16 days against violence

3.12.2021

Students of the ER IHIRSPS took part in the online lecture within the annual All-Ukrainian action. 

On November 30, 2021, within the annual All-Ukrainian action “16 Days Against Violence”, an online lecture “Gender Equality. UN Security Council Resolution 1325 and CMMˮ, organized with the assistance of Associate Professor of the Department of Social Work Kateryna Ihnatenko.

Representatives of the monitoring mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and Asia (OSCE) Zamira Isakova, observer of the OSCE monitoring mission Priya Joshi, gender coordinator of the OSCE SMM in the Luhansk region, as well as translators Tetiana and Viktoria are invited to the event. For education applicants majoring in “International Relations”, “Social Work”, “Sociology” and “Political Science”, a presentation was made on the activities of the OSCE SMM on the demarcation line, as well as an overview of the gender challenges that Ukrainians face during the armed conflict in the east of Ukraine.

The meeting was held in an interactive form, students shared their own experience of crossing the uncontrolled territory, asked questions about the possibilities of building a career in international organizations. But the discussion on the question “Is it necessary to change the old concept of a man-applicant and a woman-keeper of the hearth?” The audience came to the conclusion that yes, of course, it is necessary! If such gender norms promote violence, harm someone, and the majority of the population disagrees, then they need to be changed.

The participants in the meeting expressed a desire to continue such meetings, to learn more about gender issues in the world and in Ukraine, in order to understand the essence of gender conflicts and further spread leading ideas and fight violence in Ukraine.

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