International news
- Russian victims of domestic abuse forced to pay perpetrator’s fine
- Decriminalising the sex trade will not protect its workers from abuse
- Conflict-Displaced Ukrainians Surviving on Just USD 2.50 Per Day: IOM
- EWL Press Release
- I’m So Tired of Being Told that my Fat Body is Going to Kill Me
- Dear Sisters and Friends
- Girls in migration, why is Europe silent?
- International News 2016
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- International News 2013 - 2014
Contribution of a grouping of Feminist and Human Rights Organizations to the work of The Hague Conference on Private International Law regarding legal issues concerning international surrogacy conventions |
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Stop Surrogacy Now Statement We are women and men of diverse ethnic, religious, cultural, and socio-economic backgrounds from all regions of the world. We come together to voice our shared concern for women and children who are exploited through surrogacy contract pregnancy arrangements. |
EWL puts the issue of surrogacy on the European agenda More than 50 persons joined us at the Swedish Permanent Representation in Brussels to hear from surrogate mothers, doctors and persons born from surrogacy, in a documentary which investigates the reality of surrogacy in the United States, where the practice is legal. |
UN rights expert calls all States to establish a ‘Femicide Watch’ GENEVA (23 November 2015) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Dubravka Šimonović, urged today all States to focus on prevention of gender-related killing of women by establishing a 'Femicide Watch'. |
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PORN FREE The Swedish Women’s Lobby has launched the campaign #Pornfree in cooperation with Unizon and Roks. We demand that a governmental commission is assigned to examine the consequences of pornography and to investigate how the spread of pornography can be limited. We have presented a manifest for a #pornfree society together with our member organisations. Read the manifest here. |
Trouble and Strife |
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Bustle California Backs "Yes Means Yes" Sexual Consent Bill, Because "No Means No" Isn't Enough |
Optional Protocol to CEDAW Karen Tayag Vertido on using the Optional Protocol to CEDAW |
ISHR | International Service for Human Rights Special Rapporteur on violence against women calls on States to address socio-cultural factors |
The Irrawaddy Girl Power Rises in Burma |
The Observer The truth about women 'crying rape' |
Washington Post The saddest graph you’ll see today |