… International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation 6 February … Reding. Female genital mutilation is a violation of the humanrightsofwomen and girls and a cruel form of gender-based …
… Ahead of International Women’s Day on 8 March, European Commission … and Commissioner Cecilia Malmström have today joined humanrights campaigners to call for zero tolerance for female …
… Copenhagen, Vienna and Vilnius, 25 November 2013 A quarter of all women in the WHO European Region experience physical … assault and rape, forced prostitution, trafficking in human beings and female genital mutilation,” says Thérèse … Directive 2012/29/EU establishing minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime will …
… in the EU is facing serious challenges The advancement of gender equality in the EU is unlikely without effective … groups ofwomen or men. It is more often viewed as a humanrights violation, requiring reactive, legalistic measures to …
… All EU Member States have endorsed the main humanrights instruments, which oblige them to combat violence … rights violation, and as a specific gender-related form of violence linked to the discrimination ofwomen. This …
… Assembly adopted the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) . In … against women into a framework of discrimination and humanrights violations and measures to combat them. Both …
… 2011 by the UK’s Government Equalities Office (GEO), part of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DfCMS). It … orientation. It also aims to support and protect the rightsofwomen by helping them to reach their potential in … (CIPD), Trades Union Congress (TUC), Unite, Equality and HumanRights Commission (EHRC). Think, Act, Report targets …
… In brief In Maltese, nista’ means ‘I can’. It was the name of a €1.3 million media awareness-raising campaign run in … packets of information, a regular feature on women and humanrights through legislation, stories ofwomen and men who are …
… media – More often in the media) runs training course for women experts, to give them an understanding of how news is made, and how gender imbalances develop. The … since participants pay for themselves, and in terms ofhuman resources involved. As for its sustainability, the …