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What about Istanbul? The EU’s role in fighting gender-based violence within and outside the Union

9 June 2023 Gender/equality

The European Commission proposed a new directive on combating violence against women and domestic violence. The proposal aims to strengthen the protection of victims of gender-based violence in the EU and to ensure that the standards of the Istanbul Convention are implemented in all Member States.

Aborting in Europe: a threatened right? State of play in four European countries

16 March 2023 Gender/equality

Noémie Berthier 6 min

Abortion is a human right allowing women to interrupt any unwanted pregnancy. Over time, several women fought to acquire this right, and many are still fighting today. In Europe, while many countries did legalise it, many obstacles remain on the women’s path, some backlashes have been witnessed in the last decades. This article will review the current situation in Poland, Hungary, Italy, and Germany.

Women in politics

30 June 2021 Society

Stella Elgersma 5 min

Women have always struggled to obtain the exercise of their rights. One of the most coveted rights was the one to participate in politics. Years of struggles led to women slowly gaining rights in politics, with women suffrage being first achieved in New Zealand in 1893 and with Saudi Arabia being the last country to grant the right in 2015. Today, New Zealand, Denmark and Finland, among the first countries to extend voting rights to all gender, are governed by women.

What Europe is there without women?

4 February 2020 Gender/equality Society

Lucia Zurro Sanchez-Colomer 5 min

This article was first published in the n°31 print magazine of Eyes on Europe. Despite the increasing number of female MEPs in the 2019 European elections, decision-making in the European Union […]

Sports: time to let women in the spotlight

22 September 2017 Gender/equality

L'équipe Rédaction

Last summer when you turned on the radio, you could hear at least every hour the very recognisable official song of the UEFA Euro 2016 “This one’s for you”. Pubs […]

Le huit mars, toutes en grève ! [CaféBabel]

18 April 2017 Other articles

Klant

Soixante ans après la signature du Traité de Rome, l’égalité salariale hommes – femmes n’est toujours pas acquise. Et si on profitait de la Journée Internationale des Femmes, le 8 […]