RAPORTUL ALTERNATIV PRIVIND RESPECTAREA DREPTURILOR COPILULUI IN ROMANIA

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Raportul Alternativ privind respectarea Drepturilor Copilului in Romania a fost elaborat in cadrul proiectului cu acelasi nume, derulat de Federatia Organizatiilor Neguvernamentale pentru Copil – FONPC in septembrie 2007 – iulie 2008, proiect finantat de MAE Franta si UNICEF Romania.

La acest proiect au participat un numar de 83 ONG-uri si asociatii profesionale, precum si experti din domeniul Protectiei si Bunastarii Copilului.

Reprezentantii acestor asociatii si organizatii au pus la dispozitia Federatiei materiale documentare (rapoarte, studii, cercetari, studii de caz etc) si au participat direct la grupurile de lucru organizate in cadrul acestui proiect. Continue reading

Compensation Now: Campaign on Coerced Sterilisation

Romani Women Campaign around Forced Sterilisation Practices at the 2008 Women’s Worlds Congress in Spain
http://www.errc.org/cikk.php?cikk=2965

Information also in česky, español, magyarul.

3 July 2008, Budapest, Madrid, Ostrava, Prague: Today, a coalition comprised of the Ostrava-based Group of Women Harmed by Sterilisation, the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) and the Peacework Development Fund launch a global campaign seeking support for Romani women victimised by coerced sterilisation practices in Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia.
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Invitation to 2008 AWID Forum

animateforum.gifThe 11th AWID International Forum on Women’s Rights and Development
www.awid.org/forum08
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The Power of Movements

November 14-17, 2008
Cape Town, South Africa

The struggle for women’s rights continues to face formidable challenges.

Fundamentalist forces have gained ground around the world, exerting an increased control on women’s lives. The Millennium Development Goals alongside the new aid architecture have restructured development assistance with women’s rights taking a back seat. The HIV and AIDS pandemic has continued to spread, with women being disproportionately affected. Migration has become an increasingly feminized phenomenon, particularly in relation to issues of labour and sexual exploitation. Militarization has increased, with particularly devastating impacts on women, while at the same time “security” agendas have obscured global strategies for human development and the eradication of poverty. Continue reading

Feminist Midwifery Zine call out

A feminist midwifery ‘zine’:
Is midwifery a feminist issue? How do feminists practice midwifery? What are feminists currently thinking about childbearing? What do feminists think about midwives?

This is a ‘call out’ to feminists who would like to contribute to an upcoming ‘zine’ about feminism, midwifery, pregnancy and birthing. A ‘zine’ is an informally published / DIY magazine. If you’ve never seen one then imagine a cross between a leaflet for a local jumble sale, a comic and a text book.

This particular zine will be distributed free or for donations – via free PDF documents and cheap printed copies… contributors will retain original copyright but agree for ‘copy-left’. This means anyone is welcome to copy the zine as long as it’s not for profit and says where the info comes from.

[*Contributions deadline – first draft = 30th August 2008]

You can contribute anything printable to the zine – writing, rants, poems, cartoons, drawings, photos, quizzes and crosswords, origami birth plans, cut out and keep guide to your womb, birth in the NHS self defence tip cards… anything flat!

Please think about making your writing understandable to a wide audience – how you write is up to you, but it might be useful to avoid midwifery jargon or writing in a very academic style.

We are interested in the views of student and qualified midwives; doulas; mums and other parents; birth activists and feminist health folk – if you don’t want to use your name you’re welcome to use a nickname.

Some ideas so far…feminist midwifery: birth without borders? – refugee women birthing in the NHS; queer parenting; freebirthing; trans-men birthing; techno-birth ‘v’ ecofeminism; independent midwifery radical or elitist?; dykes midwives and homosexual panic; earth-mother consumerism; birth as power; birth crisis and birth trauma; sexuality and breastfeeding; dads in the labour room; babybonding – myth and reality; Where are the male midwives?; midwifery, horizontal violence and sexism… Continue reading

Pride Now! This month, in Sofia, on 28 June

39 years after the Stonewall events

First LGBT pride parade in Bulgaria
http://www.bgogemini.org/eng/

Imagine now that today is not 2008, but about 10 years earlier. Leave aside that you are 10 years younger – besides now you are much more mature, you have broader perspective on life, gained quite some living experience, now you can say in a seriously manner “ten years ago the life was different…”

