Sexualities have become a legitimate and significant area of geographical research, across diverse areas ranging from cultural, social and feminist geographies, to political and economic domains. One of the main characteristics of studies on sexualities has been its critical and reflexive perspective, namely questioning hegemonies and modes of sexualised power relations. Although this work has brought some significant changes and...
The Society organises an annual international conference each summer in the UK. The 2013 Conference will take place from 2-5 September in Newcastle. On September 5, EIGE's Gender Equality Index will have a presentation: Measuring gender equality: an index for Europe.
The Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (FIOH) will organise the international symposium "Work, Well-being and Wealth: Active Ageing at Work.” The vision of "an active life while ageing" is becoming one of the major social challenges in Europe. The European Union has launched the Joint Programming Initiative (JPI) ”More Years, Better Lives – the Potential and Challenges of Demographic Change"...
The National University of Public Service (NUPS) in co-operation with the Tom Lantos Institute is organizing its first international Summer School on Minority Rights with a special focus on the implementation of norms in Central and Southeast Europe. The Summer School will host 30-35 participants from Europe and elsewhere. It offers a forum to discuss relevant practices and research issues...
On 29 July H.E. Mr. Espen Barth Eide, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Norway visited EIGE. EIGE largely presented its work and highlighted some of the current activities and priorities. Special attention went to the Gender Equality Index. The Minister was most interested by the position of women in decision making. The Minister concluded: "Women are particularly important. We cannot...
The conference will bring together government representatives from the 47 member states of the Council of Europe, representatives of gender equality bodies, media, civil society, private business, and other regional and international organisations. The conference aims to: Discuss the challenges posed by reconciling the media’s freedom of expression and the principle of gender equality; Encourage a gender sensitive approach in...
The Expert meeting on administrative data collection on GBV in the EU will be held in Vilnius on 4-5 July 2013. The meeting will focus on: the purpose and benefits of administrative data collection on EU level, the feasibility of administrative data collection on EU level the role of international activities in the field of administrative data collection on GBV...
Crises, ‘Creative Destruction’ and the Global Power and Communication Orders The theme invites reflections on whether or how the current deep economic/financial crisis and its attendant gales of "creative destruction" may promote deep, fundamental or multiple shifts in the geo-political and communication orders globally. A section of the conference will focus on Gender and Communication. While submissions on any topic...
EQUINET HIGH-LEVEL SEMINAR ON GENDER EQUALITY Gender Equality in the Labour Market: The role of Equality Bodies Date: Thursday – 27 June 2013 Venue: Belgian Institute for Equality between Women and Men (Rue Ernest Blérot 1, 1070 Brussels) The seminar is aimed at senior management and experts of national equality bodies, representatives of EU institutions and agencies, other international organisations...
This High Level Seminar aims at sharing with EU level stakeholders experiences and expertise coming from equality bodies’ work on the promotion of gender equality, in particular relating to the implementation of EU legislation and policies in the field. EIGE's Head of Operations Thérèse Murphy will present the session "Equality bodies and the advancement of gender equality: an EIGE perspective"...
EIGE is organising the Journalist Thematic Network meeting on two important topics that EIGE is working on: Women and the media Communicating good practices Sharing knowledge in EuroGender The meeting is addressed to journalists, media representatives and communications experts from a number of EU Member States and Croatia that are working with Communication or Gender Equality in many different forms...
