Gender equality

The U.N. Women Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia has launched its new creative writing initiative, which aims to change the way societies think of women's and girls' roles in public by rewriting 28 fairy tales in an event in Istanbul.

A new three-year project aiming to support civil society on women's rights in Turkey has kicked off in an event bringing together the representatives of the European Union Delegation to Turkey, U.N. Women, civil society, government representatives and other stakeholders in the capital Ankara.

Ljubljana – The government has received a report by the Council of Europe’s group of experts on Slovenia’s implementation of the Istanbul Convention. The group believes that the measures taken in Slovenia do not cover all types of violence as defined in the convention. Slovenia needs to respond to all forms of violence in a holistic way, the experts said.

The international distinction came about after the singer became the ambassador of Greece and Cyprus in Spotify’s global campaign on gender equality

Ladies in Bulgaria live longer, but their pensions are lower than those of men

"I want to draw your attention to the Polish government's lack of cooperation with the Commission in checking whether the resolutions adopted in Poland concerning so-called 'zones free of LGBT ideology' are compatible with EU law," wrote Helena Dalli, European commissioner for equality, in the letter sent to Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau.

Daily Milliyet has become the only media organization that has taken part in an equality forum that guides U.N. Women's gender equality efforts, vowing to work towards the issue in the next five years.

"Discrimination works like a poison," she says, alluding to her own experiences as a teacher in Hungary, when she was struck by the racist and sexist remarks directed to Roma or half-black students by fellow classmates.

"It was a real challenge learning how to handle it," the energetic forty-something woman admits.

Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of Serbia and the President of the Coordination Body for Gender Equality, Zorana Mihajlovi, said that today in Paris.

Recent studies show that despite all the effort, gender equality in the workplace is not only not advancing but also decreasing. This situation has been, indeed, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic.