ProEquality Centre
The main mission of the ProEquality Centre is to utilize the research and action to empower women on the economic, social, and political level. This means that ProEquality takes part in different research projects and conducts its own analysis and reports on the topics that influence the advancement of women. It is our conviction that these outcomes must then transform into advocacy activities towards the policy and decision makers and into the educational activities for public and private organizations.
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Policy Responses to Prostitution in the Czech Republic - Conference Summary
Prague, 14. 12. 2011
On September 21, 2011 a conference Increasing Competence in the Creation of Policy Responses to Prostitution in the Czech Republic under the auspices of the Prague City Hall (with Prague City Councillor Peter Dolínek) took place in the City Hall premises. The conference comprised of three workshops featuring expert presentations with extensive interactive sessions (discussions and questions/answers) with the audience. The presentations included the results of a Policy Delphi study, analysis of different models on regulating prostitution, a legal analysis of the Czech proposal and a media discourse analysis of the prostitution. Conference presentations and conclusions are now available. More
Invitation to a seminar Gender Matters
Prague, 25. 8. 2011
The ProEquality Centre of the Open Society, p.b.c. in cooperation with the United Nations Information Centre Prague and One World Action invites you to capacity building seminar for Czech non-governmental development organisations Gender Matters. The training will take place on Tuesday 13 September 2011 in the United Nations House in Prague. More
New project: Increasing Competence in the Creation of Policy Responses to Prostitution in the Czech Republic
Prague, 20. 8. 2011
The ProEquality Centre is implementing a new project in 2011 - 2012 Increasing Competence in the Creation of Policy Responses to Prostitution in the Czech Republic. The primary aim of this project is to raise awareness among the policy and decision makers in the Czech Republic on issues related to various policy choices in regulating prostitution. The project is funded by Friedrich Ebert Stiftung CZ and supervised by Blanka Hančilová (Univesity of Vienna) and Barbara Havelkova (University of Oxford, Exeter College). More
Joint statement on International Women's Day: The Need for Women’s Full Participation in All Areas of Peace and Security to Enhance Conflict Prevention and Ensure Sustainable Peace
Brussels, 8. 3. 2011
The ProEquality Centre has signed up to the joint statement of civil society organisations calling for the full participation of women in all areas of peace and security. The 100th anniversary of the International Women's Day provides an opportunity to reiterate one of the key recommendations of UNSCR 1325, which has also been identified as one of the five priorities for the work of UN Women: Strengthening implementation of the women, peace and security agenda, through women’s full participation in conflict resolution and peace processes, gender‐responsive early warning, protection from sexual violence and redress for its survivors in accordance with UN resolutions. More
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Interview with the British Ambassador to the Czech Republic on the ocassion of International Women's Day
Prague, 8. 3. 2011
“I hope that we can act as role models to encourage more girls and young women to aspire to contribute to the future development of our countries,“ says the British Ambassador to the Czech Republic H.E. Sian MacLeod in an interview given to the ProEquality Centre of the Open Society, p.b.c. on the occasion of International Women’s Day. More
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Invitation to panel discussion WOMEN CREATING A SECURE WORLD
Prague, 6. 10. 2010
Forum 2000 Foundation, ProEquality Centre of the Open Society, p.b.c., UN Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, and UN Information Centre Prague are pleased to invite you to the panel discussion "Women Creating a Secure World." The discussion is an associated event of the Forum 2000 Conference “The World We Want to Live in.“ More
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10 POINTS ON 10 YEARS UNSCR 1325 IN EUROPE
Prague, 8. 9. 2010
On the occasions of the 10th anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security, civil society organisations have released a Position Paper 10 POINTS ON 10 YEARS UNSCR 1325 IN EUROPE. Over 60 organisations and networks explicitly align themselves with its recommendations. The ProEquality Centre/Open Society, p.b.c. has signed the document on behalf of the Czech Women’s Lobby and the Czech Forum for Development Cooperation (FoRS). More
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UNSCR 1325 IN EUROPE: 21 case studies of implementation
Prague, 22. 7. 2010
New case studies publication on implementation of UNSCR 1325 on women, peace, and security has been released by the European Peacebuilding Liasson Office (EPLO). The publication examines the efforts of civil society in advocacy for implementation of UNSCR 1325 in 21 European countries. The case study for the Czech Republic has been prepared by the ProEquality Centre. More
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CCR GENDER POLICY
Prague, 22. 7. 2010
The ProEquality Centre carried out a gender audit of the Humanitarian and Development Aid Department of Caritas Czech Republic (CCR) and drawing on the audit’s results formulated a CCR Gender Policy. More
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Gender Policy Brief of Czech Forum for Development Cooperation
Prague, 10. 6. 2010
Czech Forum for Development Cooperation has released a Policy Brief Gender Equality and Women‘s Empowerment: Towards More Equitable and Effective Development Cooperation in the Czech Republic. The Policy Brief calls upon the Czech policy makers and practitioners to place gender equality issues at the center of development cooperation. More>
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SHADOW REPORT BEIJING + 15
Prague, 3. 6. 2010
The ProEquality Centre of the Open Society, p.b.c. has released a new publication the Shadow Report on the Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action in the Czech Republic (Beijing +15). The publication contains a summary of all 12 critical areas including the international level from the original extensive report Women and the Czech Society published in Czech language. The summary of the most important findings and conclusions is primarily intended for the foreign public and those interested in the state of fulfilment of the commitments in the area of gender equality in the Czech Republic. More>
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Preliminary Report: Who Makes the News (GMMP)
Prague, 1. 4. 2010
The initial findings from the GMMP 2009/2010 have been presented at a panel event during the session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women by the WACC/UNIFEM in New York in March 2010. Report Who Makes the News contains collected data from 40 countries and case studies on the good and bad practice in media.
