women's empowerment in an expanding Europe
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Reisen, Mirjam van
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- digitaal
- Thesaurus
- empowerment, recht, landen in transitie, armoede, emancipatie, EU-landen, statistiek
- Description
- Gender inequality and poverty are pressing issues in most countries across Central and Eastern Europe. The changing relationship between the European Union (EU) and these countries has a considerable effect on them. Gender equality and poverty eradication could be advanced if the EU maintained a commitment to these in its policies and instruments. However, it fails to do so. While the legal framework does feature clear commitments to poverty eradication and gender equality, specific policy instruments and strategies do not carry this through. The report concludes that, for the EU to be a socially responsible global actor, to avoid creating new divisions on the European continent and to contribute to achieving the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs), it must significantly increase its efforts to support gender equality and poverty eradication in its assistance to this region.