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Rita B.

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Zhaneta Poposka

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Sonia Horonziak

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Center for Equal Opportunities “Mollëkuqja”

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Tania Ivanova

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Centar for Legal Research and Analysis https://cpia.mk/mk/ 

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Центар за правни истражувања и анализи

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Функционални анализи на правосудните институции

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OSCE Mission to Skopje

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The OSCE stands for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. With 57 States from Europe, Central Asia and North America, the OSCE is the world's largest regional security organization.

Our activities cover a wide range of security issues such as conflict prevention to fostering economic development, ensuring the sustainable use of natural resources & promoting the full respect of human rights and fundamental freedoms.

The OSCE has field presences in South-Eastern Europe, Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus and Central Asia.

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Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe

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The OSCE stands for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. With 57 States from Europe, Central Asia and North America, the OSCE is the world's largest regional security organization.

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Eva

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Institute of Public Affairs (Poland)

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Sustainable development and climate policy

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Media platform (www.mollekuqja.mk)

Social media (Facebook, Instagram)

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www.femfund.pl

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Stella Network

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Helsinki Committre for Human Rights- MHC

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Helsinki Committre for Human Rights- MHC

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The Vision of the Helsinki Committee is a society where all people enjoy their fundamental rights and freedoms and have an opportunity to protect them in cases of their violation and/or limitation.

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Реактор - Истражување во акција

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РЕАКТОР - ИСТРАЖУВАЊЕ ВО АКЦИЈА Е НЕЗАВИСНА ИСТРАЖУВАЧКА ОРГАНИЗАЦИЈА [THINK-TANK] СО СЕДИШТЕ ВО СКОПЈЕ, СЕВЕРНА МАКЕДОНИЈА. НАШИТЕ ГЛАВНИ ОБЛАСТИ НА РАБОТА СЕ РОДОВА ЕДНАКВОСТ, МЛАДИ И УРБАН РАЗВОЈ.

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Реактор - Истражување во акција

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Реактор - истражување во акција е независна истражувачка организација [think-tank] со седиште во Скопје, Северна Македонија. нашите главни области на работа се родова еднаквост, млади и урбан развој.

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Independent Gender Researcher & Stella Cofounder

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Independent Gender Researcher & Stella Cofounder

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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sara-milenkovska-7b08a818a/

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Member of the Expert Leader group for gender equality

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intersectionality

lgbtq+

gbv

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Wisg.org

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Disability, intersectionality, inclusive equality

Krik, enil, mcms

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Intersectionality

Gender Equality Law

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Networking, lobbying, meetings with MPs, exchange of experiences

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Communications - creating attractive and accessible content on feminism e.g. https://youtu.be/4PYW3KmIXOA?feature=shared

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Communications - creating attractive and accessible content on feminism e.g. https://youtu.be/4PYW3KmIXOA?feature=shared

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Research polls on Poles expectations on selected social issues (including gender issues):

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Research polls on Poles expectations on selected social issues (including gender issues):

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https://www.isp.org.pl/en/news/time-for-changes-what-poles-expect-on-selected-social-issues-and-how-to-reach-the-undecided-opinion-poll-results

Analysing women participation in the parliamentary elections:

https://www.isp.org.pl/en/publications/voting-or-winning-women-in-the-2023-parliamentary-elections-1324

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OSCE Mission, Skopje

Parliament

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Women's Initiatives Supporting Group WISG 

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Women's Initiatives Supporting Group WISG 

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The Mission's key priorities are advancing constructive inter-ethnic relations and supporting the further implementation of the 2001 Ohrid Framework Agreement and its essential pillars: anti-discrimination, education, decentralization, equitable representation, smaller communities and the use of languages. It works with authorities to implement reforms in areas such as elections, democratic policing, local governance and the judiciary. The Mission monitors and conducts regular visits to local communities and maintains a communication network with political representatives, civil society members, religious leaders and law enforcement officials.

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The Mission's key priorities are advancing constructive inter-ethnic relations and supporting the further implementation of the Ohrid Framework Agreement.

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SRHR non formal Geneva

Roma women regional network non formal

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Transnational "Anti-Gender" Movements and Resistance: Narratives and Interventions:

Feminist Autonomous Centre for research: https://feministresearch.org

and my own research on the topic +informal groups

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Professor Clare Hemmings and Professor Sumi Madhok of LSE's Department of Gender Studies talk here about their Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded network on Transnational "Anti-Gender" Movements and Resistance: Narratives and Interventions. The project, which launched in September 2021, will run for 16 months.
What are your research backgrounds?
Clare: I have a background in French and English literature and Women's Studies. Most of my research has been on storytelling and the ways stories about gender, feminism, LGBT and queer social movements have been told and institutionalised.

