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Women’s Platform
Women’s Platform connects the women’s sector in Northern Ireland to international networks and human rights mechanisms. Our role is to amplify the voices of women and girls in Northern Ireland at the international level, including at the UN. Locally, we build capacity on international human rights standards to help women and girls in Northern Ireland achieve equality, diversity and full participation in decision making.
Our Purpose
It's our story and yours
Women’s Platform is a feminist membership organisation working to achieve gender equality for women and girls in Northern Ireland and make their voices heard in Northern Ireland heard at national and international level.
Our vision is of a Northern Ireland where women and girls, in all our diversity, can live our lives as we choose, in safety and with dignity, free from misogynistic and patriarchal pressures and stereotypes, and supported by policies that meet our needs.
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Ending violence against women and girls: Learning from Europe
Thursday 28 November 2024, 6.30-7.30pm GMT / 7.30-8.30pm CET
Violence against women and girls is an urgent priority across the world. In Northern Ireland, the first Ending Violence against Women and Girls strategy focuses on changing cultural norms, as well as protecting women and girls more effectively. The EU earlier this year launched a new Directive on violence against women and girls, which sets minimum standards for all 27 EU member states. This webinar will hear from the WAVE Network on how the Directive can change policy, and from Women’s Aid Federation NI on what the priorities for the new strategy are. There will also be discussion on what we can learn from the processes that led to these new frameworks.
Join us to share perspectives on what we can learn from each other, and how to prioritise ending violence against women and girls!
Speakers:
Eliana Jimeno, Women Against Violence Europe (WAVE)
Sonya McMullan, Women’s Aid NI
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Ending violence against women and girls: What works?
Violence against women and girls is so commonplace as to be normalised, in NI and across Europe. The EU has a new Directive on violence against women and girls, and in Northern Ireland, the first Ending Violence against Women and Girls strategy aims to take joint action across sectors to turn these trends. This webinar will hear from experts in the sector on priorities to secure meaningful change, and will also explore how the EU Directive has been received across member states.
Join us to share perspectives on what we can learn from each other, and how to prioritise ending violence against women and girls!
Speakers:
Sonya McMullan, Women’s Aid NI
Irene Rosales, European Women’s Lobby
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