Seminar has been organized on the threshold of additional elections to the City Duma and Regional Deputies' Council to assist women going to power institutions and to increase the level of political education.
Feminists of the Don area put forward their own version of improvement of investment climate in the Rostov region. They suggest subjecting the legislation of Rostov region to the gender examination.
2001 volunteers of the Karelia Center of Gender Issues joined the project of UNO International Foundation of Women's Development (UNIFEM), which is conducting in 9 countries the regional informational campaign for the women's right to live without violence. For more information visit our website www.nasilie.net
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.
On August 14, 2002, the presentation of the Lexicon of Gender Terms was successfully held in the Historical Museum. Representatives of many mass media visited the presentation: NTV, TNT, Radio Russia, Russian Radio, Gazeta.ru and many others.
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.
Perm Center against violence and "white slavery" made the research trying to find out the extent of knowledge by medical workers about violence against women.
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.
Committee of social and interregional relations by the Moscow Government is organizing Moscow International Exhibition "Modern woman: family and business".
Non-commercial partnership "Women's Alliance" is holding the interregional conference "Domestic violence. Not for a minute more!" on September 10-11, 2002 in Barnaul. The target of the conference is to highlight the role of the community and its involvement into the process of solving the problem of domestic violence.
From 12 August till 12th of September the action under the motto "Mothers against drugs" will run in the Bryansk Region. The Action is organized by the Interdepartmental Commission on Women's Children's and Family Issues of the Bryansk Government.
Women's country initiatives are planned to be supported by grants. As IAA "Region-Inform-Perm" reports, Vice-Governor Tatyana Margolina came out with this suggestion on Tuesday, 30 July.
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