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“Are you talking to me?”

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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)

from worldwatch on global population

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The average woman worldwide is giving birth to fewer children than ever. Nonetheless, an estimated 136 million babies were born in 2007, bringing the global population to about 6.7 billion. Governments must improve access to good health care and family planning to see further declines in childbearing and increases in life expectancy…

More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want

For the Worldwatch Institute, human population has always been a sustainability issue. Our earliest writings confirmed a stable balance between population and the environment as an essential ingredient of the equitable and enduring society our mission advances. And over the years we have highlighted the polices needed in all nations to encourage this balance through healthy reproduction, voluntary family planning, gender equality, and the free decisions of women and couples about childbearing.

Since our founding, however, the issues surrounding population have become ever more sensitive and delicate, discouraging many environmentalists and policymakers from taking on the topic. Now, Worldwatch Vice President for Programs Robert Engelman, a 16-year veteran of the population and reproductive health field, has broken new ground in his own fresh take on this perennially difficult issue. In More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want, Engelman leads readers on a journey from humanity’s first steps on two feet to the 21st century and beyond to explore whether women want more children or more for their children, and how their childbearing intentions have fared in a male-dominated world. The answers he finds not only surprise but offer new hope for real and lasting global sustainability.

Rich in historical detail, contemporary stories, and provocative ideas, More is the keystone of a new initiative at the Worldwatch Institute to return population and women’s reproductive decision-making to their critical role in the environment, the economy, and human rights.

Vital Signs Update: Fertility Falls, Population Rises, Future Uncertain.

pre-8.3.2008

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Un studiu realizat cu putin inainte de Ziua Internationala a Femeii, moment de bilant pentru miscarile feministe europene, arata ca inegalitatea dintre sexe ramane o problema.

— “Profesional, femeile nu castiga teren in fata barbatilor” (Curentul, 26.2.2008)

alte studii/campanii/pozitii institutionale (en):

EFF June conference in Poland cancelled

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The European Feminist Forum, which was planned for 13-15 June 2008 in Warsaw, will not take place.

The European networks that have been cooperating since 2006 on the platform for debate and sharing entitled European Feminist Forum have decided, due to financial reasons, that the culmination of the process with the conference will not take place. This is the face-to-face meeting of European feminists, which we had scheduled to take place from 13-15 June 2008. Instead, the process will be concluded with a comprehensive publication.

The other parts of the European Feminist Forum process have taken place and we are very proud of the achievements. The process has set up a vivid field of knowledge creation, knowledge sharing, movement building and agenda setting in Europe. 21 Affinity Groups have debated urgent issues, and shared their information and knowledge through the European Feminist Forum website. Our process of visioning a feminist Europe was driven by many feminist-inspired voices, from young, migrant, male, minority and marginalized voices. The European Feminist Forum was constructed and has been an inclusive and joint platform of all of these groups from the start. For a preliminary overview of results so far, follow this link.
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Latest WorldWatch: sustainable economies

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Seven Principles for a Sustainable Global Economy

Ideas about how the world works that don’t accord with reality can be unhelpful … That’s especially true about mainstream economics. But in recent decades, economists and researchers have suggested a variety of reforms that would make economics truer, greener, and more sustainable. … seven of these from Chapter 1 of the Worldwatch Institute’s latest report, State of the World 2008: Innovations for a Sustainable Economy:
1) Scale.
2) Stress development over growth.
3) Make prices tell the ecological truth.
4) Account for nature’s services.
5) The precautionary principle.
6) Commons management.
7) Value women.

Read: “Green Economics”: Turning Mainstream Thinking on Its Head

Maintaining Climate, Maintaining Peace

Climate stability, reduced poverty, and less inequality should be key goals of a far-sighted security policy … Even though peacekeeping budgets have been on a welcome incline in recent years, a comparison with world military spending indicates where most governments are really prepared to put their money.

Read: Peacekeeping, a Study in Contradictions.
Vital Signs Update: Peacekeeping Budgets and Personnel Soar to New Heights.

Living Sustainably

“More is better”—the modern economic mantra—is under attack as the environmental, economic, and personal downsides of consumerism become evident. Harried, overworked, and indebted consumers are increasingly open to a focus on quality of life rather than more stuff …

Read: State of the World 2008, Chapter 4: The Challenge of Sustainable Lifestyles (pdf).
Vote: What would you ask your community leaders to do to encourage sustainable lifestyles?

recent-ish news from all over

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  • Peste 400 de tatici din Salaj au ales sa fie “mame” [5.2.2008]
  • Major feminist demonstration at Rafah border [2.2.2008]
  • Afghan Journalism Student Sentenced to Death for Reading About Women’s Rights [1.2.2008]
  • Indian Party Reserves Seats for Women [1.2.2008]
  • Birth Control Price Crisis Continues [31.1.2008]
  • Afghan Women Demonstrate Against Kidnapping of American Woman [31.1.2008]
  • Arizona Governor Rejects Federal Abstinence-Only Funds [30.1.2008]
  • Mexican Woman Challenges Voting Ban for Women [29.1.2008]
  • “The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo” Wins at Sundance [29.1.2008]
  • Wyoming Gender Wage Gap Widens [28.1.2008]
  • Sexual Violence in Kenya Continues to Escalate [28.1.2008]
  • Indigenous rights activist ends hunger strike [28.1.2008]
  • Senate Holds Hearing on Fair Pay [25.1.2008]
  • ‘4 Months’ Raises the Iron Curtain on Abortion [24.1.2008]
  • Feu vert pour l’adoption homosexuelle en Europe [23.1.2008]
  • Jumatate dintre romance nu isi planifica sarcina – studiu [16.1.2008]
  • Cum sa profiti de discriminare [15.1.2007]
  • Black, Minority ethnic and Refugee Women and Domestic Violence [14.1.2008]
  • Evaluarea drepturilor rromilor [ro/en] [14.1.2007]
  • Abused immigrant spouses may face deportation [7.1.2008]
  • Primul ghid de interventie in cazurile de violenta in familie [5.12.2007]
  • Roundtable with Romani Women Networks [2-4.12.2007]

