EU consultation: Gender Equality policy remains necessary The EU commission consultated 5000 EU-protagonists, ranging from NGOs, universities, politicians and other individuals on their views on EU Gender Equality policy.
Gender Equality Index 2015 now accessable The Gender Equality Index 2015 uses data from the years 2005, 2010 and 2012 and thus gives an indication about developing trends concerning the advancement of gender equality in all of the EU Member States.
Beijing +20 from the perspective of a Czech politician Although Michaela Marksová Tominová studied natural sciences, she has long been engaged with the issue of gender equality. This is the politicians view on the implementation of Beijing +20 in the Czech Republic
European Ministers: We need a new strategy for equality between men and women In an open letter to European commissioner Věra Jourová, Ministers for justice, women's affairs or equal opportunities from 20 European countries called for a new equality strategy.
Romani women can be brokers of change At this year’s 59th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in New York, Martina Horváthová presented a report on the situation of Romani women in the Czech Republic. By Martina Horváthová and Pavla Frýdlová
Luxemburg Prime Minister first EU leader in same-sex marriage Since his marriage in May 2015, Luxemburg PM Xavier Bettel is the first EU head of state in a same-sex marriage.
My right to question inequality As Anna Argashvili recalls her childhood, she rememers the roles available to women in post-Soviet Georgia, traces the first instances of protest and resistance and highlights the current struggles of human rights activist in the region. By Anna Arganashvili
Gender Equality Index update in June 2015 The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) will publish it's updated Gender Equality Index (eng) on 25 June 2015 in Brussels.
Fake choice: legal gender recognition at the expense of irreversible sterilization Twenty years have passed since the adoption of Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. The countries that signed this document are summarizing the achieved progress and discuss the need for systemic changes, which will make these processes irreversible. At the same time, even today integration of specific groups into the general context of gender equality remains problematic. Transgender persons represent one of such groups, which require innovative approach and different attitudes due to the complete invisibility and specific needs that they have. By Eka Aghdgomelashvili
We shall be justice! "We shall be justice!" said Charlotte Bunch, at the opening of the Women’s Court in Sarajevo which represents an alternative model of transitional justice which introduces a gender perspective into existing mechanisms of attainment of justice, this time based on feminist foundations. By Paula Petričević