… According to the Council of Europe’s widely used definition, [1] gender budgeting is an … its twin aims: to include the lived realities of women’s and men’s lives in budgets, and to make existing … of Europe, Equality Division, Directorate-General of Human Rights, Strasbourg. [2] EIGE (2019), Gender Budgeting: …
… The EU keeps moving towards gender equality at a snail’s pace. While the Gender Equality Index score for the EU rose … the situation of LGBTQI* people and Roma and Muslim women in areas where statistics are available. Convergence … women. The EU is experiencing a backlash in women’srights and gender equality. In several Member States, the …
… track and make public allocations for gender equality and women’s empowerment’). It is also aligned with the OECD Gender … ’ as the monitoring tool for the European Pillar of Social Rights, and for the annual report on gender equality of the …
… are able to conduct risk assessment in a way that protects women’s privacy, guarantees confidentiality and provides protection … manner, in compliance with Article 4 on fundamental rights, equality and non-discrimination of the Istanbul …
… and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls (E/2013/27-E/CN.6/2013/11), United Nations, … of 25 October 2012 establishing minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime, and … 24, No 4, pp. 653-674. (42) Williams, K. R. and Grant, S. R. (2006), ‘Empirically examining the risk of intimate …
… Intimate partner violence is experienced differently by women and children according to their race, disability, age, … of a victim (87) are crucial in identifying victim’s individual safety needs and possible barriers to accessing … language difficulties or limited knowledge of their rights, or because they suffer prejudice and stereotyping. …
… EU legislative and policy framework on violence against women, making explicit the links between risk assessment and … to support and protect victims. In the EU, the Victims’ Rights Directive (Directive 2012/29/EU) (34) is the main … of the Victims’ Rights Directive is to ‘deal with victim’s needs’ in an individual manner, based on an individual …
… States in meeting the minimum requirements of the Victims’ Rights Directive and the Istanbul Convention, and to guide … community responses to intimate partner violence against women. …
… in risk management strategies. Reflect children’s specific experiences and needs in risk management … management process helps to prevent services from exposing women and children to service-generated risks (109). Managing … Police could work with local victim services, children’srights organisations and/or statutory child protection …
… should be built on an understanding of how gender and women’s inequality shape women’s and children’s experiences of … their own capacity in this area by working with women’srights organisations and victim services agencies to increase …
… manner, in compliance with Article 4 on fundamental rights, equality and non-discrimination of the Istanbul … victims’ individual safety needs, including the victim’s gender and gender identity or expression, ethnicity, race, … victim. Risk assessment must incorporate information about women’s race, disability, age, religion, immigration status, …
… of dual-earning and single-headed families as more women work outside of the home and not all families have … labour-market participation of women with children and men’s involvement in childcare, by undervaluing the social and … age by 2010. More recently, the European Pillar of Social Rights and its ‘New start’ initiative emphasised children’s …
… Rising long-term care needs keenly felt by women The EU is currently experiencing unprecedented … majority of formal and informal carers are women. Women’s greater involvement in informal care, which negatively … and life duties and needs. The European Pillar of Social Rights endorses everyone’s right to accessible, good-quality …
… and various labour-market outcomes, such as increased women’s participation in the labour market and reduced gender pay … can be seen as important tools to fulfil children’srights to have time with and care from from both their …
… topic. For this purpose, and at the European Commission’s request, EIGE developed a work—life balance scoreboard … This analysis is centred on the European Pillar of Social Rights and its ‘New start’ initiative on work—life balance, … life and whether these are equally available to all women and men, and if so, how can they further boost gender …
… Ending all forms of violence against women is a priority for the EU. In 2011, the adoption of the … prosecute trafficking. In 2012, minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime, including … mechanisms for victims of crime in the EU. In 2017, the EU’s accession to the Istanbul Convention provided a stepping …
… Across the EU, women and men report similar level of access to medical and … ethnicity, to further exacerbate health inequities. Europe’s largest ethnic minority, the Roma, for example, face … is defined by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) as ‘the assumption that everyone is “naturally” …
… The proportion of women in national parliaments (single/lower house) across the … balanced (i.e. at least 40 % of each gender), whereas women account for less than 20 % of parliamentarians in … in 2018 in particular saw significant changes to women’s representation in national parliaments (Latvia and …
… Despite growing population income and women’s continuing gains in education and employment, gender gaps … a 2018 survey by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA, 2018), 80 % of Roma interviewed were at risk of …
… framework to foster a more inclusive and cohesive EU. EIGE’s Gender Equality Index shows that advances in gender … There are big improvements in the domain of power, as more women are taking on decision-making positions, especially in … changed. The bulk of this unpaid work continues to fall on women. That makes it harder for them to juggle work and …