade union, entrepreneurial, governmental or non-governmental...
The OECD Development Centre and the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs are organising a seminar on "Measuring progress towards gender equality: where do we stand?" on 13 November, in Stockholm. Participate in the online discussion on "Engaging Men and Boys to Transform Discriminatory Social Norms" and be heard at the seminar. Link to online discussion
Gender mainstreaming is an ambitious policy strategy to promote equality between women and men. The strategy is not a goal in itself; but, a political mechanism to implement,monitor and evaluate the integration of gender concerns into all policy decisions, legal frameworks, activities and programmes. Despite strong political commitments to gender mainstreaming, progress towards gender aware policies in the European Union...
The Third International Conference on Survivors of Rape (ICSoR) is a two day conference which will be held on November 9th and 10th 2012, with a seminar day taking place on Thursday the 8th, in the West of Ireland, city of Galway. Your hosts are RCNI. We believe this year's conference, building on the strong foundations of previous conferences, can...
The European Conference on Violence Against Women aims at the review of the progress in the EU and the exchange of good practices between the Member States in this area. Representatives of all Member States of the EU, including NGO’s and high ranking officials of the European Commission, the European Council, the European Parliament and International Organisations will participate in...
The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) is organising the Journalist Thematic Network meeting on two important topics that EIGE is working on: 1) Violence against Women and 2) Resource & Documentation Centre (RDC) that will take place on the 6-7 November 2012 in Nicosia, Cyprus. The meeting is addressed to journalists, media representatives and communications experts from a number...
The European Conference 'More technologies? More women entrepreneurs!' is the result of a succesful set of interlinked and complementary information and dissemination actions in the frames of the European project "ladybizIT", under the initiative "Leonaro da Vinci", with the aim to contribute to the European Comission's efforts to support female entrepreneurship and promote how Information and Communication Tools (ICTs) can...
The conference aims to be a venue for sharing experiences, based on the assumption that testimonies and exchanges between women from different walks of life create opportunities for empowerment. Women will be invited to share their stories from various spheres of life, learn from and inspire each other. Some can be small stories such as a story of entrepreneurship, and...
The gender pay gap will be the subject of a tripartite conference which will be organised in Limassol on 29-30 October by the Department for Labour Relations of the Ministry of Labour and Social Insurance. Government officials and representatives from employers’ and workers’ organisations from the Member States of the European Union will have the opportunity to discuss remaining challenges...