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Women on danube as agents of change (case of ukraine )

Women on danube as agents of change (case of ukraine ). Ulm, 31 August, 2010. Gender specific legislative documents:. The Law on Ensuring Equal Rights and Opportunities for Men and Women (2005)

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Women on danube as agents of change (case of ukraine )

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  1. Women on danube as agents of change (case of ukraine) Ulm, 31 August, 2010

  2. Gender specific legislative documents: • The Law on Ensuring Equal Rights and Opportunities for Men and Women (2005) • Decree on Adoption of the State Program of Ensuring Gender Equality in Ukrainian Society for 2006-2010

  3. Executive power - national mechanisms: • The Gender Equality Policy is a prerogative of the Ministry of Affairs of Family, Youth and Sports.

  4. Who are these agents of change?

  5. Kateryna levchenko

  6. President of the International women’s Rights Center “La Strada-Ukraine”, Member of the Ukrainian Parliament (2006-2007), PhD in Philosophy (1993) , Doctor of Law (2004), Counselor of the Ministry of Interior of Ukraine on Human Rights and Gender Issues (2005-2006, 2008 – 2010)

  7. Legislative initiatives:

  8. lobby of ratification of the CE Convention on Actions Against Trafficking in Human Beings; introduction of amendments to the law on prevention domestic violence; introduction of amendments to the law on children rights protection; introduction of amendments to the Law on promoting gender equality; introductionoftheResolutionof PA OSCE onstrengtheningofcounteractionoftraffickinginpersonsinthe OSCE memberstatesarea(part of the Kiev Resolution, July, 2007) etc.

  9. Legal Researches:

  10. Elaboration of Comments to Law of Ukraine “On Equal Rights and Opportunities of Women and Men”; The problem of Sexual harassment in Ukraine (2008); Gender analyses of Ukrainian Laws (2007-2008) for UNDP and the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine; Elaboration of Comments to the Article 149 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (2007)

  11. author of more then two hundred articles and books on gender problems, domestic violence, prevention trafficking in human beings and human rights protection

  12. Among them: • the Manual for teachers “Prevention the trafficking in women” (together with the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, 2000) • the Manual for the police “The activity of the Law Enforcement on the Combating and Prevention the Trafficking of Human Beings” together with the National University of the Internal Affairs, Kharkiv, 2001

  13. Among them: • The Ukrainian National Report (the Sixth) about Implementation in Ukraine The UN Convention On Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, 2001 • Manual: Public Councils of Humans Rights: the main areas and problems of activity, 2007 • Manual: Counteraction of child labour exploitation, 2007

  14. leader

  15. activist

  16. teacher

  17. Olena semikolenova

  18. PhD in philology, docent of the Department of Inter-Lingual Communications and Journalism of Taurida National University named after V.I. Vernadskiithe senior fellow of Crimean Methodological and research Center of Educational ManagementDirector of the NGO Women’s Initiative Center

  19. Gender education

  20. Since 1997 till present she has been working in the Empowering Education program, is one of the authors of the Empowering Education textbooks (1st edition 1999; 2nd edition 2002). She has been coordinating the Empowering Education program implemented in Crimean secondary schools as well as in Journalism Department of Taurida National University.

  21. Gender in education

  22. She held trainings for the Empowering Education program participants in Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Moldova, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan.

  23. The following scientific problems are being research:

  24. Defining of gender component at different levels of language and speech: in phonetics, lexics, phraseology, morphology, syntaxes;Analysis of gender stereotypes in Ukrainian media; Gender expertise of Ukrainian textbooks;Implementing of gender component in curricula of secondary and higher schools.

  25. leader

  26. activist

  27. teacher

  28. Thank you for your attention!

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