Sumi: My training is in political theory and I'm a self-taught feminist political theorist with an ethnographic sensibility. I combine theoretical and philosophical investigations with ethnographies of lived experiences and political struggles of marginalised groups.
What drew you to research this area and take part in the project?
Clare: This project comes out of our conviction and knowledge that the mobilisation of anti-gender politics across the globe is one of the most important political issues of our time.

Anti-gender movements can describe a wide range of right-wing and populist movements, which position themselves against feminism, LGBT and migrant rights, and critical-race theory. This positioning is central to how the claims of anti-gender movements are navigated, solidified and produced. So in Hungary, for example, the centrality of "anti-gender" arguments to the right-wing government's populist appeal means Gender Studies at the Central European University (CEU) can be closed by the combination of anti-feminist and anti-"foreigner" discourse. These are the kinds of overlaps and tensions that the project wants to map.

Sumi: This mobilisation of anti-gender politics takes place not only at election time to stoke up certain constituencies, but it is now increasingly finding its way into national parliaments where it is being used to reconfigure law and societies through state policymaking.

History tells us that political struggles by marginalised groups are always precarious and in danger of being wrested away in a blink of an eye. Many histories of rights are relatively recent, even within living memory of people around the globe. Many nations which legislated to give LGBTQ and abortion rights are now rolling these back. You can see this trend within the lifetime of one generation.

This mobilisation of anti-gender politics takes place not only at election time to stoke up certain constituencies, but it is now increasingly finding its way into national parliaments where it is being used to reconfigure law and societies through state policymaking.

- Professor Sumi Madhok

Can you outline the project and its key aims?
Sumi: The subtitle - Narratives and Interventions - says it all! We bring our own methodological expertise to the project. Clare's expertise is in narratives whereas I think about the political concepts that individuals and groups use to conduct their politics.

We look at these narratives in different parts of the world where different anti-gender questions are important. For example, in some countries, there are questions around transphobia, in others it's anti-abortion or anti-migrant sentiment. At many junctures, you see them all come together.

We explore how we can think about these questions transnationally as a large, global contemporary political moment.

In all of this, we must never forget that there are always movements resisting these forces. The march of history is never from one direction so there are always pushbacks and counter-discourses. The project holds both together - that's what makes it so exciting.

Clare: What has also been important is having a strong international advisory committee for the project. We have brought people together who have been doing this work for decades from different parts of academia and activist or policy locations.

One of the things that typifies anti-gender mobilisations is aggression so we wanted to provide a network that allows people to speak to others who they can build resistance with: locally, nationally and internationally.
As part of the project, you are holding a series of workshops bringing together scholars, activists and policymakers from around the globe. Can you tell us more about these workshops?
Sumi: The project includes four transnational workshops: two at LSE, one at SOAS and another in Brazil. We had a very successful first workshop in December 2022 which was attended by almost 300 people. Our next workshop takes place in April in Rio de Janeiro and it will look at the transnational and transregional politics of anti-gender in Latin America. Participating in it will be Brazilian and Latin American scholars and activists engaged with gender, sexuality, and human rights work.

Clare: We will also publish the material that comes out of the first workshop on the Engenderings blog, which is run by PhD students at LSE. Through this, everyone will have access to the papers, and the panel event from the December workshop is available in podcast form. We hope this ensures a broad audience can engage with the project.

One of the things that typifies anti-gender mobilisations is aggression so we wanted to provide a network that allows people to speak to others who they can build resistance with: locally, nationally and internationally.

- Professor Clare Hemmings

What have you found so far and what key themes have emerged?
Clare: It's common to think of "anti-gender" sentiments as part of what right-wing states or actors use to persuade people that they belong to that right-wing project. But as Sonia Corrêa (Director of Sexuality Policy Watch) shows, in Brazil, for example, the right-wing state (and the success of Bolsanaro) emerged out of, ie, subsequent to, the vicious anti-feminist, anti-black and anti-LGBT movements that characterised his claims to authority. So this was an interesting challenge to the idea of "anti-gender" sentiments as secondary effect.

Everyone in the workshops also said anti-gender activists use the language and narratives of victimisation and marginality to advance their claims. And it became extremely clear that the rolling back of sexual and gendered rights is predicated on framing those rights as privileges. This narrative strips rights from people from who have had few, if any, by appropriating the language of discrimination.

