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2 May, 2022
In 25 years, the global percentage of women in parliament has doubled, from 11.3% to 24% from 1995 to 2020 (Interparliamentary Union, 2021, p.1). In the Latin American region, from 1995 to October 2019, their share of the Lower or Single House increased from 10.6% to 27.9% (Llanos, 2019, p.7). These advances are part of a series of gradual processes of conquest of political citizenship for women to elect and be elected.
26 April, 2022
EUROsociAL+ technical support action for INMUJERES in Uruguay
22 April, 2022
As part of the International Girls in ICT Day, the Gender Equality Policies area of EUROsociAL+, coordinated by Expertise France, interviewed Andrea Giraldo Sevilla, an expert conducting a project to promote access to science and technology to girls and adolescents with the government of Uruguay and the Uruguayan Agency for International Cooperation (AUCI).
18 April, 2022
Article by Paolo Raciti and Paloma Vivaldi Vera, CISP (Comitato Internazionale per lo Sviluppo dei Popoli) EUROsociAL+ expert
13 April, 2022
The Gender Equality Policies Area of the EU EUROsociAL+ Programme, coordinated by Expertise France, supports actions to strengthen Parity Democracy and political representation of women in Argentina from the Executive and Legislative Powers.
31 March, 2022
During the post-pandemic recovery of cities in Latin America, a territorial approach must be taken to policy implementation, bringing gender equality to daily life. At EUROsociAL+ we support sustainable urban development strategies to make it happen.
9 March, 2022
The EU EUROsociAL+ Programme works to counter the impact of corrupt public officials on women and girls in Latin America. As a tribute to the survivors of these corrupt practices, we have heard their stories through art as a means to transform perceptions, as a vehicle to generate awareness and social transformation. The experience is presented to mark International Women's Day.
14 February, 2022
Within the framework of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we interview Andrea Giraldo Sevilla, Dominique Ferretti and Leonardo Espinosa Leal, experts from EUROsociAL+ who are conducting a study on gender gaps in the Information and Communication Technologies sector in the Dominican Republic.
7 January, 2022
The Costa Rican Public Defender's Office has launched the “Comprehensive approach to violence against women: construction of new masculinities in men facing criminal proceedings for violence against women” project in association with the European Union’s EUROsociAL+ Programme and the technical assistance of the authors of this article, which summarises the legal, institutional and conceptual framework of the project and describes the Contexto–Costa Rica Programme that is being developed as its main deliverable.
5 January, 2022
We interviewed Jorge Bermúdez, Comptroller General of the Republic of Chile