Showing posts with label women. Show all posts
Showing posts with label women. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Sex Slavery from the Inside: a documentary on human trafficking
reporter: what thoughts crossed your mind while you were there? (she means where she was kept in captivity)
Jenea: I have the same thoughts now: it would have been better for me not to be born...
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Roma women urge European governments to respect their human rights
Athens, 12.01.2010 – The increased and alarming human rights violations against Romani women and ways of ensuring full enjoyment of their rights topped the agenda of a two-day conference of Roma women, which ended today in Athens.
In a final declaration of the conference, the participants unanimously called on European governments to uphold their obligations and ensure that Romani women enjoy their fundamental rights, to put an end to a climate of impunity around atrocious abuses of their rights, to take unequivocal measures to punish perpetrators and compensate Romani women victims.
Romani women also urged the governments of European countries, where forced sterilisation is an ongoing practice, to take active measures to compensate the victims, sanction perpetrators and initiate state medical reform in the area of patients’ rights.
The conference’s conclusions stressed the need to prevent de facto segregation in housing and education, while promoting the principles of equality and integration.
Participants also encouraged Roma activists and human rights communities to actively engage with Roma communities to raise awareness on their human rights and facilitate access to public services and law enforcement mechanisms.
The declaration invites the governments to take steps to monitor and evaluate the situation of Romani women at national level through developing specific methodologies for data collection based on gender and ethnicity as a basis for targeted and comprehensive measures including all areas of life.
Finally, participating Roma women discussed the negative perceptions of Roma women in the media and called on international organizations to support Roma journalism in order to facilitate a learning process with mainstream journalists about Romani women’s realities and promote an objective journalism.
The conclusions of the conference, organized by the Council of Europe, the Greek Ministry of Interior, Decentralization and E-Government, the Greek Inter-Municipal Rom Network (ROM Network) and the International Roma Women’s Network (IRWN),will be available on the Council of Europe website shortly.
Finland will host the next conference of Roma women in 2011.
In a final declaration of the conference, the participants unanimously called on European governments to uphold their obligations and ensure that Romani women enjoy their fundamental rights, to put an end to a climate of impunity around atrocious abuses of their rights, to take unequivocal measures to punish perpetrators and compensate Romani women victims.
Romani women also urged the governments of European countries, where forced sterilisation is an ongoing practice, to take active measures to compensate the victims, sanction perpetrators and initiate state medical reform in the area of patients’ rights.
The conference’s conclusions stressed the need to prevent de facto segregation in housing and education, while promoting the principles of equality and integration.
Participants also encouraged Roma activists and human rights communities to actively engage with Roma communities to raise awareness on their human rights and facilitate access to public services and law enforcement mechanisms.
The declaration invites the governments to take steps to monitor and evaluate the situation of Romani women at national level through developing specific methodologies for data collection based on gender and ethnicity as a basis for targeted and comprehensive measures including all areas of life.
Finally, participating Roma women discussed the negative perceptions of Roma women in the media and called on international organizations to support Roma journalism in order to facilitate a learning process with mainstream journalists about Romani women’s realities and promote an objective journalism.
The conclusions of the conference, organized by the Council of Europe, the Greek Ministry of Interior, Decentralization and E-Government, the Greek Inter-Municipal Rom Network (ROM Network) and the International Roma Women’s Network (IRWN),will be available on the Council of Europe website shortly.
Finland will host the next conference of Roma women in 2011.
Friday, May 1, 2009
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
half of the team confined to the bench
Strasbourg, 05.03.2009 – “Europe cannot play and win with half of the team confined to the bench”, said Terry Davis, the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, speaking on the publication of a report on the participation of women in public decision making in Europe.
“Although there is some progress, the current situation is unfair, unintelligent and ineffective. Gender inequality is detrimental to political, social and economic development. That is why the Council of Europe member states should do more to promote greater participation of women in decision making bodies”, added Terry Davis.