Sumi: We are also seeing a zero-sum approach in anti-gender movements ie, my rights can only exist if you don't have yours. This kind of discourse is inherently exclusionary and based on a long history of denying the humanity of various groups. The super swift rolling back of hard-won rights is not happening alone of course; what we're also witnessing is an institutional erasure of the histories of political struggles by marginalised groups, which in part explains the political zeal with which the teaching of critical race theory is under attack, as is that of empire, as are abortion rights, and as are rights of trans and non-binary peoples.
What have been some of the biggest challenges you have encountered so far on this project?
Clare: I think we underestimated the need for a project like this.

The other thing is the term "gender" and the phrase "anti-gender" don't just have life in terms of cultural discourses - such as contemporary culture wars - but they are also challenged within feminism, and that has been very draining.

Although feminism has always had many layers and positions, I've personally found it challenging to be confronted with an insistence on sexual and gendered essentialisms: the assumption that sex difference should be the basis for particular political claims.

What's difficult is not the arguments, as I have arguments for a living, but the hostility and the insistence that what we're doing is problematic from constituencies you wouldn't expect.

Sumi: One of things we look at as scholars and theorists is the way different and distinct political forces come together on a common platform often not deliberately but because their politics align along a common axis.

There are important questions to be asked about the transnational nature of these global political alignments and overlaps. For example, what kinds of political formations are being established on the platform of anti-gender in different parts of the world? And, how are these political alignments shaping laws and policies, including access to health care and economic activities? Furthermore, what is their impact on the quality of citizenship enjoyed by marginalised groups around the globe? And, finally, what are the modes of political resistance undertaken by marginalised groups who are often the targets of anti-gender mobilisations? And, what can we learn from the politics of resistance of the marginalised about non-exploitative and egalitarian ways of arranging our politics?

Find out more about the project and the upcoming workshops on the project webpage.

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Mapping anti-gender movements and resistance | LSE Research

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A new transnational project from LSE's Department of Gender Studies seeks to map and understand anti-gender movements around the globe.

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Expert leadership group (from Vesna's Presentation).

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Собрание на Република Северна Македонија - Почетна

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Собрание на Република Северна Македонија

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EQUAPRO - Regional EU Advocacy Network for Gender Mainstreaming (through the EU accession process)

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EQUAPRO - Regional EU Advocacy Network for Gender Mainstreaming (through the EU accession process)

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Реактор - Истражување во акција

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About
The Coalition for Gender Equality in the European Union (EU) Accession Process (EQUAPRO) is an informal coalition of women's rights organizations (WCSOs) in the Western Balkans (WB), which is advocating to improve attention to gender equality in the EU Accession process and to include more women and WCSOs in EU Accession-related political dialogues, policy processes, and as beneficiaries of EU external financing.
Mission
Considering that gender equality is a fundamental value of the EU, we seek to improve the accountability of the EU, governments and institutions in implementing commitments to gender equality and women's rights during the EU Accession process.
Background
Following more than three decades of informal cooperation and networking among WCSOs in the WB, often supported by the Kvinna till Kvinna Foundation, the Coalition was formalized in 2020 during the Action "Furthering Gender Equality through the EU Accession Process", co-funded by the EU and Sweden. While this Action ended, EQUAPRO continues to foster regional cooperation among WCSOs, establish research and gender analyses for informing policies, undertake evidence-based advocacy, and monitor reforms related to EU Accession, towards furthering gender equality in the WB through the EU Accession Process.
Join us
If you are a civil society organization working towards advancing gender equality, please join our Coalition by filling out the following form.
What does being a member of the EQUAPRO Coalition mean?
EQUAPRO is an informal coalition of WCSOs in the WB, which comes together to advocate for improved attention to gender equality in the EU Accession process and to include more women and WCSOs in EU Accession-related political dialogues, policy processes, and as beneficiaries of EU external financing. Being a member of the Coalition does not mean that your organization must join all advocacy efforts; you can choose which advocacy initiatives you want to support. All members are consulted when the Coalition undertakes advocacy initiatives, so that members have the opportunity to give their opinions. Membership is free and open to all non-governmental and civil society organizations committed to the EQUAPRO mission and that agree to the EQUAPRO Code of Conduct.
Members

1. Reactor - Research in Action, North Macedonia

2. The Kvinna till Kvinna Foundation, North Macedonia Office

3. Kosovo Women's Network, Kosovo

4. Albanian Women's Empowerment Network (AWEN), Albania

5. Rights for All, Bosnia and Herzegovina

6. Women's Rights Centre, Montenegro

7. Together for life, Albania

8. ALTRI - Albanian Legal and Territorial Research Institite, Albania

9. "Qendra e Gruas ""Hapa te Lehte"" / Women Center ""Light Steps""", Albania

10. "Ne Dobi Te Komunitetit / Useful to women, communities and people in need SH.D.F.K.SH.P", Albania

