On 5–6 August 2025, women’s rights organisations from across Europe met in Stockholm to launch MOTERIS, a new EU-co-funded initiative to monitor and protect women’s civic spaces across the EU.
Over the next two years, 28 civil society actors in 14 Member States will be supported to strengthen advocacy, safety, and organisational resilience in the face of growing restrictions and backlash against women’s rights.
The project is coordinated by the Swedish Women’s Lobby in close partnership with the European Network of Migrant Women, the Hungarian Women’s Lobby, the Coordination Française pour le Lobby Européen des Femmes (CLEF), and the Lithuanian Women’s Lobby. Together, these partners bring a wealth of national and EU-level expertise to address a pressing challenge: the shrinking civic space for women’s rights organisations and defenders.
