The European United Left and Nordic Green Left GUE/NGL are organizing a conference and invite video submissions on women’s austerity stories. The conference aims to highlight the effects of the crisis on women’s daily lives across Europe, while discussing measures needed to protect their rights and uphold gender equality.
The European Commission invites civil society organisations from EU Member States working on trafficking in human beings to participate in the first meeting of the EU Civil Society Platform on Trafficking in Human Beings to take place on 31 May 2013 in Brussels. The Platform will serve as a forum for civil society to engage at the EU level and...
At the third global Women Deliver 2013 conference, May 28-30, 2013 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, more than 5,000 participants from Ministries of Health, Finance and Development Cooperation, Parliaments, leading civil society organizations, global companies, media and more are expected to attend. More than 120 concurrent sessions, high-level plenaries, skills-building workshops, and ministerial and parliamentarian forums will be held to build...
Experience Exchange in the Frame of EIGE’s Study “Collection of methods, tools and good practices in the field of women and the media (as described by area j of Beijing platform for action) in the EU 27 Member States and Croatia” EIGE is hosting a peer review on good practices in the area of women and the media, which will...
The UN Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review of UN Member States is an important mechanism/opportunity for NGO's to review gender components of individual country UPR Reports on human rights. The Final Reports of the Universal Periodic Review Working Group often contains gender-focused text that can be very useful in advocacy for the human rights of women and girls.
Increasingly, smoking and binge drinking are becoming alarming lifestyle factors for young girls and women in Europe. Our Roundtable will sound the alert about the serious health challenges for women due to tobacco and alcohol use. Already today, cancer of the lung/bronchus is the third most common cancer among women in Europe; lung cancer death has overtaken that of breast...
What is the greatest challenge we face today – jobs, inequality, economic growth? In the sixth year of the economic crisis, what are governments doing to reduce public debt, rebuild trust and ensure a sustainable future? OECD Forum 2013 is your chance to be part of the debate on how to craft better policies and create better lives, focussed on...
Following the European Economic and Social Committee’s Opinion (SOC/475) on “Gender Balance on Company Boards”, the Female Board Pool Belgium in association with the IFPM Center for Corporate Governance at St. Gallen University / Switzerland, European Professional Women’s Network / Brussels Chapter (PWI), and ASTIA, have the pleasure to invite you to a debate jointly organised with the European Economic...
Is earmarked maternity for fathers a good idea? What are the prerequisites for introducing earmarked maternity? Wherein lies the resistance to such a scheme? And what do the proponents say? Both Norway, Sweden and Iceland have an earmarked paternity leave for fathers, while Denmark chose to abolish it in 2001. By comparison, Iceland, has just extended the period of earmarked...
Feminist thought – politics of concepts The 5th Christina Conference of Gender Studies focuses on the role of concepts in feminist thought. Concepts are crucial in all research, and also often deeply political, as feminist scholarship creates and circulates conceptual innovations which transform social realities transnationally. Concepts such as “gender” and “queer” have already showed their transformational power. A plethora...
