Pronouns: She/her
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. In this context, she has several functions: among others, she is a member of interdepartmental working groups on gender (-based violence). She is member of the Interministerial Conferences on Women's Rights. She represents Belgium in various international and European institutions, as EIGE’s expert forum, Equinet and COPA, the Council of Europe's monitoring body on the Istanbul Convention.She is responsible for the implementation of the national law “stop femicide”. She 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.
She is member of the Commission on Financial Assistance to Victims of Intentional Acts of Violence.