Bulgarian Gender Research Foundation - Projects page
an independent NGO promoting: social justice, gender equality and human rights through research, education, legislative changes, advocacy programs
an independent NGO promoting: social justice, gender equality and human rights through research, education, legislative changes, advocacy programs
a joint initiative of the Bulgarian Gender Research Foundation / BGRF/, the Network of East-West Women / NEWW/ and the Center for Reproductive Rights /CRR
This unique international project is implemented for the second time in Bulgaria in the period June 2007- May 2009. The main objective of the Institute is building the capacity of lawyers in CEE for bringing women’ s rights cases at international level- before the ECtHR, the CEDAW Committee, the Human Rights Committee. The focus areas of the training in the Institute are violence against women, reproductive rights of women and gender discrimination in employment. The project comprises also maintaining and supporting the network of fellows of the Institute and supporting strategic litigation.
After a thorough review / about 70 applications were received/ , the partners selected 20 participants from the region. The First session took place in Sofia in the period 9- 13 November 2007. The agenda contains sessions on:
The pool of lecturers comprise Prof. Maja Eriksson/ Sweden/ and Dr. Ivana Radacic/ Croatia, fellow of the Institute/, Prof. Isabel Marcus / USA, NEWW/ and Genoveva Tisheva / BGRF/ , Milena Kadieva/ Bulgaria, fellow of the Institute/, Colette de Troy / Belgium/, Christina Zampas / CRR/ and Dr. Adriana Lamackova / Slovakia, fellow of the Institute/, Daniela Draghici / Romania/, Dr. Susanne Burri / The Netherlands/, Plamenka Markova / Bulgaria/.
After the session a meeting of the fellows of the first round of the WHRTI took place/ 14- 15 November/. The participants in this meeting decided to establish a new European Network of Feminist Lawyers for strategic litigation on gender equality and women’ s rights.
The Second session will take place in the period 3- 9 April 2008 in Bulgaria and will focus on the main international mechanisms for protection of women’ s rights in the three thematic fields and on the existing case law.
Two moot- court sessions will follow in the fall of 2008 and in Spring 2009- on using the ECtHR and the CEDAW Optional Protocol for the protection of Women’ s rights.
The Institute is active since 2004 thanks to the support of OSI- Budapest, the Center for Reproductive Rights, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Global Fund for Women and Mama cash.
Partners - BGRF- Bulgarian Gender Research Foundation , Prof. Isabel Marcus, NEWW- Network of East- West Women and Christina Zampas, CRR- Center for Reproductive Rights
Coordination- BGRF:
Genoveva Tisheva- Director
Teodora Tsanovska and Tania Ivanova - Coordinators Second round of the WHRTI
16 November 2007