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Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Natasa Medjedovic is the Executive Coordinator at the SOS Hotline Niksic in Montenegro, a civil society organization partner of the UN Women regional programme on ending violence against women in the Western Balkans and Turkey “Implementing Norms, Changing Minds,” funded by the European Union. Medjedovic spoke to UN Women about how, despite the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on the functioning of women’s organizations and shelters, SOS Hotline Niksic has made every effort to...
A new, first of its kind service provision has proved useful in protecting survivors in Albania
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Woman Forum Elbasan, a local women’s organization, has been trying new ways of collaborating with the police and the courts to provide necessary services to women survivors of violence and their children.
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Marija Risteska is the Executive Director of Centre for Research and Policy Making, a civil society organization from North Macedonia, partner of the UN Women regional programme on ending violence against women “Implementing Norms, Changing Minds,” funded by the European Union. Risteska spoke to UN Women about the changes brought by the new law on ending violence against women, adopted in January, and the new amendments to the Criminal Code, yet to be adopted.
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Prior to serving as the Ombudsperson in Kosovo, Naim Qelaj was the National Coordinator against Domestic Violence. A lawyer by profession, Qelaj has been committed to making gender equality a reality throughout his career.
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Svetlana Ilic is a Roma women’s activist working in BIBIJA Roma Women's Centre, based in Serbia, a partner civil society organization of the UN Women regional programme on ending violence against women in the Western Balkans and Turkey, “Implementing Norms, Changing Minds,” funded by the European Union. For the last 20 years, Ilic has led the organization of hundreds of workshops on Roma women’s rights to education, health, a life without violence and freedom of choice....
Monday, April 19, 2021
UN Women’s first regional “Women’s Entrepreneurship Expo” in Europe and Central Asia will be held virtually with the participation of hundreds of women entrepreneurs from 12 countries. The Expo aims to support and empower women entrepreneurs during and after COVID-19.
UN Women’s Awake Not Sleeping initiative is reimagining fairy tales to promote gender equality
Thursday, April 15, 2021
The UN Women Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia is continuing to roll out its new creative writing initiative, ‘Awake Not Sleeping: Reimagining fairy tales for a new generation’, which aims to support fresh, creative dialogue to change the way societies think about women and girls’ roles, human potential and rights by rewriting and reimagining popular fairy tales.
Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Around 100 Roma women activists, civil society representatives and government officials from the Western Balkans and Turkey gathered virtually on International Roma Day to discuss best practices on preventing and responding to violence against Roma women at the webinar “Intersectional solutions to eliminate violence against Roma women and girls.”
Take Five: “It’s hard to speak out when you believe no one is there to hear”
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Bojana Jovanovska is a project coordinator at the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (HCHR), one of the most active organizations in promoting the human rights of all vulnerable groups in North Macedonia. For the last five years, the organization has been a partner of the EU-UN Women regional programme “Ending violence against women in the Western Balkans and Turkey: Implementing Norms, Changing Minds”.
Monday, April 12, 2021
UN Women Kosovo* is inviting civil society organizations registered in Kosovo, that have experience in preventing and responding to violence against women and gender-based discrimination, to submit project proposals for strengthening capacities of shelters to support women survivors of violence; for strengthening capacities of professional staff engaged in service provision; and to establish an online platform for legal aid provision to survivors of violence, as defined in the Terms of Reference.
Call for Proposals: Enhancement of women’s position in the labour market in Serbia
Monday, April 12, 2021
UN Women Office in Serbia is inviting civil society organizations (CSOs) registered in Serbia, that have gender equality, women’s rights and/or antidiscrimination set as one of the organization’s goals in Statute and have specialized knowledge, expertise and track record of working on gender equality and/or improving the status of women in the labour market and their economic empowerment to submit project proposals.
Friday, April 9, 2021
Tüpraş, the largest industrial company in Turkey and a supporter of the HeForShe-Fenerbahçe Sports Club partnership, continues to be an exemplary role model for ensuring gender equality and women’s empowerment together with UN Women Turkey. General Manager of Tüpraş İbrahim Yelmenoğlu, spoke to UN Women about the private sector’s role and Tüpraş’s roadmap for ensuring equality and women’s empowerment.
Thursday, April 8, 2021
On the occasion of International Roma Day, 8 April, UN Women regional programme “Implementing Norms, Changing Minds,” funded by the European Union, launches an interactive map to boost visibility of Roma women’s leadership in preventing and responding to violence against women, and gender-based discrimination. The map features women activists who relentlessly advocate for Roma women’s rights and provide much-needed support and services to Roma women and girls.
Wednesday, April 7, 2021
Christina Bilous is a Roma civic activist. She is also leader of a Self-Help Group in the community of Toretsk, near the frontline in the conflict-affected Donetsk region of Eastern Ukraine. As an active community member, Bilous heads up the Roma non-governmental organization, Sumnakuno Petalo, advocating for the rights of Roma women and girls.
Equalcity takes visitors on a journey to equality
Tuesday, April 6, 2021
UN Women Turkey launched an online platform, (www.equalcity.org) imagining a city where women are equally represented, have a voice and where equal rights and opportunities are ensured.
Campaigns, discussions, training and more put International Women’s Day in the spotlight in Albania
Tuesday, April 6, 2021
A wide range of events across Albania saw celebrities, farmers, journalists, and government officials mark International Women’s Day. Here are the highlights.
An interactive map helps municipalities in building gender-responsive services in Turkey
Tuesday, April 6, 2021
UN Women launched a gender-responsive interactive tool called the Purple Map for the women of Ankara, the capital city of Turkey. The Map, which is an easy-to-use guide that shows women centres, day care centres and gender-responsive municipal services of Ankara Metropolitan Municipality, aims to make the city safer for women.
Monday, April 5, 2021
After participating as a key speaker at the webinar “Intersectional solutions to eliminate violence against women and girls living with disabilities,” organized within the regional UN Women programme on ending violence against women in the Western Balkans and Turkey “Implementing Norms, Changing Minds,” funded by the European Union, Cani spoke to UN Women about how the organization’s field work is directly informing policy-making and law-development in Albania and what urgent actions are needed to prevent and respond to violence against women with disabilities, especially during the pandemic.
Syrian girls are encouraged to follow their dreams and continue their education
Thursday, April 1, 2021
Distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic has put Syrian girls at risk of dropping out of school, especially those who don’t have access to the internet and technological devices, increasing the risk of child, early and forced marriage.
Wednesday, March 31, 2021
The Generation Equality Forum Mexico concluded today with the unveiling of an Action Coalition blueprint and of new catalytic commitments for gender equality. These set the stage to pass the Forum’s torch to its next step in Paris on 30 June, which will be a major commitment-making moment.