The European Women’s Lobby (EWL )
The European Women’s Lobby (EWL) is the largest umbrella organisation of women’s associations in the EU with members in all the EU member states, candidate countries, and European-wide organisations. Working together for women’s rights and gender equality, regarding women’s economic and social position, women in decision-making, violence against women, sexual and reproductive health and rights, immigration, integration and asylum, the EWL also monitors gender mainstreaming, which requires incorporating a women’s rights perspective into all European policies.
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Specific Message
Read EWL’s messages for 2010: Address the Feminization of Poverty and Social Exclusion in EuropePlanned activities
Activities currently under discussion:
- Poverty and social exclusion of older women, particularly issues relating to pensions, as a major contributing factor to the feminisation of poverty in later life.
- Poverty and social exclusion of undocumented migrants in the EU, issues relating to undocumented women.
- EWL report on the Beijing Platform for Action within the EU – to mark the 15th anniversary of the Action Plan adopted at the 4th World Conference on Women (1995). A chapter will be devoted to women and poverty (one of the 12 criteria areas of concern identified in the Beijing Platform for Action)
- A statement by the EWL on women, poverty and social exclusion in view of the EY2010.
- Joint policy paper (with Oxfam Genderworks) on the impact of the recession on women’s poverty in Europe (beginning of 2010)
- Ongoing throughout the year: raising the issue of women, poverty and social exclusion in its work on social policy and in the framework of its working group on women’s economic independence.
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