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Renate Jaeger
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Judge European Court of Human Rights.  "Europe has become an integral part of our lives as women and lawyers.  This is why I am a member of...

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Italy: Women on Boards

Monday, May 13, 2013

Is pink the new black this spring in Italy? Women on boards: governance and performance April 3, 2013 By Manuela Cavallo, Dorella Concadoro and Giulia Quatrini   Recently increasing attention has focus...

First fines for French SMEs over gender equality laws

Monday, May 13, 2013

  French companies with more than 50 employees have been subject to a French gender equality law.  Companies had until 1 January 2012 to sign an agreement on gender equality. Those who had not done so were obligated to provide the labour admin...

France: marriage equality bill passed into law

Monday, May 13, 2013
Adoption définitive du projet de Loi sur le mariage homosexuel Mardi 23 avril 2013, le projet de Loi ouvrant le mariage aux couples de personnes de même sexe a été définitivement adopté par l’Assemblée Nationale. Les premiers mariages pourrai...

EU Migration Law Conference

Tuesday, April 23, 2013 The European Academy of Law (ERA) is organizing the annual conference on EU Migration Law which will take place in Trier on 13 – 14 May 2012. The topics include practical problem in implementing the Returns Directive and latest developments in legisl...

Economic crisis cannot be an excuse to have loopholes in EU legislation on gender equality, say MEPs

Tuesday, April 16, 2013 MEPs today urged the European Commission to ensure that the current EU legislation on gender equality is properly implemented and transposed in all economic sectors and in all Member States. They also called for new legislation to address existing ...

Margaret Thatcher former UK Prime Minister dies

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Margaret Thatcher was the first UK female Prime Minister and the longest serving one of the 20th century (11 years). This achievement alone will forever secure her place in history as a prominant politician who dominated a turbulent time during...

Women are still under-represented

Monday, April 08, 2013 (Brussels 5 April 2013) A new EU research shows women are still under-represented according to a press release from the EU Commission.

Although the proportion of female researchers in Europe is increasing, the under-representation of women in sc...

To do without Women burns Money

Friday, March 15, 2013 Report from EWLA Vice-President Dace L. Luters-Thümmel on the 
Conference „Get Women on Board“ on 7 March 2013 in Brussels  ‘The Greens’ organised a Conference at the European Parliament that was dedicated to the issue of a better participat...

Impact of NGOs in participatory democracy

Monday, March 11, 2013 A new report on the impact of NGOs like EWLA has just been published. (See link to report HERE).
 
This report examines the extent to which European citizens engage in participatory 
democracy, and the extent to which they believe that politica...

A Message from the Turkish Association of University Women

Monday, March 11, 2013 The President of the Turkish Association of University Women, Nazan Moroglu,
has sent the following message to the President of the European Women Lawyers Association.


Dear President of EWLA,  
On behalf of the Turkish Association of U...

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