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Week of Action Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the IWD
Prague, 23.2.2010
The Czech Women's Lobby and the ProEquality Centre would like to invite you to a week of events celebrating the 100th anniversary of the International Women's Day. The events take place between the March 8 to 12, 2010. More>
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Minifestival: Women, Men and the Society in the 21st Century
Prague, 15. 2. 2010
The Centre ProEquality and the Czech Women's Lobby kindly invites you to a minifestival of social ads about women, men and society in the 21st century. The date of the screening is 9 March 2010 between 6-8 p.m. in the cinema Světozor. Admission is free. More>
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CASE Roundtable: Mainstreaming Gender into Development and Internal Evaluations
Prague, 9. 2. 2010
The ProEquality Centre is cooperating with the Czech Forum for Development Cooperation (FoRS) on the preparation of CASE Roundtable Mainstreaming Gender into Development and Internal Evaluations.The event will take place on February 18 - 19, 2010 in Prague. Among the participants will be representatives of the national platforms from V4 countries, Czech NGDOs, development experts and media. More
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Research paper on the subject of Czech Development Cooperation and its gender dimension
Prague, 28. 1. 2010
Blanka Šimůnková, an independent development worker and an external expert of the ProEquality Centre, has been engaged in a research on the subject of Czech Development Cooperation and its gender dimension including their respective historical and social trends. She submitted the research thesis Gender Questions in Development Cooperation: Emerging Issues in the Czech Republic’s Bilateral Programmes as part of her Masters degree in the field of Women, Gender and Development at the prestigious Institute of Social Studies in the Hague, the Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. More
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Civil Society Recommendations on the Implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 in Europe
Prague, 2. 12. 2009
The ProEquality Centre of the Open Society supports the recommendations of the civil society organisations from Europe concerning the implementation of UN SCR 1325. The document was drafted during an international conference, jointly organised by the Initiative for Peacebuilding (IfP), the European Peacebuilding Liaison Office (EPLO) and International Alert in September 2009 in Brussels. The recommendations are divided into two parts: first part is focusing on the issue of National Action Plans, and second part is addressing the EU Institutions.
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Conference Women in Armed Conflicts and Peace Processes
Prague 25. 11. 2009
The Czech Women’s Lobby cordially invites you to the conference Women in Armed Conflicts and Peace Processes: Conference on the Implementation of the UN Security Council Resolutions 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, and 1820 on Immediate Cessation of Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones. The conference will take place on Tuesday 8th December 2009 from 9:30 to 16:30 at Kaunický Palace in Prague. The conference participants include among others Eva Zillén, member of the Swedish organisation Kvinna till Kvinna, Rada Boric, Croatian academic and an expert on the subject of violence on women in conflict, and Jana Hybášková, former Member of the European Parliament. Furthermore, there will be an evening projection of the documentary film Pray the Devil Back to Hell, as the accompanying event of the conference. More
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The Debate Universal Human Rights for Women?
Prague, 7. 10. 2009
Forum 2000 Foundation and the ProEquality Centre of the Open Society, p.b.c. invites you to the debate Universal Human Rights for Women? The State of Women’s Human Rights in the Muslim Countries. The debate will take place on Monday 12th October 2009 from 18:00 to 19:30 in the Large Hall of the Goethe Institute (Masarykovo nábřeží 32, Prague 1). The debate is an associated event of the Forum 2000 conference “Democracy and Freedom in a Multipolar World“ which is taking place in Prague between October 11 - 13, 2009. More
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Gender Equality: a Marginal Issue during the Czech Presidency?
