About the conference This conference offers the chance to discuss and develop approaches of feminist girls* specific youth education on international level. Experts from Czech Republic, Turkey, Germany and Italy will deliver lectures and workshops on key aspects like living conditions for females in different European countries, intersectional approaches to girls* work or transpositive youth education. Staffmembers, feminist activists, stakeholders...
The Journalist Thematic Network brings together journalists from the EU Member States. This is the second meeting of the year and will provide a rich source of information on the latest developments in gender equality in Europe. Day 1: The meeting marks the launch of EIGE’s report on ‘Gender, Poverty and Intersecting Inequalities’, prepared for the Slovak Presidency of the...
EIGE's coordinator for cooperation with EU Pre-accession countries Kristaps Petermanis will participate in the High-Level Advisory Group Meeting on the OSCE Survey on the Well-being and Security of Women in South East Europe, Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus. More details on the tender Provision of Conducting a Survey on the Well-being and Security of Women in South East Europe...
(For Lithuanian see below) On 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, EIGE marks the beginning of an awareness-raising campaign in Vilnius by lighting up the historic Town Hall in orange. Violence against women is a serious problem in the European Union today. This is the case also in Lithuania where 35% of women in...
One in three women globally still experiences physical and sexual abuse, thus gender-based violence remains of epidemic proportions. The results of various studies reveal that the violence against women not only restricts the civil and political participation of women, their equal treatment in the labour market, but is also one of the preconditions that decelerate the functioning of economy and...
Trade Unions are fully determined to eliminate violence against women through collective agreements, and their proper implementation with employers, at national, sectoral and company levels. In a ground-breaking, and unpublished, study ‘Safe at Home-Safe at work’, which will be presented in Madrid on November 24-25 to mark the International Day against Violence against Women (November 25), the European Trade Union...
Statistics show that violence against women is a serious problem in the European Union today. About 30% of women in Europe have experienced physical or sexual violence. This is the case also in Lithuania. To address the issue, a European awareness-raising campaign will be kicked off on 25 November 2016 and run throughout 2017. EIGE starts the campaign in Vilnius...
This year EIGE will finalise a measurement framework of violence against women (VAW) in the EU, which will become a part of EIGE’s Gender Equality Index and will be monitored every two years. The next update of the Gender Equality Index will be launched in October, 2017. The measurement framework shall support the EU and its Member States to monitor...
Prepare to discover some of the world’s most disruptive, change agents at the SAFE Ireland Summit 2016. On the 14th and 15th November, the SAFE Ireland world will come to life in The Round Room at the Mansion House, Dublin as we gather world thinkers, creators and doers who have so much to contribute to the vision of a safe...
The General Secretariat for Gender Equality (GSGE), i.e. the governmental organization in charge of equality between women and men in Greece, is organizing a Seminar entitled "Men's Violence Against Women and Violence Against Children" (Athens, 11th of November, 2016). It is underlined that the Seminar is being organized in cooperation with the Embassy of Sweden in Greece on the occasion...
"I welcome the Summit’s objective to discuss how gender continues to be addressed in Horizon 2020, as well as how to further gender mainstreaming in my 3 priority areas of open innovation, open science and open to the world. The future of Europe’s knowledge economy will be entirely dependent on women reaching their full potential in STEM careers. My services...
As an overarching topic for this meeting, we have chosen to explore the relevance of gender equality in the European Pillar of Social Rights – one of the major priorities announced by President Juncker in the field of employment and social affairs. The outcomes of our debate will contribute to the extensive consultation that the European Commission is carrying out...