KARAT Coalition

The e-toolkit on the Optional Protocol to CEDAW is already available at: www.karat.org/op_cedaw

The information provided in the toolkit is also available in the following languages:

Armenian: on the website of Women's Rights Center

Azerbaijani: here

Georgian: here

Romanian: here

Russian: here and on the website Human Rights in Tajikistan
Tajik: here (brochure on CEDAW and OP-CEDAW)

Ukrainian: here and on the website of Ukrainian Women's Fund

Uzbek: here

2009.12.10

Training on the OP CEDAW – Call for applications

KARAT Coalition, together with project partners, invites applications for participation in the training on the Optional Protocol to CEDAW convention which will take place in Warsaw, Poland, on 15-18 September 2009.

The training is organized jointly by KARAT Coalition and IWRAW Asia Pacific and is part of the project “Building towards Eastern European and Central Asia NGO Coalition on Optional Protocol to CEDAW” implemented by KARAT Coalition and supported by OXFAM Novib.

The training is intended for women’s rights activists and lawyers recommended by women’s NGOs from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. The participation of women from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan is organized by Women’s Support Center and supported by HIVOS.

Full text of the call in English
Full text of the call in Russian
Full text of the call in Azerbaijani
Application form in English
Application form in Russian

Applicants are requested to submit a completed application form, a CV and the recommendation letter from women’s NGO no later than 25^th May 2009 to:

Armenia: Women’s Rights Center, susanna@wrcorg.am
Azerbaijan: Azerbaijan Gender Association “Symmetry”, gmamedova@gmail.com
Tajikistan: Public Foundation “Panorama”, rita_mamedova@mail.ru
Uzbekistan: “Generation of the Future”, lkhamzayeva@mail.ru
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan: Women’s Support Center in Kyrgyzstan, munarabek@gmail.com

For more information please write to Aleksandra Solik aleksandra.solik@karat.org.pl

2009.05.04

New partners in the project

The project commission together with the Board of KARAT Coalition selected the following organizations from among the responses to the call for project partners:

Women’s Rights Center, Armenia
Azerbaijan Gender Association “Symmetry”
Public Foundation “Panorama”, Tajikistan
Generation of the Future, Uzbekistan

More information about the project partners

2009.03.02

Trainings on Optional Protocol to CEDAW convention in Ukraine

“Application of CEDAW and the optional protocol to it as the efficient tool to overcome displays of discrimination in Ukraine” is a title of two trainings organized in Ukraine respectively on 9 and 13 October 2008 by the Ministry of Ukraine for Family, Youth and Sports, Indiana University Parliamentary Development Project and the Ukrainian Women’s Fund (the project partner of KARAT Coalition).

The first training gathered more than 40 persons from all the regions of Ukraine among them: the heads and deputy heads of regional departments responsible for gender policy; gender advisors to governors and heads of regional administrations (among them members of women’s NGOs); representatives of gender resource centers in the regions, etc. The participants’ active interest in the trainings (indicated by the discussion, questions and comments) pointed to the great need for addressing the topic. According to them the most important gains from the training was their improved understanding of how to apply the CEDAW Convention and its Optional Protocol to the cases they deal with as part of their work and how to transfer the texts of official documents into the popular language.

They noted, however, that one-day training was not sufficient for addressing the issue and that more trainings would be needed for practitioners working at the local level who still lack knowledge and skills related to CEDAW.

The second training was addressed to gender focal points of Verhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament) committee and of the Ministries of Ukraine.

2008-10-22

IWRAW Asia Pacific resource guide on OP CEDAW 'Our Rights Are Not Optional' already available in Russian:

Наши права не факультативны!

Защита прав, предусмотренных Конвенцией по ликвидации всех форм дискриминации в отношении женщин, при помощи Факультативного протокола к ней

Наши права не факультативны!

2008-10-10