    • eu-wide study on domestic duties and jobs

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    Childcare locks women into lower-paid jobs

    · Europe-wide study reveals entrenched lifestyle divide
    · Domestic duties prevent females pursuing top jobs

    December 6, 2007
    The Guardian

    British women are working in lower paid and lower status jobs than their male counterparts because they still shoulder the responsibility for housework and childcare, a Cambridge University study reveals today.

    A “lifestyle divide”, in which women take on the burden of domestic duties, creates a vicious circle as they are then less able to work the long hours needed to win top jobs. They then earn less and are reinforced as responsible for household tasks, says the Europe-wide research.

    The divide also leaves women with a longer working day, despite earning less, according to the study. The average working week for a woman in Europe is 68 hours, including paid and domestic work – longer than the average of 55 hours for a man in full-time employment.

    The study, the first of its kind since EU members joined from the former eastern bloc, suggests efforts to reduce the workplace gender gap in the UK and the rest of Europe have made little progress since the early 1990s. It reinforces the warnings of several British studies that part-time working, now more accessible in the UK thanks to a right to ask to work flexibly, can lock women into low-paid jobs. more

    About the study – University of Cambridge

    glosar de gen, violenta, discriminare multipla

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    niste resurse institutionale (si info in plus):

    de la CPE
    “Intrebari frecvente”
    – glosar de termeni “de gen”:
    Ce inseamna actiune afirmativa (positive action)? / De ce avem nevoie de egalitatea de sanse pentru femei si barbati? / Ce inseamna gen social (gender)? / Ce sunt stereotipurile de gen? / Ce este traficul de persoane? / De ce sunt oamenii traficati? / Reprezinta oare prostitutia singurul scop pentru care oamenii sunt traficati? / Sunt oare femeile singura categorie de persoane traficate?/ Care este diferenta intre „Femeia in dezvoltare” si „Gen si dezvoltare”? / Ce este “Gender mainstreaming”? / Ce este “Empowerment”? / La ce se refera conceptul de „Balanta de Gen”? / Ce se are in vedere prin expimarea ca o initiativa/proiect/activitate este „Gender-Ignoranta”? / In ce consta conceptul de „Egalitate de Gen”? / In ce consta conceptul de “Echitate de Gen”? / Ce se are in vedere prin „Dezvoltarea Capacitatilor”? / Ce defineste conceptul „Sensibil din punct de vedere Gender”? / La ce se refera „Relatiile de Gender” / Ce este “Leadership”? / Ce inseamna violenta impotriva femeii? / Care sunt tipurile de violenta impotriva femeii? / Ce este violenta domestica? / Cine sunt victimele violentei domestice? / Ce este abuzul?
    (alte definitii in glosarul lf-ro: Actiune afirmativa / Analiza din perspectiva (egalitatii) de gen / Androcentrism / Autoritate / Barbati homosexuali (barbati gay / faggot / fags) / Capitalism de consum / Coming out /coming out of the closet / Comodificare (sau obiectificare) / Constructie sociala / Cultura violului (rape culture) / Deconstruire / Determinism biologic / Diferenta / Discriminare / Dubla constrangere / Dublu standard / Dyke / Epistemologie / Esentialism / Feminism / Feminism: valuri / Feminism: tipuri / Gay / Gen / Gender mainstreaming / Genderqueer / Globalizare / Heteronormativitate / Heterosexismul / Homofobia / Identitate sexuala (sexual identity) / Ideologie dominanta / Ierarhie / (In)egalitate de gen / Institutie / Intersexual / Justitie sociala / Lesbiene (femei homosexuale / femei gay / dykes) / Lesbiana versus Feminitate / LGBT / Lumea a treia / Mainstream / Marginalizare / Misandrie / Misoginie / Opresiune / Opresiuni intrepatrunse (interlocking/intersecting oppressions) / Patriarhat, / Praxis / Privilegiu / Putere / Queer / Riot Grrrl / Sex / Sexism / Sexualitate / Sex worker / Studii de gen / Tokenism / Violenta sistemica / Transgender / Transsexual / Travestiti / Womanism)

    de la ANES
    “Violenta de gen”
    – definitia problemei si oficial despre legea 217/2003
    (o colectie de info privind problemele cu implementarea legii aici)

    tot de la ANES, o stire recenta
    – Raportul “Discriminare multipla in Romania” (de Cristina Mocanu de la Institutul National de Cercetare Stiintifica in Domeniul Muncii si Protectiei Sociale/Laura Grunberg de la AnA SAF) a fost finalizat si lansat

    informatii transmise de c.

    h. da detalii despre concluziile raportului pe discriminare multipla aici

    campanii pentru cele 16 zile

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    2358.jpg In fiecare an, intre 25 noiembrie (Ziua Internationala de Lupta impotriva Violentei asupra Femeii) si 10 decembrie (Ziua Internationala a Drepturilor Omului) se desfasoara Campania internationala a celor 16 Zile de Activism impotriva Violentei asupra Femeii. [despre campania din 2006]

    Pe 2007, tema aleasa este
    “Eliminand violenta impotriva femeilor prin cererea de implementari si abordarea obstacolelor”.

    Activitati oficiale organizate in Romania: Continue reading →