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REWIND NET is the network of women's information and documentation centres from 14 countries, mostly post-communist countries from Central and Eastern Europe and some from Middle Asia. The countries involved are: Albania, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Croatia, Estonia, Hungary, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia and Ukraine. |
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Network of women's information and documentation centres from 14 countries, mostly post-communist countries from Central and Eastern Europe and some from Middle Asia.
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6th
seminar, May 12.-13., 2006: Baku, Azerbaijan
- "Annual REWIND NET meeting"
REWIND NET annual meeting took place in
Baku, Azerbaijan
on May 12.-13. 2006 thank to our host Azerbaijan
Gender Information Centre. Firstly, the
coordinater of the REWIND NET, Djurdja Knezevic,
spoke about the current state of the art
of the REWIND NET. Secondly, the represenatives
presented the work and achievements of the
each centre during the last year. Thirdly,
we discussed about the future activities
and the structure of the network. The centralized
network will be reformed so that 3 subregional
networks (South East, South Caucasus and
Central Asia, Nord East) will work independently
but will cooperate when needed. Also, two
guests were present on the meeting: Galina
Petriashvili presented the journalists'
association Gender Media Caucasus and Rovshan
Akperov presented the CiscoNetworking Academy
Program as well as CISCO Learning Institute
Gender Initiative.
For more details about the annual meeting,
see report... |
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January
2006, Zagreb, Croatia: Sub-regional Meeting
On January 2006 1st meeting of the sub-regional
women's Network was held in Zagreb and brought
together representatives from the following
sub-regional centres: Anima ŽINEC - Kotor,
INDOC Centar - Beograd, Infocentar - Skopje,
Ženska infoteka - Zagreb, Ženske studije
i istraživanja - Novi Sad.
Many suggestions for the future and ideas
for the improvement of our activities came
up, as well as a fruitful discussion on
the strategies for their implementation.
First of all, the coordinators of national
centres reported on the situation and development
of their centres and how they participated
in sub-regional project (Women's Info -
Documentation Centres Network).
Ženska infoteka reported on overall activities
of the Network.
The starting point in discussion further
on was the need for more efficiant organization
of the Network in the future. We all agreed
that therefore, Network needs decentralisation
of work. We have already learned a lot and
opposite to the situation in the beginning
of the REWiND NET, both the material resources
and the know-how are now more or less equivalently
distributed throughout the sub-region. Therefore
we can all gain and produce more in the
overall cooperation and equal participation
than in the situation of having a tutor
centre. Report... |
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December 10.-11., 2004: Tallinn, Estonia -"Annual REWIND NET meeting"
REWIND NET annual meeting took place in Tallinn, Estonia on December 11 - 12 2004 thank to our host Estonian Women's Studies and Resource Centre. At the meeting the participants mainly discussed issues to be done in upcoming year. The main goal of this annual meeting was an attempt to solve some of the problems the Network is facing (existence of Network, funding, commitment to common work, communication.). For more details about annual meeting, list of participants and agenda see report. |
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November 11.-13., 2004: Prague, Czech Republic - Open Society Institute Network Women's Program Annual meeting: "Building the future of our women's movements"
The goals for the Prague meeting were: to reflect on the changes that have happened at the national, regional and network levels; to identify what works and what does not work and to find solutions for further effective development; to provide individualized technical assistance to institutional partners and women's programs; to learn experiences of transition from other partner programs, networks and organization.
NWP invited key representatives of global and regional networks, and representatives of the OSI network from outside Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union in order to: ensure that the original OSI region can make a difference at key 2005 fora and to identify connecting themes and issues between different regions; provide space for critical thinking on the role of the women's movement in the new geo-political reality; share plans and develop ideas for strategic cooperation among regions and networks.
The meeting consisted of various discussion sessions, to mention just a few: "The Global Women's Movement - 10 years after Cairo, 9 years after Beijing, 2 years after Guadalajara: Changes, Challenges, Agendas for the Future -Cross Regional Perspectives", "Media Strategies by and for Women - Integration? Co-optation? Manipulation?", "Are Gender Studies a Threat to National Security? The Politics of Introducing Gender Sensitive Education", "Beyond Tokenism: What Do Roma Women Really Want?", "The War on Women: The Need for Critical Reflection on Violence against Women. Perspectives from Around the Globe", "Reproductive Rights and Health: The Long Road from Cairo to London and Beyond". Several REWIND NET representatives attended the meeting. |
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September, 2004: Berlin/Germany - Conference "Gender and Democracy"
The National Council of German Women's Organizations (Deutscher Frauenrat) organized international women's conference Gender and Democracy taking place in Berlin from 11th to 13th September 2004. The conference focused on the following issues: European and international women's rights, new forms of women's participation and strategies of ensuring political and social equality for women. The main panels were: "Women's Human Rights and Their Significance in a National and Global Context" by Gertrude Mongella; "Options and Limitations of Women's Participation in the European Union" by Lydia la Riviere-Zijdel; "Women's Rights in a Globalizing World - Possibilities and Limits of International Organizations" and "Women's Rights in a Globalizing World - Possibilities and Limits of Women's NGOs". Representative of REWIND NET took part in this conference. More info about The National Council of German Women's Organizations and the conference on www.frauenrat.de |
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June, 2004: Vienna/Austria - "Milena-talks"
Milena.talk gathered several women feminists active in the media and networking to talk and share experience in dealing with media, weather as journalists or as publisher of the media as well as women who are experienced in networking. Two panels has been organized: "New perspectives for female journalists in the enlarged EU?" and "Cross-border co-operations in networking and lobbying". Following experts took part in panel discussions: Djurdja Knezevic, chief editor of the magazine Bread & Roses, Zagreb and coordinator of REWIND NET; Alexandra Bader, Ceiberweiber, Vienna; Jana Cvikova, Aspekt, Bratislava; Petra Stuiber, Die Welt, Der Standard, Vienna; Katerina Krausova, Press agency CTK, Prague; Susanne Riegler, ORF; Andrea Scheutz, Institut Frauensache, Vienna; Suzana Tratnik, SKUC-Lambda, Ljubljana; Nevenka Sudar, B.a.B.e., Zagreb; Daniela Yeoh, DieStandard.at, Vienna and Brigitte Handlos, Frauennetzwerk Medien, Vienna. More about milena.talk cross-boarder women's network in Austria www.milena.at |
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February, 2004: Ohrid/Macedonia
Kimberly Middleton, co-ordinator from OSI-NWP and Djurdja Knezevic, co-ordinator of REWIND NET participated in a work of regional conference: "Strategies for the Gender/Women Studies in Southeastern Europe" organized by Research Center in Gender Studies - Euro Balkan Institute. See more on: www.euba.org.mk and www.identities.org.mk |
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December, 2003: Zagreb/Croatia - "REWIND NET annual meeting"
As every year since 2000, the Network had its annual meeting discussing many aspects of its work and evaluating its program and strategies. |
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November, 2003:Paris/France - "European Social Forum
Djurdja Knezevic, coordinator of REWIND NET visited ESF in Paris and presented the network. |
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October 2003: VIENNA/AUSTRIA - "Women Crossing the Digital Divide"
Conference on empowerment through information, 5 speakers were discussing the significance of modern information and communication technologies for the socio-economic development in the countries of South. Speakers were: Susane Georg, coordinator of ISIS International - Manila, Philippines, Doroty Okello, coordinator of Women of Uganda Network |
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