Towards Ratifying the Istanbul Convention

«Promotion of Women’s and Feminist Initiatives for [the] Ratification [of] the Istanbul Convention and Counteraction [against] Anti-Gender Initiatives in the Region» — Under this project title, the Centre of Women’s Perpectives (Ukraine) and their project partners from other EaP countries advocate for a speedy ratification of the Istanbul Convention for the protection of women in the Eastern Partnership region.

Lead organisation
Partner organisations
  • Women’s Resource Centre (Armenia)
  • Women’s Political Resource Centre (Georgia)
  • Organization of popular education, ABF (Belarus)
  • Mothers of large families and women – entrepreneurs of Gagauzia, Vesta (Moldova)
  • Women’s Association for Rational Development (Azerbaijan)
Project duration
  • launched in March 2020 with a duration until December 2020
Project aim
  • The project develops a joint strategy for addressing religious and right-wing extremist anti-gender initiatives that target women’s rights and the ratification of the Istanbul Convention in EaP countries.
  • The strategy will be developed on the basis of learning strategies and convoyed activities used for ratification/ implementation of the Istanbul Convention in Georgia,  and on examples of other countries that have successfully ratified the Convention.

 

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Further information about this project will be updated in a timely manner, and as soon as available to the Secretariat of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum.