The Conference celebrating the 25th anniversary of establishing the WAVE Network took place in Tallinn (Estonia) on 7-9 October 2019. WAVE (Women Against Violence Europe) is a network NGO composed of over 140 European women’s NGOs working in the field of combating violence against women and children. The Centre “Women’s ... Read more
11
092019
Developing plans of action based on the gender audit results helps to increase gender competencies of the organisation members. It also helps to introduce new working methods to increase the organisation’s potential and improve the quality of CSO’s programme activities.
The handbook “Gender audit for civil society organisations” includes a gender ... Read more
03
092019
Centre "Women's Perspective" announces the third Femintensive which will take place on 24-26 October 2019 in Carpathians. The event is sponsored by the Open Society Foundations and Sigrid Rausing Trust.
Before the crash course we will host a separate (introductory) event - the Training on storytelling in communication and advocacy feminist campaigns in ... Read more
02
092019
Centre "Women’s perspectives" have prepared its 2018 Annual report for the activities in the fields of women’s rights, violence against women, feminism and gender equality. See the full report below (available in English).
02
092019
Our organisation has conducted the analysis of case law regarding restraining orders. We looked into the cases in Lviv region during January-June 2019. See the full report attached below (available only in Ukrainian).
About restraining orders
A restraining order is a temporary measure that restricts the rights or imposes duties ... Read more
20
082019
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted first-ever international legal instrument to prevent and combat sexism. The Recommendation CM/Rec(2019)1 provides for the following definition of sexism: any act, gesture, visual representation, spoken or written words, practice or behaviour based upon the idea that a person or a ... Read more
14
082019
For the third time, the NGO “VIS” (Vinnytsia) organised a special Femen Camp for girls. Centre “Women’s Perspectives” once again supported the camp thanks to the funding from Sigrid Rausing Trust.
This year the participants launched feminist photographic projects with the help of Roksolana Potsyurko. The groups of participants also prepared ... Read more
30
072019
Our grantee, the NGO “VIS” (Vinnytsia), have prepared a photo exhibition and a documentary on the life of homeless women.
The situation of homeless women in Ukraine is hardly studied, it is unknown how many of them are on the street. A series of portraits and the documentary are an attempt ... Read more
26
072019
Our clients took part in a survey we conducted recently. Over 200 letters with questionnaires were sent out to women who used our services in 2017 and in the first half of 2018. The services in question involved the preparation of legal documents.
These documents concerned divorce, child support, deprivation of ... Read more
22
072019
Here is our organisation's news digest featuring events in April-June 2019 (available in Ukrainian).