Imagine now that today is not 2008, but about 10 years earlier. Now the first gay pride in Tel Aviv, Israel, takes place. Fifteen years have passed from the first gay pride in Ireland. In 8 year will be organized the first pride in Moscow. The Europride has already taken place twice. There are only 3 years until the first and the most bloody till then pride march in Berlgrade, Serbia. The idea for holding Eastern European Pride is born and it will take place in June 2006, in Zagreb, Croatia. In only two years after today the first pride in Jerusalem will take place. Until the symbolic and unique first demonstration in Riga, when the march ended in a local church, there are 7 years pending. After just 4 years Poland will witness cruel violation of the humanity, when nationalistic groups throw stones and fired bottles towards the marching people in Cracow in 2003. The first pride in Bulgaria, with one of the best anti-discrimination legislations in Europe, will take place in 18 years. Or more.

The time is now.

The time is this month, in Sofia, on 28 June’s afternoon. The Pride starts at 16:30 at the National Palace of Culture in Sofia. We, gays, lesbians, bisexual and transgender people, have families. We dedicate this Pride to Our Families – we are fathers and daughters, mothers and sons. You don’t have to be gay to join us. You don’t even have to know someone, who is gay. But you must believe that we are all equal and we all have the right to live normal life with dignity!

Vocea romilor se face auzita!

Printr-un protest al tacerii, dar foarte sonor din prisma imaginilor recente din campurile de romi din Italia ce vor fi afisate, vocea romilor din Romania se va face auzita maine, 3 iunie 2008, incepand cu orele 13.00, in fata sediului Ambasadei Italiei (Str. Henri Coanda, nr.9). In acelasi timp, se va depune un document prin care protestatarii solicita masuri de incetare a atacurilor recente care continua sa se desfasoare in diferite orase italiene, la intervale mici de timp.

Simultan, organizatiile de romi din Spania organizeaza un protest in fata Ambasadei Italiei din Madrid.
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fwd: Eclectic Tech Carnival has started!

The seventh Eclectic Tech Carnival is happening from Sunday the 25th
until Saturday the 31st of May in Amsterdam.

http://www.eclectictechcarnival.org/

Inviting All Women.
Including gender minorities and female-identified persons.
(The evening programme is open for men, also)

The /ETC is a unique tech skill-share that has been held annually since
2002. The emphasis has always been women sharing their experiences,
knowledge and skills around free software, open hardware and universal
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human rights crisis in italy

some coverage from h.r. groups [updated 21.08]:

EveryOne
“68 percent of Italians want Roma expelled – poll”
Sixty-eight per cent of Italians, fuelled by often inflammatory attacks by the new rightwing government, want to see all of the country’s 150,000 Gypsies, many of them Italian citizens, expelled, according to an opinion poll.

“Anti-gypsy sentiments out of control in Italy. The truth about the kidnapping in Naples”
EveryOne Group has concluded the first stage of its own investigation into the so-called child kidnapping in Ponticelli (Naples).

Human Rights Tribune
“Europa: Home to Roma, but no place to be”
A Roma ghetto in Ponticelli neighbourhood of Naples, Italy, was burnt down May 14 by locals angry over a reported attempt by a Roma young woman to kidnap a baby. The incident shows that, when it comes to living together with the 10 million Roma, Europeans today have no better answer than the “Gypsy hunts” of the Middle Ages.

EU Roma Policy Coalition
ERPC-statement on anti-Roma events in Italy (PDF)
Join the ERPC call for action against the anti-Romani hate speech and racist action in Italy! – SIGN PETITION HERE

UPDATE 5.6.2008: Alianta Civica a Romilor din Romania, Romani CRISS, Centrul Rromilor “Amare Rromentza”, Asociatia Thumende (Valea Jiului), Asociatia Parudimos (Timisoara), Asociatia Ketanes (Giurgiu), Centrul Crestin al Romilor (Sibiu), Fundatia RUHAMA (Oradea), Centrul Romilor Terne Romentza (Alexandria), Agentia de Dezvoltare Comunitara “Impreuna”, Centrul de Resurse pentru Participare Publica, Institutul pentru Politici Publice, Asociatia Cultura Pacii, Asociatia ACCEPT
protest in Bucharest against racism & xenophobia / protest la Bucuresti contra rasismului si xenofobiei

“Are you talking to me?”

Lansare de carte si discutii in cadrul Bienalei Bucuresti (english link):

Mai 25, 2008
17.00
“Are you talking to me?”
Dezbateri live despre productia de cunostinte, politici de gender si strategii feministe.

