Third Baltic Sea Women's Conference on WoMen and Democracy

Program of the Soros Foundation in the field of reproductive rights and reproductive health is giving possibility to get scholarships for the academic year 2003-2004.

Charity foundation "Malenkiy prinz" is announcing the competition of projects for non-commercial organizations, aimed at advocacy and support of children's interests as well as at improvement of life quality for children.

Training center "Golubka" is inviting to take part in the regular open training for trainers "Training tools. Methodic of interactive trainings" (21-24 October 2002).

Action "Street children and right for education" took place in September in Svetlyy in Kaliningrad region. Action was organized by the non-commercial partnership of Kaliningrad region, coordinated by RSO "League of women voters of Kaliningrad Region".

Participants of the regularly scheduled session of the regional commission on women's situation improvement issues discussed the report about the social and economical situation of women in Voronezh region in 2001.

Authorities of the Novosibirsk Region are about to improve working conditions for women and under aged. This statement was made at the session of the Council of women, family and children issues.

Site of the women's social organization "Femina" presents effective strategies on inter-sector cooperation in different spheres.

Sverdlovsk regional social organization "Against women's unemployment" (Ekaterinburg) has been registered since 1998 and has been working in close contact with Ural Association of Refugees (UAR) and consulting mainly its contingent about situation on the local job market, on labor legislation, employment etc.

8-10 September seminar for women journalists from South Caucasus was held in Moscow. Seminar was financed by Government of Germany through the mediation of OBSE mission in Georgia. Our correspondent also participated in the work of seminar.

Sverdlovsk regional Center for development of inter-sector social partnership established by the Ural Youth Informational Center started its activities. Strategic goal of the organization is to create effective mechanisms of partnership between non-commercial, governmental, municipal and commercial organizations aimed at solving vital social problems.

UNO Summit on problems of stable development took place from August 28 till September 4 in Johannesburg (Republic of South Africa). Summit gave to the global community the unique chance to move forward to the stable future.

Let us compare trends on the post-socialist space and in the United States of America studying gender, race and many other aspects.

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St-Petersburg Center on Gender Issues is intending to conduct this action in October 2002. In this connection we would like to ask everybody interested to assist in searching of sexism examples (discriminating, humiliating women's images) in mass media, press, advertising, TV, literature. That could be citations of politicians in press, on TV, billboards, photos, video, articles etc. We would be happy to receive both material subjects and information, references to citations specifying author, time and place of statements. Send your materials to: pcgi@mail.wplus.net , 191123, St-Petersburg, ul.Vosstaniya, 40/19-37.

Social organizations "Crisis Center "Ekaterina" and "Semya Mira" invite women and girls to take part in free-of-charge trainings on seeking a job "How to search and find a good job".

There is a very clear criterion of sexual harassments - object does not want the signs of close relationship that are given to him (her).

"Advancement of the gender approach to the problems of reproductive health and reproductive rights" - this training course will be organized by the Center of African Family Education from 30 September till 18 October.

Approximately 30 women from all the cities and regions of Komi Republic will study electoral technologies at the school "Partner" that will open end of September in Syktyvkar.

Latvia takes the first place in the world on the numeral prevalence of women over men, data of the Central Statistical Department of the country proves.

Advertising agent Katya Tsvetkova beat five militia officers while they did their duty but not bothered her with sexual solocitation.

Results are as follows: phenomena of sexism is existing in the Russian mass media - 78% think, the rest does not know what sexism means.

E.V.Karyukhin. "Gerontological NCOs: from departure models to formation of the sector" Manual of social gerontology for personnel of gerontological NCOs.

Council on International Researches and Exchanges (IREX) in the frames of the program for strengthening and development of Russian NCOs (PRO-NCO) is conducting training "Quality of NCO services" for representatives of resource centers from Siberia, South of Russia, Samara and Velikiy Novgorod.

A documentary about activities of the regional social organization "Mother and Child" was shoot in Barnaul on 21 August.

2-5 April 2003 the V International Conference on ethics and environmental policy "Business style and stable development" will take place in Kiev. The conference will analyze and discuss different subjects of the environmental policy.

More than 200 women from 46 countries participated in the Know How Conference 2002 held July 22 to 27, 2002 at Makarere University in Kampala, Uganda. Isha Dyfan, Anne S. Walker and Yasna Uberoi of IWTC/Women, Ink. traveled to Uganda to be part of a very exciting and stimulating event.

Women's non- commercial organizations of the Altai region prepared project of the contract about social partnership with the police department. The main target of the contract is to improve the effectiveness of activities of NCOs and police department.

We use words "municipal policy" in the sense that we - social organizations and energetic women - find it important that municipal power bodies and community know about us and pay attention to our activities. We consider politics as changes, initiated from "the bottom", but for all that we mark out the gender constituent because we try to set up the problems that are concerning women directly.