Prague, 7. 10. 2009
The latest newsletter of WIDE (Women In Development Europe) includes an article about the Czech Presidency of the EU written by the ProEquality Centre experts Tereza Wennerholm Čáslavská and Míla Lukášová. The article Gender Equality: a Marginal Issue during the Czech Presidency? discusses the gender equality goals achieved during the Czech Republic’s Presidency and points out some of the deficiencies which come to surface when comparing the Czech six month period to other presidencies. The authors conclude that on the whole “the Czech presidency demonstrated a lack of expertise and political will in terms of gender equality priorities at both EU level and in external relations.” More
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27. 7. 2009
In their latest initiative, the Elders call on the global leaders to end the use of religious and traditional practices to justify and entrench discrimination against women and girls.
The Elders is an independent group of prominent world leaders brought together by Nelson Mandela in 2007. As said by one of the Elders Mary Robinson: „Part of the wisdom of the Elders is to remind the world that we actually have universal values that are accepted by every government in the world and yet they are not being implemented.”
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The Czech Contribution to an Effective Gendered Development
Prague, 10. 7. 2009
On the occasion of the Czech Republic’s Presidency of the Council of the EU in the first half of 2009, the Czech NGDOs platform FoRS carried out an ambitious ‘presidency’ project. The project came to a close on June 23-24, when the international conferencethe Civil Society Organizations Development Effectiveness, organized by FoRS in close cooperation with the European confederation CONCORD, was held in Prague as the official associated event of the Czech EU Presidency. The report on the conference workshop Gender and Development, the final Prague Conference Proclamation, and the publication CSO Development Effectiveness – Searching New Ways are now available. More>
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New Study: Development Effectiveness and Gender: the Czech Experience
Prague, 29. 6. 2009
The FoRS presidency project, realized on the occasion of the Czech Republic’s presidency of the Council of the EU, has come to its final stage with the last week’s international conference held in Prague. The conference participants received a publication CSO Development Effectiveness - Searching New Ways which is conceived as a Czech Contribution to the Global Process of Civil Society Organizations Development Effectiveness. The ProEquality Centre has coordinated one of the priority themes of the project, gender and development, and contributed to the publication with its study Development Effectiveness and Gender: the Czech Experience. More>
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Being a Czech mate can cause women pain and suffix
26. 6. 2009
An article about the ProEquality expert Lucie Kundra has been issued in today‘s Los Angeles Times under the heading Being a Czech mate can cause women pain and suffix. The article discusses the question of the Czech custom of adding the suffix "ova" at the end of women surnames.
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Gender in Quality Standards
Prague, 11.6.2009
The Centre ProEquality starts a new project on the Gender in Quality Standards. The general objective is to raise awareness in all interested parties (enterprises, employers’ associations, agencies who issue norms and regulations, accreditation agencies, certification agencies, training agencies, social parts, consultants) with regard to the meaning and value of gender differences to be implemented within Quality Systems procedures. The project is a cooparation with the Italian partner, Progetto Donna, who developed training modules which introduces a gender perspective into organisation operations. More>
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ProEquality Centre is the national coordinator for the Global Media Monitoring Project 2009/2010
Prague, 11.6.2009
The Global Media Monitoring Project is the largest and longest longitudinal study on the representation of women in the world’s media. It is also the largest advocacy initiative in the world on changing the representation of women in the media. It is unique in involving participants ranging from grassroots community organizations to university students and researchers to media practitioners, all of whom participate on a voluntary basis. More >
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ProEquality at the Ministerial Conference on New Ways to Overcome Gender Stereotypes
Prague, 26 May 2009
Petra Kubalková and Tereza Wennerholm Čáslavská from the ProEquality Centre will be presenting the main conclusions from their analyses on the Medias and advertisements' impact on the equal opportunities of men and women on the Ministerial conference which is held during the Czech Presidency and takes place on Wednesday May 27, 2009. More >
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AID WATCH 2009 urges governments to deliver on promises to gender equality and women’s empowerment
Prague, 22 May 2009
Under the umbrella of CONCORD, the European NGO Confederation for Relief and Development, European NGOs have prepared Aid Watch Report 2009 which evaluates development policies and pledges made on the level of the EU as well as the national governments. The new report has been released on 15 May 2009 in Brussels and other EU capitals, including Prague, under the heading „Lighten the Load: In a time of crisis, European aid has never been more important.“ The Czech national platform FoRS and some of its organizations, including the ProEquality Centre of the Open Society, p.b.c. have participated on the preparation of this report. More>
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