{"id":1111394,"date":"2015-12-01T17:51:32","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T17:51:32","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"kwn-members-hold-bimonthly-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womensnetwork.org\/sr\/kwn-members-hold-bimonthly-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"KWN Members Hold Bimonthly Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"

 On November 9, the Kosovo Women’s Network (KWN) held its regular bimonthly meeting, gathering 80 representatives from KWN member organizations, the Lobby for Gender Equality in Kosovo<\/a>, donors, friends and supporters. 
\n    Igballe Rogova, KWN Executive Director, welcomed participants. 
\n     Afterwards, Belgjyzare Muharremi, Executive Director of KWN member organization “Open Door<\/a>” (Dera e Hapur<\/i>) and a member of KWN’s Board of Directors, provided information about Freja Forum<\/a>, this year held for the first time in Kosovo on Nov. 6-8. For more detailed information on the Freja Forum 2015, please click here<\/a>. 
\n     After this presentation, Ms. Rogova officially announced that KWN has a new logo. 
\n     “Awareness among youth in Kosovo has increased, and they are mentioning ‘feminism’ more and more,” she said. “We thought that it would be a good time for us to use feminist symbols and change KWN’s logo. We need to explain to people that feminists don’t hate man, they fight for equal rights among women and men.” 
\n     Ms. Rogova then conveyed greetings from Vice President of the European Parliament, Ms. Ulrike Lunacek<\/a>, whom because of her tight agenda during her stay in Kosovo, could not participate in this KWN meeting. Ms. Rogova, on behalf of KWN, expressed gratitude for Ms. Lunacek’s work in support of Kosovo, including its EU<\/a> Integration. 
\n     Then, Feride Rushiti, Executive Director of Kosovo Rehabilitation Center for Torture Victims (KRCT)<\/a>, a KWN member, shared information regarding her participation in a three-day International Conference<\/a> for women’s rights and gender equality, involving international panelists, deputies of the Parliament of the Republic of Kosovo<\/a>, activists from Kosovo and the region. 
\n     Iliriana Banjska, Research Assistant at KWN, then provided an update on KWN’s research on the Labour Law, which aim to inform the new Labour Law with evidence-based findings on topics such as maternity and paternity leave. This research is driven by an official request from Minister of Labor and Social Welfare<\/a> Arban Abrashi for recommendations. This research is essential due to KWN’s belief that the new Labour Law should be drafted with citizens’ needs and experiences in mind. KWN will publicly launch this groundbreaking research soon. 
\n   Ms. Rogova thanked members of KWN and Lobby for their contribution to this research, emphasizing that “we will contribute to the creation of a better Labour Law not only for women, but for men also.” She thanked the women and men who volunteered, making this research possible. 
\n     Ms. Nicole Farnsworth, Lead Researcher at KWN, provided an update on the status of two research<\/a> initiatives on domestic violence and sexual harassment in Kosovo, respectively. 
\n     Ms. Rogova emphasized that “KWN is not active only during the ‘16 days against violence against women’ but it aims to work 365 days against violence.” Therefore KWN’s research will be published one before and then the other after the 16 days. 
\n     Donjeta Morina, Coordinator for Capacity Development in KWN then presented information regarding KWN’s work on Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB). KWN plans to launch a report on the budget of the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare (MLSW) and separately for the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MEST). KWN’s work on GRB is supported by the Austrian Development Agency and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)<\/a>. 
\n     Also, Donjeta Morina informed participants about the latest cooperation among KWN, the Agency for Gender Equality (AGE)<\/a> in the Office of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kosovo<\/a>, GIZ<\/a> and the Kosovo Institute for Public Administration (KIPA)<\/a> in redrafting the new KIPA curriculum on gender equality for civil servants. Redrafting the curriculum is very important given that the past couple of years have yielded a completely new legal and policy framework related to gender equality in Kosovo. This work is being supported by GIZ. 
\n     Ms. Rogova then informed participants about the campaigns “I DARE<\/a>” (UNË GUXOJ) that KWN started in collaboration with the Kosovo Lobby for Gender Equality, supported by the Dutch Embassy<\/a>, to promote legal frameworks that protect women and girls from discrimination, domestic violence, sexual harassment and other forms of gender based violence. “I Dare” is part of the Project for  Promoting Women’s Rights. For further details regarding the campaign, click here<\/a>. 
\n         As a member of the High-Level Advisory Group<\/a> for the study on the implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325 on Women, Peace and Security (2000)<\/a>, the KWN Executive Director Igballe Rogova made several contributions to this important study. Requested by the UN Secretary General and led by Radhika Coomaraswamy, the Global Study was commissioned to mark the 15th Anniversary of UNSCR 1325. For further details regarding this Study, click here<\/a>. The full version of the Study is here: Preventing Conflict, Transforming Justice, Securing the Peace: A Global Study on the Implementation of United Nations Security Council resolution 1325<\/i> (2015).<\/a>  
\nThe other information shared in this meeting was also regarding the beneficiaries of 8 round of KWF<\/span><\/a> <\/span>and the second part of the meeting was for KWN members only, where KWF was evaluated. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

 On November 9, the Kosovo Women’s Network (KWN) held its regular bimonthly meeting, gathering 80 representatives from KWN member organizations, the Lobby for Gender Equality in Kosovo, donors, friends and supporters.      Igballe Rogova, KWN Executive Director, welcomed participants.       Afterwards, Belgjyzare Muharremi, Executive Director of KWN member organization “Open Door” (Dera e Hapur) and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3333861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1111394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womensnetwork.org\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womensnetwork.org\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womensnetwork.org\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womensnetwork.org\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womensnetwork.org\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1111394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/womensnetwork.org\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womensnetwork.org\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3333861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womensnetwork.org\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1111394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womensnetwork.org\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1111394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womensnetwork.org\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1111394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}