{"id":51650,"date":"2014-03-08T08:30:22","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T07:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cesie.org\/news-4\/stop-gender-violence-cesie-in-action\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T16:16:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T14:16:48","slug":"stop-gender-violence-cesie-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cesie.org\/en\/news\/stop-gender-violence-cesie-in-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop gender violence \u2013 CESIE in action!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

International Women\u2019s Day is celebrated globally every year on 8th<\/sup> March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This day was originally established to honour the movement for women\u2019s civil and social rights.  Voting Rights Claims, the right to exercise a public function, the rights to work, to vocational training and to an end to discrimination on the job are the basic elements of the first women\u2019s movements of the twentieth century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, these issues are proposed to give a greater impetus to the debate on gender equality, protection of rights against all forms of discrimination and violence, the role of women in society, in the family and at work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many barriers to women\u2019s emancipation have been broken down but there is still a long way to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the most recent United Nations estimates, at the political level, women are still underrepresented in national parliaments and even within the ministerial team of national governments, mainly covering positions in the social sector (education and health).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even in the economic and social fields, there is still a problem concerning the low levels of female labour force participation, gender discrimination in the workplace, vulnerable works and violence against women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, the figures on violence against women are still worrying, as stated in the report recently published by the European Agency for fundamental rights \u201cViolence against women: an EU-wide survey\u201d<\/a>. The report describes the main results issued from a survey based on a sample of 42.000 women from the 28 EU Member States.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How does CESIE contribute?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our current projects targeting women:<\/p>\n\n\n\n