In the last decade, North Macedonia has made progresses regarding gender equality and women's rights. The country ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and the Optional Protocol in 1994. In 2018, the Council of Europe’s (CoE) Istanbul Convention on Preventing and Combating violence against Women was ratified. [...]
“For me, the change begins when we begin to love ourselves, to be strong, to be independent", the words of Liliana resonate all the way from Colombia to the rest of the world. Awareness is like a pair of new glasses you cannot take off, once we see new possibilities, there is no turning back, [...]
We present you a collection of creative pieces which emerged as the final outcomes of a participatory storytelling exercise to evaluate the Women2030 program. The purpose of this evaluation was to assess the impact of the Women2030 program and, in the same breath, celebrate all the partners, organizations and communities that took part in it [...]
by Rose Heffernan This year’s Commission on the Status of Women (CSW65) had the priority theme of ‘women’s full and effective participation and decision-making in public life, as well as the elimination of violence, for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls.’ As we have engaged in the CSW in previous years, [...]
On the 4th and 5th of March 2021, Women2030 coalition and country partners gathered virtually to celebrate the end of the Women2030 programme which was funded in the last 5 years by the European Commission via the International Partnerships for the EU (INTPA). The women2030 program was part of efforts in the drive towards adopting [...]
A year ago, just before the CSW, the corona pandemic changed everything. But now we have found new ways of movement building. So, we can connect virtually from all over the world to CSW65. In addition to the negotiations, in which government delegations have discussions on what it takes to improve gender equality, a lot [...]
Together with ARUWE, our partner organisation in Uganda, five organisations have been awarded €1000 each to support their projects on gender equality. Under our partnership programme with the European Commission, Women2030, we selected organisations based on their local initiatives on gender and Sustainable DevelopmentGoals (SDG’s). Each of the organisations that received the grants took part in training [...]
The Women2030 programme is led by a coalition of 4 women’s rights and gender equality organisations (WECF, APWLD, GFC, WEP). Our goal is to build capacity of women's and gender civil society organisations (CSOs) and engage them in the policy processes of Agenda2030, its corresponding Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement on climate [...]
Over 350 lesbians* bringing #LesbianGenius to the world, gathered for 3 days in a Soviet era Turist hotel, guarded like a fortress by police and National Guard, where the halls were renamed for three days honouring fierce feminists. The second European Lesbian * Conference (EL * C) took place in April in Kiev, Ukraine. It [...]
On the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, we awarded Gender Just Climate Solutions Winners at the climate negotiations in Katowice, Poland Yesterday, on the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, we held our inagural Gender Just Climate Solutions Award and publication launch at the climate negotiations in Katowice, [...]
