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New EUROSTAT report on Human Trafficking

Tuesday, April 16, 2013 EUROSTAT has published its report on Human Trafficking in the EU. Victim numbers are on the increase, conviction rates are declining, despite new new European legislation making states adopt more stringent laws and polices in relation to human traf...

Istanbul Convention discussions at EWLA congress

Tuesday, August 14, 2012 EWLA Congress Prague   18/05/2012: Empowering Women in Times of Crises Workshop Domestic violence Led by: Regula Kägi-Diener, Prof. Dr.iur., attorney-at-law, vice-president EWLA  (kaegi-diener.rechtsanwaeltin@bluewin.ch) Speakers: Rosa Logar, Autr...

Corporate Gender Gap Report

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

The Corporate Gender Gap Report 2010 March 2010 Leading companies are failing to capitalize on the talents of women in the workforce, according to the World Economic Forum’s Corporate Gender Gap Report 2010. It is the first study to c...

Ban Ki-Moon presented with petition Say NO to sexual violence

Saturday, October 23, 2010 Today at UN Headquarters in New York, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was presented with 22,219 signatures to our petition to Say NO to sexual violence against women in conflict and YES to the full implementation of UN Security Cou...

Gender Equality: The Missing Link?

Thursday, October 14, 2010 Gender Equality: The Missing Link? Rethinking the Internationally Agreed Development Goals beyond 2015 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Org...

New Report on ICC judgments and sexual violence

Thursday, October 14, 2010 Review of the sexual violence elements of the judgments of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ...

Canadian judge overturns brothel ban in Ontario

Thursday, October 14, 2010 Canadian judge overturns brothel ban in Ontario The judge found the laws force sex workers to choose between safety and liberty Pimping, soliciting and running brothels have been decriminalised in Canada's Ontario province after jud...

More needs to be done to ensure gender equality in peacebuilding, Ban warns

Thursday, October 14, 2010 More needs to be done to ensure gender equality in peacebuilding, Ban warns 8 October 2010 – Ten years after the adoption of a Security Council resolution calling for equal participation by women in post-conflict peacebuilding, ...

EP Vice-President awarded Medal

Thursday, October 07, 2010           The medal of the National Order of the Cedar of Lebanon – the rank of commander awarded to the EP Vice-President Mrs. Rodi Kratsa by the President of Lebanon   A highest honorary distin...

EU PRESIDENCY SEEKS RECAST DIRECTIVES ON ASYLUM

Tuesday, September 28, 2010
undefined Europe: A gender-sensitive Common European Asylum System? The Belgian Presidency of the European Union has decided to prioritise four EU instruments in the second phase of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) u...

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