Altai regional social organization "Women's club "Sudarynya" helped to renovate the shelter for children and teenagers "Nadezhda" in the frames of the project "Learning to be good".

Branch offices of the Altai regional crisis center for men will open soon in Slavgorod, Biysk and Rubtsovsk. Specialists of the population's social protection committees of those cities won the contest announced by the crisis center at the beginning of this year.

Lexicon of Gender Terms is the first full (378 articles) lexicographic edition presenting Russian language gender terms as well as their English language versions. As gender terms we interpret words and word-combinations of the professional language, indicating special terms of gender researches and integrating scientific knowledge from the fields of philosophy, sociology, political and art science, psychology and linguistics, literary criticism, history and partly sexology. Lexicon contents lexicographic articles of 49 scientists and researchers from Russia and abroad. The Lexicon is created for scientists, teachers and students, journalists, representatives of power and governing bodies, participants of social movements. One of the targets of publishing the Lexicon is gender education of the Russian society aimed at forming of worldwide-accepted modern conceptions about equality of men and women.

Last time the officials from Russian side often make announcements where they express their will of solving Pankisi Region problem by force

Altai crisis center for men is preparing the project "Men overcoming violence". The main target of the project is to work out by men intolerance to the violence toward women and family.

Monthly trainings for unemployed "Destiny is having many roads" are held in Barnaul which are supposed to contribute to the development of entrepreneurial opportunities for women.

While directing efforts in the united course, we can achieve significant results. This undisputable argument should result in establishing the Association of crisis centers "Imkon", which is step by step obtaining visible contours.

US First Lady Laura Bush presented annual award for contribution to development of democracy on July 9. Award was presented to Muborak Tashpulatova, director of one of Tashkent social-educational centers.

Fair of Vacancies and Career Day will take place on September 21, 2002 in the AEROSTAR Hotel, Moscow, Russia, Leningradskiy Prospect, 37-9. To take part in the Fair of Vacancies and Career Day you should get registered and fill in the register form and send it back to IREX not later than August 30, 2002.

The 6th All-Russian contest "Woman director of the Year" starts in Russia. Contest is organized by the Russian Association of women entrepreneurs.

Regional Social Organization “Vostok-Zapad: ZhIP” is opening the new section “Environment” at the portal “Woman and Society”. The main target of the section is to attract attention of the society and first of all of women themselves to the things that happen around us and from which we are not protected and that affect our subconsciousness: when we manage to respect ourselves – we will learn to see the things that are disgracing us.

Interesting events and information for women in July from the point of view of the British feminist organization AVIVA.

Regional Social Organization "Vostok-Zapad: ZhIP" (Women's Innovations Projects) announces publishing of the "Lexicon of Gender Terms". Lexicon of Gender Terms is the first full (379 articles) lexicographic edition that presents Russian language gender terms as well as English language equivalents. Request form.

Regional social organization "Vostok-Zapad: Women's Innovations Projects" announces opening of the English version of the portal "Woman and Society" (http://www.owl.ru/english/). Annotations of all the news and articles, which are placed at the portal's Russian version, are translated into English.

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Seminars of the Khoresm regional women's center "Megrihie" are based on the knowledge, which can help people to overcome difficulties in their life. Center was registered by the Regional Department of Justice on May 31, 2002. Center's main mission is to improve status of the social unprotected sections of the population, first of all women and youth and to support them through different educational activities.

League of women voters while continuing its activities took part on the Seventh Festival of social projects. Yearly Festival of social projects took place for the seventh time in Novosibirsk on June 30, 2002.

Two women entered the new Czech Government formed by the Social-Democrat Vladimir Spidla.

This summer women escaped from brothels and dens of other countries will get a possibility to rest and take a deep breath in a special shelter apartment in St-Petersburg. It will be the first shelter of this type in Russia.

July 15 in Ekaterinenburg started the three-days seminar on training of social services workers who will render emergent and preventive psychological help measures to victims of domestic violence.

Journalist Ekaterina Andreyeva, hostess of the "Vremya" program on ORT TV channel has once worked in the General Office of Public Prosecutor: looks very feminine but can wield all the shooting weapons and is a professional driver.

Two months ago 66 years old writer Lidia Ivanova told that she lives happy with her 26 year old husband Andrey - but there you are! At the presentation of her book "Fallosophy of Life" the writer said that she separated from Andrey.

July 11-12, 2002 the 12th Global Women's Summit took place in Barcelona More than 500 representatives of international and national women's organizations from more than 50 countries are participants of the Summit. Barcelona Summit pretends to be a "women's version of Davos summit".

Analytical Bulletin of the Council of Federation # 4 (160), February 2002, reviewing the results of the seminars of Commission on women's issues by the Chairman of the Council of Federation RF.

Women live longer because they sleep better. This hypothesis was advanced by scientists from the University of Pennsylvania.

During the last half-year in Georgia 15 people have been kidnapped with the purpose to get ransom and 27 girls have been kidnapped to get married.