24th WAVE Conference: Women’s specialist services as pillars of peace in times of crisis and beyond
Registration for the 24th WAVE Conference is now open. Please register here until 30th September. The 2022 WAVE Conference ‘Women’s specialist services as pillars of peace in times of crisis and beyond’ will take place this year in Prague, Czech…
WAVE celebrates the Istanbul Convention and reaffirms its commitment to advance women human’s rights
On 1 August 2014, the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence, also known as the Istanbul Convention, came into force. As the WAVE Country Report 2021 reiterates, the Istanbul Convention remains the…
New methodology to support CSOs in advocating for the Istanbul Convention
In order to support civil society organisations (CSOs) in promoting the principles, objectives, and provisions of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (Istanbul Convention), Women Against Violence Europe (WAVE) Network together with…
WAVE Newsletter May-June 2022
The WAVE Newsletter May-June 2022 is out now! The bi-monthly Newsletter by the WAVE Network covers upcoming events, WAVE news and international news. For the WAVE Newsletter May-June 2022, please click here.
Call for WAVE Youth Ambassadors 2023/2024
We are happy to announce that we are looking for the 3rd generation of WAVE Youth Ambassadors! Since October 2018, the WAVE Youth Ambassadors initiative aims to provide a platform to youth activists across Europe to encourage youth participation, youth…
WAVE statement on the pushback against Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights – SCOTUS overturn of Roe v. Wade.
On 24 June 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) officially overturned the 1973 landmark legal decision of Roe v. Wade[1], banning abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy and thus ending 50 years of federal abortion rights. The…
WAVE-PROSPERA Press Release on the draft EU Directive on Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence
Feminist Funds and Women Specialist Services launch a call to action to Members of the European Parliament to strengthen the proposed draft EU Directive on combating GBV against women & girls PROSPERA Network of Women’s Funds Europe (WFE) and the Women Against…
CALL FOR YOUTH ACTIVISTS from Western Balkans and Turkey
Let´s create a digital campaign! We are looking for 5 youth activists from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Kosovo *, Serbia, and Turkey to work with WAVE Youth Ambassadors during June and July 2022 on spreading effective and…
