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Eight Member Cities Join Forces to Step Up Gender Equality at UN Women
27/03/2015
Various representatives of METROPOLIS member cities met in New York as part of the 59th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW59), organized by UN Women from 9 to 20 March.
METROPOLIS, together with Brussels and Barcelona, Organizes a Parallel Session at the international event of UN Women
27/02/2015
“Digital Urban Women: Digital Empowerment of Women for a True Urban Transformation”is the title of the good practices round table which METROPOLIS is organizing together with the Brussels-Capital Region and Barcelona City Council’s Department of Women and Civil Rights. The event, to be held on 11 March from 10 am to 1.30 pm in the Hotel One United Nations Plaza in New York, is part of the 59th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women.
The infringement of rights through sexual exploitation is discussed at Metropolis Women symposium
23/07/2014
The Metropolis Women International Network organized last Friday (June 13th), for the second time in Barcelona, a symposium that posits the inequality of women as the center of debate.
Enslaved women and girls live in your city. Let’s find a solution together!
20/05/2014
Our cities are home to a number of women that do not live there voluntarily: they have ended up there through deception or force by someone or through unwanted circumstances. Most of them are treated as an object of sexual exploitation.
21st-century slavery
Every 30 seconds, somewhere in the world, another child, another woman or another man becomes a victim of human trafficking. Trafficking in women is deemed to be the 21st-century slavery.