The report is being published today, a few days before International Women’s Day on 8 March. It shows that the average number of women ministers is 28.6% and the average representation of women in national parliaments is 21.7%. There has been some progress since 2005, when only 19.9% of ministers were women, but representation in national parliaments has remained the same. These figures are far from the 40% minimum recommended by the organisation.
The data have been collected in order to monitor the implementation of a 2003 Recommendation of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe which set this 40% minimum in public decision making bodies for both men and women. This text contains a number of guidelines to assist member states in promoting an increased participation of women in decision-making.
The report contains data from 42 of the 47 members States of the Council of Europe on national and regional parliaments, national, regional and local governments, supreme and constitutional courts, the diplomatic service and Council of Europe´s bodies. It follows a similar report in 2005 with data from 39 countries.
The report, “Sex-disaggregated statistics on the participation of women and men in political and public decision making in the Council of Europe member states”, depicts the situation as of 1 September 2008. Its findings include:
· Only three member states have reached the recommended minimum of 40% of women in their national parliament: Sweden (46%), Finland (41.5%) and the Netherlands (41.3%). Belgium (37.3%), Denmark (38%) and Norway (37.9%) are close to reaching the required minimum.
· Finland and Spain exceed 50% participation of women in the composition of their national governments. Two women have been elected Heads of State – in Finland and Ireland -, and another two Heads of Government – in Germany and Ukraine -. In five countries there are no women ministers.
· Only 10.2 % of the mayors are women, Russia being the country with a highest proportion of women in this post (29.5%). 24% of municipal councillors are women. 27.6 % of the judges in Supreme Courts and 20.3% of the judges in constitutional courts are women.
“Although there is some progress, the current situation is unfair, unintelligent and ineffective. Gender inequality is detrimental to political, social and economic development. That is why the Council of Europe member states should do more to promote greater participation of women in decision making bodies”, added Terry Davis.
The report is being published today, a few days before International Women’s Day on 8 March. It shows that the average number of women ministers is 28.6% and the average representation of women in national parliaments is 21.7%. There has been some progress since 2005, when only 19.9% of ministers were women, but representation in national parliaments has remained the same. These figures are far from the 40% minimum recommended by the organisation.
The data have been collected in order to monitor the implementation of a 2003 Recommendation of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe which set this 40% minimum in public decision making bodies for both men and women. This text contains a number of guidelines to assist member states in promoting an increased participation of women in decision-making.
The report contains data from 42 of the 47 members States of the Council of Europe on national and regional parliaments, national, regional and local governments, supreme and constitutional courts, the diplomatic service and Council of Europe´s bodies. It follows a similar report in 2005 with data from 39 countries.
The report, “Sex-disaggregated statistics on the participation of women and men in political and public decision making in the Council of Europe member states”, depicts the situation as of 1 September 2008. Its findings include:
· Only three member states have reached the recommended minimum of 40% of women in their national parliament: Sweden (46%), Finland (41.5%) and the Netherlands (41.3%). Belgium (37.3%), Denmark (38%) and Norway (37.9%) are close to reaching the required minimum.
· Finland and Spain exceed 50% participation of women in the composition of their national governments. Two women have been elected Heads of State – in Finland and Ireland -, and another two Heads of Government – in Germany and Ukraine -. In five countries there are no women ministers.
· Only 10.2 % of the mayors are women, Russia being the country with a highest proportion of women in this post (29.5%). 24% of municipal councillors are women. 27.6 % of the judges in Supreme Courts and 20.3% of the judges in constitutional courts are women.
(source: HREA - http://www.hrea.org/)
Human Rights Education Associates (HREA) is an international non-governmental organisation that supports human rights learning; the training of activists and professionals; the development of educational materials and programming; and community-building through on-line technologies.
Human Rights Education Associates (HREA) is an international non-governmental organisation that supports human rights learning; the training of activists and professionals; the development of educational materials and programming; and community-building through on-line technologies.
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