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Jan 15 2021
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Sexual Harassment and Feminist Struggle in Groups

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About the Event: 

GEF together with the Green Thought Association is launching a year-long project on gender equality and green politics. Selected participants take part in monthly expert and activist workshops, building knowledge and creating video content on selected topics for wider dissemination.  

This workshop will be held online on the 25th of December, featuring as speaker Cemre Baytok, coordinator of Sexual Harassment Prevention Commission of Boğaziçi University. 

Programme:

20:30-21:00: Presentation from Cemre Baytok

21:00-22:00 Open discussion and Q&A

Practicalities: 

Participation in this workshop is closed, and participants have already been selected.  

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This project is organised by the Green European Foundation with the support of Green Thought Association and with the financial support of the European Parliament to the Green European Foundation.”

Jan 31 2020
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Gender Equality for Green Politics

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While gender equality is one of the basic policies of the Greens, it continues to face weak institutional mechanisms and poor representation in social life, legislative and executive power, politics, the economy, and many other areas of daily life in the Turkish society. With the support of the Turkish partner, GEF will organise a series of seminars as well as conference on the political and theoretical background of gender issues and the green response. The aim is to strengthen the feminist green network and provide a space for cross-European exchanges. 

Jan 31 2020
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Feminists in the Climate Movement

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About the project

Given Finland’s leading example in women’s leadership and political participation, GEF and its Finnish partner implemented a project in 2020 to support the growth of the green feminist movement across Europe. We wanted to highlight the connections between gender and climate justice, while empowering leaders and activists to become active in their own communities and across Europe.

Building on this successful pilot with our first generation of Feminist Climate Ambassadors, we are joined this year by three new partners from the UK, Belgium, and Poland to expand our training programme and also host relevant events and materials for the general public.

Feminist Climate Ambassadors

In February, we launched a call for our new group of Feminist Climate Ambassadors–activists, social media influencers, academics, politicians, and first timers in change making who share the goal of climate action through a feminist lens. Selected participants have been taking part in a transnational training programme. This comprises a participatory online training course, and a study trip to either the COP26 in Glasgow or Ecopolis, and the European Parliament in Brussels. The course aims to build safer spaces, where feminists can learn tactics, share their experiences, and network with other activists for a sustainable future. International experts provide our participants with training on capacity-building, movement-building, and campaign strategies, empowering them to launch their own projects, outreach, and initiatives.

Webinar Series and Summer Schools

Besides the closed training course, this project also aims to highlight the gendered aspects and impacts of the climate crisis and raise awareness to a broader audience. To that end, we are organising a webinar series touching on topics like gender and economics, gender mainstreaming in EU policies, and ecofeminism. Additionally, our Climate Feminist Summer School and session at the Polish Green Days provide further opportunities for interested participants to learn, discuss, and network with a particular eye on COP26.

Round Tables and Publications

Throughout the year, we will publish outputs and materials that highlight some of the project’s key lessons, including a booklet to be released in early 2022 on ecofeminism and its meaning today. This booklet is accompanied by a series of round tables, where interested participants will have the chance to discuss its content and give feedback and input of their own.

Related Videos

 

Related Reading and Publications

Closing statement of the 2020 generation of Feminist Climate Ambassadors

SAFE – A Guide for People Targeted by Online Violence

COP26: Feminist Climate Ambassadors statement

 

Feb 26 2019
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Eco Podium Gender Equality (Budapest)

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Event Background

This seminar in Hungary is part of a series of events and studies on the implementation of the United Nation’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals, started by our project partner Ecopolis who previously looked at the SDGs 1 (Eradicating poverty), 2 (Ending hunger) and 4 (Ensuring inclusive and equitable education).

This upcoming event will focus particularly on SDG 5 – Achieving gender equality and empowering all girls and women.

About the Event

This seminar will bring together experts on gender equality policies and sustainable development, as well as NGO representatives, policy-makers and academics.

Discussions will focus on the following aspects in the context of the upcoming Eco Podium:

  • Recognising and assessing unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services and infrastructure, through social protection policies and by promoting shared responsibility within the household and the family, in line with national specificities.
  • Ensuring full and effective participation and equal opportunities for women at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life at all levels of decision-making.
  • Adopting and reinforcing sound policies and enforceable legislation to promote gender equality and strengthen the social role of all women and girls at all levels.

Programme

17:30 – 17:45: Introduction – Gender Equality in the SDG:

  • Dr. János Zlinszky, associate professor

17:00 – 17:45: Ending All Discrimination Against Women & Girls Everywhere

  • Borbála Juhász, former president of the Women’s Confederation

18:00-18:15: We ensure full and effective participation of women, as well as equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in politics, economics and public life.

  • Kata Keveházi

18:15-18:30:  We enhance the use of technologies that increase capabilities and relationships, especially information and communication technology to strengthen the position of women.

  • Anna Réz

18:30 – 19:10: Debate & Q&A

  • Moderation: Krisztina Bombera, journalist

19:10 – 19:30: Coffee Break 

19:30 – 19:45: We will eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls in the public and private sectors, including trafficking, sexual and other forms of exploitation.

  • Sára Halász

19:45 – 20:00: We recognize and appreciate unpaid caring and housework by providing public services, infrastructure and social networks, and promoting shared responsibility within the household and family.

  • Anikó Gregor

20:00 – 20:15: We provide full access to sexual and reproductive health services and reproductive rights with the International Conference on Population and Development Action Program.

  • Sarolta Kremmer

20:15 – 20:55: Debate & Q&A

  • Moderation: Krisztina Bombera, journalist

Registration

Entrance is free but registration is required.

Please register for the event via the form found here. 

This event is organised with the support of Ecopolis.

You can join the Facebook event for this seminar here.