Equinet - the European network of equality bodies - supports the European Women’s Lobby 50/50 Campaign "No Modern European Democracy without Gender Equality", which  was launched on 16.09.08 and will run until June 2009. The European wide campaign aims to increase the presence of women at the highest level of European politics and to encourage women and voters in general to cast their votes in the next European elections.

The Campaign is endorsed by almost 200 well known personalities across Europe such as European Commission President and Vice President, José Manuel Barroso and Margot Wallström, Nobel Price winner Orhan Pamuk and the former President of the European Parliament Simone Veil.