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GREVIO: Experts call on States to bridge the gap of impunity for violence against women across the world

On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, international and regional experts on violence against women and women's rights have issued a joint statement calling on States to bridge the gap of impunity for violence against women and girls across the world. Read more here.

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Gender Equality Index 2022: Gender Equality under Threat, Specific Groups Hardest Hit

The freshly launched Gender Equality Index 2022 reveals that progress continues at a snails' pace, with a mere 0.6-point increase since last year's edition. As a result, the EU average score now stands at 68.6 out of 100 points, only 5.5 points higher than in 2010.EIGE Director, Carlien Scheele said

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EIGE Orange the World 2022

EIGE, the European Institute for gender equality, took part in Orange the World, the campaign against violence toward women and girls promoted by ONU since 2008.Orange The World consists in 16-days of activism against gender-based violence established by the United Nations Secretary General. Every

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UCCGS Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professorship Lecture: Michaelmas 2022

On Monday 7 November Professor Cynthia Enloe, Research Professor, Clark University, held the UCCGS Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professorship Lecture on Making Feminist Sense of the Ukraine War at the Yusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College, Cambridge.The sheer brutality of the Russia

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GENDER-NET Plus presents “Integrating Gender Analysis Into Research” (Paris, 16-17 Nov 2022)

16.11.2022

The scientific community of the GENDER-NET Plus project gathered on November 16-17, 2022 to discuss approaches to best incorporate sex, gender and intersectional analysis. Health, social sciences and humanities researchers, from across Europe, Canada and Israel, addressed the issue in 6 thematic

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