This meeting is organized every semester by the Presidency of the Council of the EU with the participation of the governmental authorities in charge of gender equality at the 28 Member States, the European Commission, the Secretariat of the Council and EIGE. The aim of the meeting is the coordination of actions of the Trio Presidency in the field of...
In April 2013, EIGE launched a new project on the Benefits of Gender Equality (BGE). By introducing a focus on benefits, EIGE seeks to promote gender equality across the EU. The BGE project included an online discussion and two expert group meetings among renowned experts and relevant networks working on evidence-based advocacy for gender equality in the EU. Preliminary ideas...
The Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Lithuania is hosting a conference “ Gender equality and non-discrimination: experiences and opportunities from the implementation of EU structural funds investments” to present the results of the Evaluation of the impact of EU structural assistance on the implementation of the horizontal priority “gender equality and non-discrimination”. PPMI Group carried out this evaluation...
On 20 December 2013, the Spanish Council of Ministers approved a draft bill aiming at reforming the current law on sexual and reproductive health and rights. If approved, this new bill would lead to a 30 years step backwards in the rights of women and the failure of the Government to fulfill its fundamental role to promote gender equality and...
Managing diversity in the workplace brings many benefits but is not without efforts. Acknowledgment of other forms of discrimination are being added to long-recognized patterns such as those based on sex, race and religion. There is increasing awareness of unfair treatment of both young and older persons, people with disabilities, and LGBTI, sexual and life style choices. In this workshop...
Numerous research shows that EU Structural Funds investments offer huge potential for gender equality, for innovative gender equality initiatives, for true gender mainstreaming. The EU funded projects often have a broader impact on the societies, thus it is essential that the gender dimension within them is well developed. For this to happen, the civil servants behind the programming process and...
The Global Interfaith and Secular Alliance: Working for Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights (GISA) is a group of faith-based and secular organizations working to counter religious extremist forces that seek to curtail global progress on reproductive and sexual rights.
The conference Gender Equality Pays Off is a launching event of the project Towards Equalising Power Relations between Women and Men, funded under the Norwegian Financial Mechanism Programme 2009-2014 for Slovenia. Objective of the project is to increase understanding of (un)equal power relations between women and men in order to identify adequate responses to gender imbalances and inequalities that persist...
MEPs Mikael Gustafsson, Chairman of Women's Right Committee (SV), Willy Meyer ES, Ines Zuber (PT) and Marie Christine Vergiat (FR), Kindly Invite you to a press conference New abortion law in Spain: Women's rights under fire in Europe! Wednesday 15/01/14, 14:00, EP press room Strasbourg With the participation of : Ascensión de las Heras, MP Izquierda Unida and spokesperson for...
On 4 December 2000, the UN General Assembly, taking into account the large and increasing number of migrants in the world, proclaimed 18 December as International Migrants Day. On 18 December 1990, the General Assembly had adopted the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families. UN Member States and intergovernmental...
Gender history, as well as history of knowledge and science, has been part of the established repertoire of the wide array of historical and cultural research studies in recent years. Yet primarily national perspectives and the focus on either gender or knowledge/science remains predominant. At its annual meeting, the Leibniz Graduate School for Cultures of Knowledge in Central European Transnational...
