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A U.K. labor union plans to bring a barrage of cases that will test the significance for female workers of a recent European Court of Justice decision. Advocates hope it will ease the penalty for taking time out of the paid work force.
Germany expects 3 million soccer fans during the World Cup tournament over the next month. That has provoked concern about the trafficking of women into the country, which legalized prostitution in 2002.
The untold stories of everyday women in the former Soviet bloc are being brought out from behind the curtain of obscurity. A women’s oral history project has been going on for 10 years and spans at least eight countries.
Last week thousands visited the field in Bosnia and Herzegovina where husbands, sons and brothers were killed in the largest European genocide since World War II. Now the women of Srebrenica go back to making life’s work out of devastation.
A Czech initiative to study schoolbooks for gender bias wrapped up late last year. Activists see the government effort as a step in the right direction. Seventh in a series on women and education.
As the May deadline for the Czech Republic’s European Union entry approaches, the issue of girls and prostitution along the border between Germany and the Czech Republic has become a source of controversy.
Women Without Borders opens today its first international conference in Vienna. Focusing on women from post-conflict countries, planners hope the two-day meeting will give participants strength in numbers and fortify democracy around the world.
Roma women are banding together to fight the triple bias that increases their rates of poverty and shortens their life span by as much as 17 years. The new organization of Roma women is the first to involve representatives from across Europe.