This EU Prize for Women Innovators is a cash prize awarded every year to European women who founded a successful company and brought an innovation to market. It recognises the role of women in bringing about game-changing innovations to market and honours the outstanding achievements of...
The term Gender Based Violence (GBV) includes any harmful act that affects or is likely to affect a woman, a man, a girl or a boy whether physically, sexually or psychologically or causing them suffering because of their gender. It includes, but it is not limited to, sexual violence, d...
Trafficking for sexual exploitation is the most commonly reported form of human trafficking in the European Union. It is a form of gender-based violence that disproportionately affects women. 95% of registered victims of trafficking for sexual exploitation in the EU are women or girls. ...
On September 2011, the European Parliament adopted a resolution which included measures to prevent and combat mobbing and sexual harassment at the workplace, in public spaces, and in political life in the EU. The resolution underlines the urgent need for member states, local authoriti...
Les flux récents de réfugié-e-s à destination de l’Europe et dans toute l’Europe ont mis en lumière le manque d’intérêt et de compréhension de la situation spécifique des femmes et des filles en dépla...
Gender based violence is a complex, destructive and universal phenomenon that contemporary societies are facing. In the case of Spain, the author reviews the different steps and efforts to combat violence in the country, while stressing the importance of considering gender equality and ...
Forced sterilisation happens a lot to women with disabilities and it happens the most to women with intellectual disabilities. It also happens a lot to girls with disabilities. To this end, the European Disability Forum (EDF) and CERMI Women’s Foundation have released a comprehens...
L’indice d’égalité femmes-hommes est un indicateur composite qui mesure le concept complexe de l’égalité femmes-hommes et, sur la base du cadre politique de l’UE, aide à suivre les progrès de l’égalité dans l’Union européenn...
Inclusion and pluralism are fundamental values in open societies and the European Union. It is better for everyone to live in a society that is open to diversity, including religious diversity. Yet there is a rising threat in the European Union to these values—legislation enforcin...
The reproductive care of pregnant migrants entering the European Union via its Mediterranean borders represents an under-examined topic, despite a growing scholarly emphasis on female migrants and the gendered aspects of migration in the past three decades. This article uses ethnographi...
This platform is part of the Axis 1 "Strengthening the capacities of equality actors" of the Priority Solidarity Fund "Women for the future in the Mediterranean" funded by the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs and led by the European Institute of the Mediterranean, in the framework of the project “Developing Women's Empowerment” labelled by the Union for the Mediterranean.
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