Participanti: Prof. dr. Marina Grzinic, h.arta and PCAP class (Carolina Agredo, Lina Dokuzovic, Kevin Dooley, Veronika Eberhart, Clarissa Gadsden, Can Gulcu, Peter Hasel Maier, Ivan Jurica, Johannes Klemen, Christoph Kolar, Katharina Morawek, Adnan Popovic, Lilo Reissert, Jasmin Schienegger, Christina Trachta, Ruth Weismann, Regina Wuzella and Prof. Assist. Petja Dimitrova, Prof. Assist. Eduard Freudmann).

BB3 a invitat studentii Clasei de Arta Post Conceptuala (PCAP) din cadrul Academiei de Arte din Viena, clasa Prof. Marina Grzinic sa propuna un eveniment paralel. Rezultatul este un proiect-carte cu titlul “Are you talking to me?”. Publicatia cuprinde discutii despre productia cunoasterii, politici de gen si strategii feministe fiind editata de grupul feminist h.arta (Maria Crista, Anca Gyemant, Rodica Tache) din Romania si Katharina Morawek (studenta a PCAP). După un efort editorial intens cartea prezinta pozitiile studentilor PCAP referitoare la cunoastere, UE si feminism. Aceste pozitii sint prezentate impreuna cu artisti si teoreticieni internationali invitati sa isi expuna punctele de vedere.

Locatie: CNDB – Centrul National al Dansului Bucuresti (Bd. Nicolae Balcescu, nr. 2 – TNB, 4th Floor, Ronda Hall)

Apel la actiune pentru munca decenta, viata decenta

Decent Work Decent Life Call to Action
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În ciuda creşterii economice mondiale, populaţia globului nu îşi vede viaţa ameliorată ca rezultat.

Pe lângă şomajul semnificativ, mulţi sunt într-o situaţie de angajare precară sau neplătiţi pentru munca efectuată. Jumătate din forţa de muncă a planetei câştigă mai puţin de 2 $ pe zi. 12, 3 milioane de oameni muncesc in sclavie. 200 de milioane de copii sub 15 ani muncesc în loc să meargă la şcoală. 2,2 milioane de oameni mor datorită accidentelor de muncă şi bolilor profesionale în fiecare an. Oamenii din ţările în curs de dezvoltare şi din ţările dezvoltate muncesc mai mult pentru un salariu mai mic, şi din ce în ce mai mulţi oameni – în marea lor majoritate femei – sunt forţaţi să-şi câştige traiul în aşa-numita economie informală, pe piaţa neagră, în slujbe nesigure şi fără protecţie socială sau drepturi. În acest timp, companiile se folosesc de ameninţarea cu delocalizarea unităţilor de producţie pentru a diminua salariile şi drepturile câştigate cu greu cum ar fi dreptul la contractul colectiv de muncă şi la grevă. Sindicaliştii care se luptă împotriva acestor tendinţe sunt daţi afară, ameninţaţi, încarceraţi sau chiar omorâţi.

Doar un sistem internaţional bazat pe solidaritate şi respect pentru drepturile oamenilor, înscrise în convenţiile Naţiunilor Unite şi a Organizaţiei Internaţionale a Muncii pot opri această tendinţă. Cerem guvernelor să semneze aceste convenţii, să le implementeze urgent şi să facă din munca decentă centrul preocupărilor lor politice.

În iulie 2006, reprezentanţii guvernelor la Comitetul Economic şi Social al Naţiunilor Unite au adoptat o Declaraţie ministerială care exprimă în primul articol următoarele:

„Suntem convinşi de nevoia urgentă de a crea la nivel naţional şi internaţional un climat care să conducă la angajare deplină şi productivă şi muncă decentă pentru toţi ca bază a dezvoltării sustenabile.”

Apelul lor trebuie însoţit de ratificarea şi implementarea standardelor Organizaţiei Internaţionale a Muncii, într-un moment în care agenţiile internaţionale folosesc noul pachet de măsuri al Naţiunilor Unite pentru a canaliza munca decentă şi angajarea ca prim pas pentru o mai mare coerenţă a politicilor şi convergenţă în îndeplinirea angajamentului de muncă decentă pentru toţi.

Timpul de a îndeplini această promisiune este ACUM.

Considerăm că munca decentă este esenţială pentru eradicarea sărăciei, pentru îmbunătăţirea traiului oamenilor şi pentru a le asigura o viaţă în pace şi demnitate. De aceea cerem celor responsabili să:
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