… recent years FGM has gained considerable attention in the EU. In June 2012, the European Parliament adopted the … situation and trends of female genital mutilation in 27 EU Member States (MS) and Croatia” on the request of EU Commissioner Viviane Reding. The results of the project …
… of EIGE’s two-year project on gender training in the EU. The Institute aims to collect information and facilitate … mainstreaming. At the end of 2012, EIGE will launch an EU-wide database of gender trainers and training resources. …
… EIGE is bringing experts and policy makers from the EU Member States together in London to discuss Female Genital … situation and trends of female genital mutilation in 27 EU Member States (MS) and Croatia”. The participants will …
… regularly. The resources on gender-based violence enable EU institutions, authorities in the Member States, … gender equality, including gender mainstreaming, in all EU policies and the resulting national policies, by providing technical assistance to the EU Institutions, in particular the European Commission and …
… only a few of the reasons. In fact, only 12 out of the 27 EU Member States legally foresee state funding of specialised … out of ten victims of intimate partner violence in the EU are women. The number of women victims of physical intimate partner violence in the EU Member States ranges between 12 and 35 percentage. The EU …
… Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action in the EU Member States: Violence against Women Victim Support”. … prejudice to the possible future negotiations on possible EU accession. Taking note of EIGE’s report “Review of the … Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action in the EU Member States: Violence against Women Victim Support”, the …
… company board rooms," said Vice-President Viviane Reding, EU Justice Commissioner. "I often hear the argument that … for companies in breach of the proposed Directive. The EU's competence to legislate in gender equality matters dates … Parliament has called for legally binding quotas at EU level in several Resolutions. A report by the Commission …
… to be evaluated. The development and dissemination of EU-wide, comparable and reliable gender statistics and … this better monitoring and assessment of progress in the EU. To supplement these, the creation of a composite … It has been developed to provide a measure of how much the EU overall and each Member State has come towards achieving …
… sources of data on gender-based violence in the EU and Croatia” EIGE has recently launched a study on … sources of data on gender-based violence in the EU and Croatia”. The final results of the study will be … extent and consequences of gender-based violence in the EU. For instance, only nine out of 28 Member States’ crime …
… Commission Viviane Reding will launch and present a new EU-wide study on female genital mutilation (FGM) on 6 March … high on the agenda of gender equality policy makers in the EU. It should be: it is a form of gender-based violence that … data and knowledge about female genital mutilation in the EU and support the development of strategies to combat FGM. …
… equality issues and the efforts of EIGE in supporting EU and Member State policies. The President was particularly … EIGE intends to make the Gender Equality Index public at a EU Conference in Brussels in June of this year. …
… policies and programmes through gender training in the EU. The database is a freely searchable directory of over 200 gender trainers from all over the EU. The initial list of gender trainers, which was further on … resources as part of the study on Gender training in the EU: Mapping, research and stakeholders’ engagement …
… of a mapping exercise on gender training in the EU and Croatia that was completed in 2012 with the European … implementation of gender mainstreaming has been patchy in EU Member States and often there is no political will to … mechanisms for gender trainers rarely exist in the EU. Gender training programmes are not systematically …
… Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė , EU Commissions Vice-president Viviane Reding and the … Parliament Martin Schulz . They were all there when the EU House was opened. The European Commission Representation, … – all under one roof. It is the first time such an EU House has been created. The EU House is locatet at …
… launched on 31 May 2013, together with the Opening of the EU House in Vilnius, it is made available today, 11 June … provides access to information on gender equality in the EU and its Member States, and fosters collaboration and … gender equality, including gender mainstreaming, in all EU policies and the resulting national policies, by providing …
… outcomes between women and men at the individual level in EU Member States,’ says Virginija Langbakk, the Director of … halfway towards a gender-equal society, with an average EU score of 54 (where 1 stands for no gender equality and 100 … provides scores for each Member State and presents an EU average in each of the following critical areas of gender …