11. Albanian Women in Audiovisual - AWA, Albania

12. Gender Alliance for Development Centre, Albania

13. Center to Support Organizations "Censor", Bosnia and Herzegovina

14. United Women Foundation Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina

15. CURE Fondation, Bosnia and Herzegovina

16. Roma women Association "Bolja buducnost" city of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina

17. Gruaja Hyjnore, Kosovo

18. Minority communities center, Kosovo

19. EcoKosWomen - EKW, Kosovo

20. Committee of Blind Women of Kosovo, Kosovo

21. Advocacy Center for Democratic Culture - ACDC, Kosovo

22. Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, North Macedonia

23. Glasen Tekstilec, North Macedonia

24. Finance Think, North Macedonia

25. Rural Coalition, North Macedonia

26. Humanitarno Zdruzenie "Majka", North Macedonia

27. Women's Organization of Strumica, North Macedonia

28. "Savez slijepih Crne Gore / Union of the blind of Montenegro", Montenegro

29. Montenegrin LGBTIQ Association - Queer Montenegro, Montenegro

30. Institute Alternative (IA), Montenegro

31. "Zenska Alijansa za Razvoj / Women's Alliance for Development", Montenegro

32. Association Spectra

33. Association of Youth with Disabilities of Montenegro, Montenegro

34. "Fondacija ARKA / Foundation ARKA", Serbia

35. "Drustvo za Razvoj Kreativnosti / Association for Development of Creativity", Serbia

36. A 11 - Initiative for Economic and Social Rights, Serbia

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Coalition for Gender Equality in the EU Accession Process

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Реактор - истражување во акција е независна истражувачка организација [think-tank] со седиште во Скопје, Северна Македонија. нашите главни области на работа се родова еднаквост, млади и урбан развој.

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Personal activism, advocacy,  raining awareness also among  my personal circle of friends / family, as anti gender propaganda reached them also.

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Personal activism, advocacy,  raining awareness also among  my personal circle of friends / family, as anti gender propaganda reached them also.

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Central Europe Civic Engagement Project:

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Intersectional and solidarity approach

Feminist Methodologies and Research

Digital gender based violence and gendered disinformation

Community and coalition building

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CEDAW Reporting Process

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Gender Equality Law

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The gender platform

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Social media, Leader group for gender equalitt, meetings with institutions, CSOs, MPs and international organizations, Shadow reports and provision of direct services for GBV and SRHR, Capacity building for GBV and gender equality and Research

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Social media, Leader group for gender equalitt, meetings with institutions, CSOs, MPs and international organizations, Shadow reports and provision of direct services for GBV and SRHR, Capacity building for GBV and gender equality and Research

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Research, advocacy, empowerment and support to the different CSOs tackling the issue

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Prospera, the International Network of Women’s Funds

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Prospera, the International Network of Women’s Funds

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Supporting and resourcing feminist organizing

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informal support group of diverse individuals and organisations, institutions and public figures supporting gender HRDs and LGBTQI+ activists (existing for a year)

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Working with men and analysing masculinities, focus on caring perspectives

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Working with men and analysing masculinities, focus on caring perspectives

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Monitoring

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Esma Gumberidze

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Platform for New Opportunities

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Share your videos with friends, family, and the world

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European Democracy Youth Network/EDYN combats polarization in general

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European Democracy Youth Network/EDYN combats polarization in general

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Raising public awareness, social media, disability inclusion

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Raising public awareness, social media, disability inclusion

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Human Rights Defender

IREX Transform

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Transform Digital Spaces (Transform) Activity

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Gender Equality Platform, Eduthon. HRDs Lab

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Gender Equality Platform, Eduthon. HRDs Lab

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Minorities

Youth

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Human Constanta - Правозащитная организация

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Правозащитная организация Human Constanta собрала информацию о миграционной ситуации с "транзитными бежен_ками" и делиться на этой странице тематическим докладом. Мы называем эту ситуацию "гуманитарным кризисом" и рекомендуем, в том числе, организовать гуманитарный коридор для 1000 людей, которые всё ещё находятся на территории Беларуси.

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Gender Equalit

Women's Rights

Civic Engagement

Voter Empowerment

Inclusive Democracy

Youth and Woman Participation

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We're doing proper research using government websites and official sources, tailored to the specific focus of our activities. Our primary goal is to run social campaigns in SM aimed at increasing awareness among women voters about the importance of their participation in elections.