The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) is organising a meeting of officials from enlargement countries that will take place on 12 June 2013 in the premises of the Council of the European Union in Brussels. EIGE plays an important role in supporting the work of the EU and the Member States in the area of equality between women and...
The opening of EIGE's Resource & Documentation Centre (RDC) Entry Point will take place on 11 June 2013. The RDC Entry Point is a place to access information on gender equality work in the EU and its Member States and to interact, share information and collaborate. The Entry Point holds EIGE’s free publications and provides access to the RDC’s online...
Challenges of 21st Century: past, present and future of medicine and health care in post-socialist world(s) The 3rd Annual Health in Transition Conference 7-8 June 2013 Kindly hosted by: Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw Medical anthropology and other social sciences still have “white gaps”. Problems related to contemporary transformations and contexts of changes in medical settings...
The current public debt crisis compromises development objectives and poverty eradication across the world. The main objective of the conference is to move from discussion of root causes to focus on solutions. What needs to be done to overcome the current crisis and create a system where debt helps to oil the wheels of the economy instead of bringing it...
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...
