-----Original Message----- From: Nilg�n Lermio�lu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 7:02 AM To: GAINSNet Moderator Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Alex Seeland; KADER Subject: Ka.Der Turkey
Dear Friends, Please find attached [GAINSNetModerator: the text follows this message] the conclusion paper of the 2nd Conference of Women Parliamentarians of South Eastern Europe held in Istanbul 22/23rd March. Ka.Der Turkey whose mission is to promote women for politics and decision making posts , is very happy to have contributed to the meeting of women parliamentarians and look forward to cooperating with womens instutions working in the same avenue. Nilg�n Erdem Lermioglu ============= text 2nd Conference of Women Parliamentarians of South Eastern Europe March 22-23rd Istanbul Organized by International Institute for Democracy - Strasburg and Ka.Der - Turkey ( Support and Train Women for Politics ) CONCLUSIONS On 22nd and 23rd March 2002 , parliamentary delegations from Albenia,Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Crotia, Greece , the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Moldova ,Romania, Turkey and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia , as well as representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and the European Parliament met in Istanbul at the 2nd Conference of Women Parliementarians of South Eastern Europe, organized by IID and Ka.Der . The participants reviewed progress , since the first conference in Athens ( September 2002 ) and shortcomings in the establishment of national mechanisms to promote womens participation in the decision-making process. They also discussed the role of women in conflict prevention and resolution. They wished that a special part of EU structural funds should be earmarked and used for strengtening gender equality actions in each country. The participants welcomed the agreement concluded, in May 2001 in Ljublijana, between the Stability Pact Task Forces on Parliamentary Cooperation and on Gender, and decided to send a contribution with 10 recommendations to the Fifth European Ministrerial Conference on Equality between Women and Men to be held in Skopje in spring 2002. Recalling that the Council of Europe has a longstanding commitment to human rights and gender issues, the participants called on the Conference to adopt the following recommendations: 1- It be born in mind that gender mainstreaming in all domestic legislation is among the criteria for EU membership, and all existing domestic legislation be checked on gender mainstreaming and amended accordingly. 2- Equal access and full participation of women in decision making bodies be actively promoted by all institutions of the State, as these are indispersable conditions for the functioning of a democratic society; 3- Conditions be created for women and men in decision making bodies to reconcile professional and family life, e.g. by harmonizing the work sehedules of elected bodies with school time tables and holidays; 4- A legal framework be created in all countries of South Eastern Europe enabling womens organisations involved in conflict prevention , peace-building and reconciliation to work smoothly and to receive easily financial and material support from domestic or forign donors; 5- Support and training be provided to womens organisations enabling them to effectively lobby decision makers at both national and internaitonal level, urging them to take into acconut and respect international legal instruments directed to the resolution of conflicts; 6- Balanced representation be fostered in political life, in particular in those areas of defence, security and conflict prevention. 7- Multicultural, trans-border and regional womens inituatives for preventing and resolving conflicts be promoted and disseminated by all possible means including through networking and information technology; 8- Special attention be paid to convincing the media that hate speech and the glorification of violance be banned from audiovisual programmes and press articles; 9- All measures be taken to teach young people and especially girls and young women to integrate in their lifestyle the systematic refusal of every form of discrimination, be it for reasons of race, gender, belief or language; 10- Research into gender issues, conflict prevention and mediation by women in South Eastern Europe be fostered, and that means be made avilable to make the results widely known and used in designing domestic and regional policies. =========================================================================== This is GainsNet, the mailing list of the UN-INSTRAW-GAINS Network Members. To reply to the GainsNet group, click on "reply all" To reply to an individual, click on "reply" To unsubscribe from GainsNet, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject line
