7th international EFJCA Conference, 6 and 7 October 2025, Heraklion (Greece)

Bio Marijke Weewauters

Marijke Weewauters is a federal civil servant and gender expert on equal opportunities policy for more than 30 years. She is the national strategy advisor and liaison officer of the Institute for the Equality for Women and Men (the Institute).

In this context, she has several functions: among others, she is a member of interdepartmental working groups on gender and gender-based violence. She is also a member of the Interministerial Conferences on Women's Rights and member of the Commission on Financial Assistance to Victims of Intentional Acts of Violence.

She represents Belgium in various international and European institutions such as EIGE’s expert forum, Equinet, COPA, the Council of Europe's monitoring body on the Istanbul Convention and the European network on prevention of genderbased violence.

As liaison officer, she maintains close relations with civil society and national and international stakeholders. She is responsible for the implementation of the national law “stop femicide”.

Marijke Weewauters was Belgian negotiator for the session of the International Labour Conference on ILO Convention 190 and several times Belgian representative in the CSW session and CEDAW hearings.