Peer-to-peer exchange seminar We encourage the professionals who design, implement and monitor gender mainstreaming actions in the national and regional administrations and institutions across the EU-28 to participate in the seminar. With this seminar we aim to bring together around 50 representatives of national and regional institutions working on gender mainstreaming to learn from the peers, to discuss the good...
The high level international conference “ Structural Change Promoting Gender Equality in Research Organisations” will be held in Vilnius, on November 21-22, under the auspices of the Lithuanian Presidency to the EU Council. The conference is organized by Vilnius University and co-funded by European Commission. The President of the Republic of Lithuania H. E. Dalia Grybauskaitė is patronizing the event...
Dans la droite ligne de son précédent colloque « Autonomie enchaînée, autonomie déchainée » organisé en mars 2012, l’association Femmes pour le Dire Femmes pour Agir (FDFA) poursuit ses travaux de réflexion sur le handicap et les discriminations en questionnant les différentes représentations de la vulnérabilité. Dans son intervention au Colloque 2012, Françoise Héritier soulignait que les chaînes qui entravent...
The Environment and Gender Index will be launched at a high level event during the global climate change negotiations on November 19, 2013 in Warsaw, Poland For more information access the Environment and Gender Index page
Gender mainstreaming is an (international) strategy to achieve gender equality. It is shorthand for saying that the impact of all policies and programmes on women and men should be considered at every stage of the policy or programme cycle - from planning to implementation and evaluation. This e-learning course aims to provide participants with a comprehensive knowledge of gender mainstreaming...
The first ever Women’s Congress will be held in Hungary on the 11th of November. Organised by the Hungarian Women’s Lobby, the congress aims to bring gender equality to the forefront of public discourse before the parliamentary and local government elections, and the elections to the European Parliament, all to be held in 2014. View the programme here.
The Ministry of Family and Social Policies, is hosting the international event entitled "Progress in Women's Human Rights in the Third Year of the Istanbul Convention", which will be held in Istanbul at the WOW Hotel on November 6-8, 2013 with the cooperation of the Council of Europe and UN WOMEN.
Providing information to the EU Institutions on gender equality and gender mainstreaming in the candidate countries and potential candidates is one of the tasks assigned to the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE). In 2013, EIGE was asked to participate in the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA) and the Institute commenced a project ‘ Preparatory Measures for the participation of...
EIGE is participating in an Parliamentary exchange and Dialogue symposium on Gender Equality Paris between Turkey and French Parliamentarians. In the picture, EIGEs Head of Operations together with Leonard Talmont Chair of the Joint Committee on Human Rights Lithuanian Parliament.
EuroGender will host an online discussion on institutional capacity and effective methods for gender mainstreaming on 4 and 5 November, 2013. We are looking forward to your contributions! To read background note click here. Agenda To access the discussion follow this link. Please note that you need to be logged in to EuroGender in order to be able to access...
To join this discussion you need to be registered to EuroGender. After your user profile is created, please log in and follow th link below: http://eurogender.eige.europa.eu/web-discussions/female-genital-mutilat… To see additional assistance, plesae contact Electronic Network Animator at katarzyna.pabijanek@eige.europa.eu Enjoy the discussion! ----------------------------------- The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) is pleased to invite you to an online discussion on Female Genital...
All Different, All Equal! http://www.cityofwomen.org/en This year's 19th edition of the City of Women festival entitled Let's create a place for ourselves is all about public space. Why public space as a starting point and why an appeal to reclaim a place for ourselves?