• Training of Trainers on the Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women organized jointly by KARAT Coalition and IWRAW Asia Pacific on 17-23 November 2010, Warsaw, Poland.
  More information: daria.suwala@karat.org.pl

"I want a fair and green phone" is an action directed at mobile network operators. Millions of mobile phones are being sold every year. Unfortunately, the production of these phones often doesn’t respect social and environmental standards. As the main retailers of mobile phones, network operators have to take some responsibility.

Send a digital postcard to your mobile network operator.
Together we will make IT fair!

The summer issue of KARAT News is available here
Have a nice reading!

KARAT Coalition is taking part in the work of the Coalition for Equal Chances - an unofficial platform of a number of Polish well-known NGOs promoting human rights and equality. It has been created in response to the fact that Polish government’s work on the project of equality law is of substandard quality, disappointing and not always transparent.
The Coalition is coordinated by Polish Society of Anti-Discrimination Law. It monitors the preparation of the project of equality law. It also tries to initiate a substantial dialogue with the government.

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KARAT has now a Facebook profile which can be used for exchange of information and ideas relevant to our Coalition in a less formal and more interactive manner than offered by KARAT’s webpage. Therefore we would like to encourage those of you who have Facebook profiles to become fans of KARAT on Facebook. For more information write to Anita (anita.seibert@karat.org.pl); Marta (marta.gontarska@karat.org.pl) or Ewa Kaminska (ewa.kaminska@karat.org.pl).

A group of representatives from the Albanian women’s rights NGOs has participated in the 46th Session of the Committee of CEDAW. The delegation presented the recommendations based on the shadow reports on the periodical report of the Albanian government. One of the shadow reports has been initiated by the Gender Alliance for Development Centre (member of KARAT Coalition).
As unemployment and informal work constitute a huge problem in Albania, the Albanian NGOs delegation has underlined that economic empowerment of women is a very important step towards the elimination of discrimination and violence.

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The Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) is convening a regional meeting for young women from the SEE/CEE/CIS region on the topic of resource mobilization and movement building for women’s rights organizations.
The meeting will take place on October 19th – 20th in Tbilisi, Georgia.

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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.

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