KARAT has a pleasure to announce its new Project within its Women’s Human Rights Program. The Project is related to the CEDAW reporting process in Poland as the government is due to be reviewed in 2012. The Project includes production of the Shadow Report in coalition with national women’s rights organizations and advocacy for the priority critical women’s rights issues in Poland (e.g. adoption of parity and anti-discrimination act, reproductive rights). The Project also aims at assessing women’s access to justice and eliminating existing barriers that hamper litigation of rights.
The Project is funded by Open Society Institute - Budapest.
For more information contact Magda Pochec at magda.pochec@karat.org.pl
*Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
On 1-3 July, European Consultation on the implementation of CEDAW Concluding Observations (COs) organized by IWRAW Asia Pacific in cooperation with KARAT and WIDE took place in Warsaw, Poland. During this 3-day strategic meeting, women’s rights advocates from EU member states, CEE countries and Central Asia shared strategies on how to use COs to keep the governments accountable for complying with the obligation to fully implement CEDAW Convention at national level. The report from the meeting is coming soon. It will be available on KARAT’s website by mid August.
For more information contact Aleksandra Solik at aleksandra.solik@karat.org.pl or Magda Pochec at magda.pochec@karat.org.pl
The photo exhibition „Through Their Eyes, Through Ours” has been presented during the WIDE Annual Conference “Migration in the context of globalization. Women‟s human rights at risk” and also during the General Assembly of KARAT Coalition in Bucharest, Romania. The events took place between the 3rd and the 7th of June.
Enjoy your reading and have a nice summertime!
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KARAT Coalition, One World Action and Polish Humanitarian Action would like to invite you for the debate "East and South. Through their eyes, through ours." accompanied by two exhibitions presenting situation of women in refugees camps in Tanzania and socio-economic situation of women in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The event will take place on Thursday, May 13, 2010, between 6:30pm - 8:30pm in Nowy Wspaniały Świat in Warsaw (Nowy Świat 63)..jpg)
“The Festiwal of Adventure Mandragon: Asia and Ocenia between sunrise and sunset” will take a place on 23-25 of April in Łowicka Center (ul. Łowicka 21) in Warsaw. The program of the festival include: movie and slide shows, concerts, presentation of martial arts, dance shows, tasting of oriental cuisines, photoexhibitions and also panel discussions with travelers, authors of reportages (i.e. Jacek Hugo-Bader, Max Cegielski and Piotr Balcerowicz).
The monograph The European Feminist Forum. A herstory (2004-2008) was written by six European Feminists of different backgrounds, cultures, countries or who tried to construct a feminist vision for a social, economic and political justice in Europe. The main conclusion from the EFF experience is that there is no one European feminism but a plurivocality of European women’s voices that are taking up feminism in different themes and activities.KARAT was actively involved in EFF since its beginning and contributed to writing its herstory.
The publication is available HERE
KARAT, as a representative of Clean Clothes Polska, is involved in Gender Working Group in CCC. Recently developed CCC Gender Policy Statement is available here
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