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FemCities

Website: http://www.femcities.at
Website offers information on women’s projects, a calendar of women related events, comprehensive media reports, culture and news about relevant political developments. An important feature is the extensive directory of contact persons and institutions concerned with such issues as equal opportunities, economy, politics or science.
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Young and Equal

In 2003, UNIFEM supported 17 young women and men from Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States-including the Balkans, Central Asia, and Afghanistan- to come to Bratislava, Slovakia to launch a regional youth network on gender. The network, called "Young and Equal" was launched with a mission to empower young people to actively participate in the shaping of a society free of gender discrimination. UNIFEM and the Association for Women's Rightsi in Development (AWID) will serve as members of the network's Steering Committee.
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Women's Issues Information Centre

Website: http://www.lygus.lt
The WIIC acts as a focal point on the pulse of women's issues in Lithuanian society, by acting as a catalyst on the most pressing problems facing women in the transitional post communist stage.
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Commission of the European Communities

Website: http://europa.eu.int/comm/index_en.htm
The European Commission embodies and upholds the general interest of the Union and is the driving force in the Union's institutional system. Its four main roles are to propose legislation to Parliament and the Council, to administer and implement Community policies, to enforce Community law (jointly with the Court of Justice) and to negotiate international agreements, mainly those relating to trade and cooperation.
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The Network of East-West Women

Website: http://www.neww.org.pl
NEWW is an NGO in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. With members in more than 30 countries NEWW is among the largest and most respected networks in CEE/NIS, and is a trusted source of expertise, resources and information about gender in democratizing societies. NEWW connects women's advocates in who work in partnership to promote women's rightsi and to strengthen women's role within civil society. NEWW members represent all strata of society - human rightsi activists, writers, students, journalists, lawyers, parliamentarians, professors, artists, union organizers, health care workers and feminist activists. NEWW's overarching goal is to support the formation of independent women's movements and to strengthen the capacities of women and women's NGOs to influence policyi regarding women's lives.
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The consequences of the sex industry in the European Union (draft report)

Marianne Eriksson
Marianne Eriksson on 7 May, 2005
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This European Parliament draft report to the vast expansion of the sex industry world wide; it highlights the sex industry's use of all types of information communication systems and emphasises link between the sex industry pornography and trafficking in women, prostitution and other violations women's human rightsi. The report calls for specific measures, such adoption of national ethical codes advertisement and the adoption European directive on gender equalityi the field of the media, advertising education. Unfortunately, the opposition this report was so strong that the European Parliament plenary did not adopt it.
 
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Report on Women in the New Information Society

Anna Karamanou
Anna Karamanou on 12 February, 2005
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The report on women in the new Information Society highlights that the public debate on the impact of the new technologies has so far ignored the gender dimension. It calls on measures intended to include women in all sectors of the new ICTi, to fully involve women in planning anddecision-making on policies and management and to encounter stereotyped attitudes to ICT in education and vocational training, etc.
 
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Women & Science: Statistics and Indicators

on 12 February, 2005
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Website contain indicators on the subject of women and science for the 25 EU Member States.
 
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She figures 2003

on 12 February, 2005
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The "She Figures 2003" report provides a detailed statistical analysis of women's participation in all aspects of science (education, employment, and research), existing gender differences across scientific fields and gender equalityi in setting the scientific agenda.
 
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