To participate in this online discussion, click here. Please note that in order to participate, you must be logged in. If you do not have user name and password, click Register in the top right corner of the screen. Enjoy the discussion! ------------------------------ In March 2002, the European Council decided to set targets for the availability of childcare facilities: “Member...
The Working Group on Gender Equality of the EU Audiovisual Sectoral Social Dialogue Committee is organising a working seminar on addressing issues on gender equality within the audiovisual sector in the EU. The discussions will be focused on presenting and analysing the implementation of the Framework of Actions on Gender Equality, adopted by the EU AV SDC in October 2011...
The Sibéal Feminist & Gender Studies Network for Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers will hold their annual conference in Queen’s University Belfast on 22 nd and 23 rd November. The conference invites engagement with the intersections of gender as they can be detected in a range of locations, spaces and manners. The conference seeks to stimulate a wide and inter-disciplinary...
For the last twelve years, the International Training Centre of the ILO has been offering successful high level training activities aimed at increasing awareness of gender equality principles and at providing practical tools for their implementation. It has thus become a unique hub offering opportunities of gaining knowledge and sharing best practices in the field of gender mainstreaming. The first...
The Jourlalists Thematic Network will take place in Vilnius on 21-22 November 2013. Agenda of the meeting (.pdf) Council Conclusions on The Effectiveness of Institutional Mechanisms for the Advancement of Women and Gender Equality (.pdf)
Peer-to-peer exchange seminar We encourage the professionals who design, implement and monitor gender mainstreaming actions in the national and regional administrations and institutions across the EU-28 to participate in the seminar. With this seminar we aim to bring together around 50 representatives of national and regional institutions working on gender mainstreaming to learn from the peers, to discuss the good...
The high level international conference “ Structural Change Promoting Gender Equality in Research Organisations” will be held in Vilnius, on November 21-22, under the auspices of the Lithuanian Presidency to the EU Council. The conference is organized by Vilnius University and co-funded by European Commission. The President of the Republic of Lithuania H. E. Dalia Grybauskaitė is patronizing the event...
Dans la droite ligne de son précédent colloque « Autonomie enchaînée, autonomie déchainée » organisé en mars 2012, l’association Femmes pour le Dire Femmes pour Agir (FDFA) poursuit ses travaux de réflexion sur le handicap et les discriminations en questionnant les différentes représentations de la vulnérabilité. Dans son intervention au Colloque 2012, Françoise Héritier soulignait que les chaînes qui entravent...
The Environment and Gender Index will be launched at a high level event during the global climate change negotiations on November 19, 2013 in Warsaw, Poland For more information access the Environment and Gender Index page
Gender mainstreaming is an (international) strategy to achieve gender equality. It is shorthand for saying that the impact of all policies and programmes on women and men should be considered at every stage of the policy or programme cycle - from planning to implementation and evaluation. This e-learning course aims to provide participants with a comprehensive knowledge of gender mainstreaming...
The first ever Women’s Congress will be held in Hungary on the 11th of November. Organised by the Hungarian Women’s Lobby, the congress aims to bring gender equality to the forefront of public discourse before the parliamentary and local government elections, and the elections to the European Parliament, all to be held in 2014. View the programme here.
The Ministry of Family and Social Policies, is hosting the international event entitled "Progress in Women's Human Rights in the Third Year of the Istanbul Convention", which will be held in Istanbul at the WOW Hotel on November 6-8, 2013 with the cooperation of the Council of Europe and UN WOMEN.
