European Women’s Lobby (EWL)

Founded in 1990, the European Women’s Lobby (EWL) is the largest alliance of women’s non-governmental organisations in the European Union. The EWL works for the advancement of equality between women and men and for the achievement of parity democracy at all levels.
The EWL together with its member organisations throughout Europe therefore wants to contribute to European policies and to put pressure on European Union institutions and national governments and decision-makers to advance towards equality between women and men in all areas, including employment, the elimination of all forms of violence against women, the promotion of women in decision-making etc. The EWL also works for the diversity of women to be taken into account into national and European policies.
As of November 2008, the EWL comprises 30 national co ordinations in the 27 European Union countries and in the 3 countries in accession to the European Union and 20 European-wide member organisations. The EWL membership represents approximately 2000 direct member organisations throughout Europe.