Europe – NAWO

*Challenges and Solutions for Child and Young Widows (WRI event at the House of Lords)

Posted September 17, 2018 / Europe News, National, NAWO Blog, The views and voices of NAWO and its members, News, Our Work, YWA Blog 0

The following post is written by Bella Brown, a YWA delegate. On the 4th September, I was lucky enough to attend and participate in an event at the House of Lords on child widows. The event was chaired by Baroness Anelay, and interesting...

NAWO YWA in Geneva July 2018

Posted August 31, 2018 / Europe News, International, News, Our Work, YWA Blog 0

From June 29th – July 5th, NAWO YWA were proud to enable many young delegates to attend the United Nations’ Human Rights Council meeting at their UN HQ in Geneva. Delegates delivered speeches on a wide range of topics including child...

European Women’s Lobby update

Posted August 29, 2018 / Europe News, International, NAWO Blog, The views and voices of NAWO and its members, Uncategorized, YWA Blog 0

The following post is written by Barbara Cleary, Trustee at NAWO. European Women’s Open Forum Meeting June 2018 Representation on the Lobby has changed. My term of office for NAWO came to an end in June 2018 and representation of the UK...

EU Colloquium on Fundamental Rights

Posted February 28, 2018 / Europe News, News 0

In November last year EWL Executive Committee attended the European Colloquium in Brussels. The discussion explored avenues for action to ensure women’s rights and work towards gender equality in the EU. Click on European Commission’s 2017...

Equal Pay: Still a Dream in 2018?

Posted February 28, 2018 / Europe News, News 0

As another year passes, equal pay between women and men has not yet been achieved anywhere in Europe or in the world. Equal pay was the first EU gender equality legislation adopted over 40 years ago. According to experts, it could take 100...

Purple Economy: The Economics of Care and Sustainable Development

Posted February 28, 2018 / Europe News, News 0

Investing in care is part of a forward looking, long term sustainable development model. Anna Sofia Fernandes EWL member for Portugal has produced a paper for EWL putting care at the heart of sustainable development. As we know women make up the...

Family Leave and the EU Directive

Posted February 28, 2018 / Europe News, News 0

In April 2017, the European Commission launched its proposal for a Directive on family related leave covering parental leave, paternity leave, carer’s leave and the right to request flexible working arrangements on return to work for reasons...

European Institute for Gender Equality Civil Society Consultation

Posted February 28, 2018 / Europe News, News 0

European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) hosted the second EIGE-Civil Society annual consultation meeting in February in Vilnius. The meeting brought together representatives of the Social Platform, MenEngage Network, European Economic and...

European Women’s Lobby – Highlights

Posted February 28, 2018 / Europe News, News 0

In October last year I attended the Annual EWL Board meeting. For me it was a time of reflection of my two years on the Board representing UKJCW. This year at the General Assembly there will be elections for the new Board and the Executive. We...

European Commission Update – Equal Pay

Posted November 20, 2017 / Europe News 0

November 3rd is European Equal Pay Day. This November, the European Commission are marking the event by presenting an action plan to tackle the gender pay gap. This will take a two-pronged approach, both following through on current actions and...

NAWO at EWL

Posted October 9, 2017 / Europe, Europe News, EWL posts, International, News, Our Work 0

By Barbara Cleary Hello, I have been the UK Joint Committee on Women (UKJCW) representative at the European Women’s Lobby (EWL) for NAWO for a year now, both on the Board and the Executive Committee. NAWO is one of the four umbrella organisations...

NAWO’s Brexit Update: Where are we now?

Posted October 9, 2017 / Europe, Europe News, International, National, News, Our Work 0

Barbara Cleary (Vice-Chair of NAWO) has been monitoring developments around implementation of the referendum decision last June and actively participating in a variety of forums analysing the risks to women’s equality agenda and human rights in...