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State of Gender Equality in the EU for 2011
Annual report of the EP on the state of gender equality in the EU for 2011. The European Parliament adopted its annual report on equality between men and women in the EU in 2011.
’Mademoiselle’ Status to be Dropped from Official Documents in France
[The Guardian, London, 23 February 2012] French Government says honorific ’Mademoiselle’ is an unjustified and unnecessary reference to women’s marital status.
Join AWID In Honoring And Celebrating The Lives And Work Of Feminists And/or Women Human Rights Defenders And Activists!!
Share with AWID Photos of Feminist and/or Women Activists who are No Longer with Us.
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Sex and Money: Gender Budgeting for Justice and Equality - Session at AWID 2012 Forum
Budgets are statements of values. Gender budgeting is an important tool to ensure that government spending reflects that government’s commitments to women’s human rights. Share, compare, and learn from gender budgeting work in Thailand, Canada, Poland, and the Philippines.
UN to Hold World Conference on Women in 2015?
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the president of the 66th session of the UN General Assembly Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser proposed the idea here of holding a global conference on women’s issues in 2015, 20 years after the last women’s summit held in Beijing.
Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship. Call for Applications
The goal of the Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship is to provide a woman journalist with a transformative experience that will impact her career by offering her the opportunity to conduct research at leading academic institutions and build journalistic skills.
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Malgorzata Tarasiewicz become a contact person of Gdansk for the Union of The Baltic Cities in the Commission on Gender Equality.
Union of the Baltic Cities is a voluntary, proactive network mobilizing the shared potential of over 100 member cities for democratic, economic, social, cultural and environmentally sustainable development of the Baltic Sea Region.
"South Baltic - violence free zone" second partners' meeting
We are pleased to inform that on 28th and 29th of May, in Gdansk will take place second partner’s meeting schedule in the project „South Baltic violence free zone”.
"South Baltic Violence Free Zone" - seminar in Sweden
On the 8th of April, in Ronneby, Sweden, took place third and last one seminar scheduled for the project “South Baltic area – Violence Free Zone”. The subject of the seminar was “Children as a crime of domestic violence”. Participants talked about the rising numbers of children victims and institutional and non-institutional ways of help.
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Sign a Petition to Stop Violence Against Women in Europe
[Brussels, 13 March 2012] All over the continent – from Russia to Turkey to Norway – women experience psychological, sexual and physical abuse, including being harassed, beaten, raped, and forced into marriage.
Request for Nominations of "Women Inspiring Europe" Calendar 2013
On 8 March 2012, EIGE launches a new call for nominations to the Women of Europe resource pool and EIGE’s "Women Inspiring Europe" Calendar 2013.
Feminist Meeting in Wroclaw
Between July 4 – 6, 2011, a group of feminist thinkers and practitioners met to identify and discuss critical issues in current feminist political thought and action in Poland. The group has gathered to address the growing concern over the strengthening of neo-liberal policies and attitudes that are detrimental to civil rights of people in this country.
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