Legislative response to gender-based violence

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Violence against women is particularly alarming, as one in three women have been subjected to physical or sexual violence. In this article, lawyer Aikaterini Georgiadou provides an unparalleled critical review of the legislative framework for gender-based violence in Greece. She examines the provisions of the Istanbul Convention and the severe concerns reflected in GREVIO's evaluation report about the implementation of the Convention in Greece. Furthermore, she focuses in particular on the newly adopted EU Directive on combating violence against women, which Member States are obliged to transpose into their national law within three years.
By Ekaterini Georgiadou
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European Union & Gender

On 1 May, 2014 Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia celebrated  the 10th anniversary of their accession to the European Union. Despite severe changes within the EU and multiple crises the majority of Poles, Czechs and Slovaks positively assess the European integration. Therefore, our office launched a project aimed at assessing 10 years of the Polish, Czech and Slovakian membership in the EU from a gender perspective. Gender experts from each country have explored to what extent hopes and expectations related to the European integration have been met and how the EU accession influenced the situation of women and men, as well as what contribution have  female MEPs from Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia made in years 2004-2014.

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Women CSO leaders for systemic change

Study
This study aims to take stock of the progress of the last decade, as well as identify remaining barriers and new opportunities for women CSO leaders in achieving systemic change in Europe. The key findings indicate a concerning trend of burnout among women leaders in the CSO sector, hindering their efforts to drive systemic change.
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Sexual and Reproductive Rights

Women’s bodies have regularly been – and still are – the central target of conservative and fundamentalist ideology and praxis. Although the individual right to self-determination has always been shaped by social and cultural norms and legal frameworks, it is currently being determined more than ever by reproductive technologies and medical issues.

Sexual and Reproductive Rights

Women’s bodies have regularly been – and still are – the central target of conservative and fundamentalist ideology and praxis. This essay provides analytical background information for critical and controversial debates and motivation to explore political intervention.

Gender Democracy

The issues addressed by feminist movements are all political. Reproductive and sexual rights, violence against women, including sexual violence, sexism in media and advertisements, gender stereotypes, unpaid female work, trafficking of women, herstory – these are some of the topics and issues that appeared in public debate after 1989 thanks to feminists. Our analyses and publications, conferences and debates, develop and strengthen feminist discourse in Central and Eastern Europe.

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