The Gender Task Force works on three pillars:

1. increasing public awareness of women's political participation in elections and political processes in general;
2. reform of existing electoral systems and legislation where needed to promote women's political participation;
3. establish governmental institutions to promote gender equality and improve and strengthen existing mechanisms.

In the first phase, the Task Force will:

• get more programming and reporting on women's political participation through Media / Information Campaigns;
• obtain necessary information for women in SEE to develop essential skills to run for office and increase their electability;
• analyze legislation and practices in SEE from a gender perspective.

Latest Developments

• INFO: Council of Europe launches European campaign to stop violence against women in the home
  
  

• First Women Ministers Conference: SEE Women in Politics and their vision of Europe. The Ministerial Conference is foreseen as the first of a number of regular conferences (annually or biannually) of women ministers, which would monitor the process of gender mainstreaming in their countries    [Event & Programme]
  
  

• CALL FOR PAPERS
  GENDER STEREOTYPES IN MEDIA:
  REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN IN PRINT MEDIA IN SOUTHEAST EUROPE MEDIACENTAR SARAJEVO
  
  
• Gender Task Force Report, Regional Table in Prague - 15 - 16 November 2005
• Gender Equality in SEE, 6 years later (September 2005)
• Gender TF Progress Report, Regional Table in Sofia - 17-19 May 2005
• Gender Equality in SEE, 5 years of Making (1999-2004)
• Progress Report, January-June 2004, presented in Portoroz, 7 June 2004
• Gender Landscape in SEE - Matrix (July 2004)
• National Reports (2002 -2003)
• Progress Report May 2003
• Observation of FYRMacedonia Elections
• Progress Report June 2002
• Status and Challenges for gender Equality in FRY
• 2nd Conference of Women Parliamentarias of South Eastern Europe, Istanbul, 22-23 March 2002
• Statement by the Special Co-ordinator, describing the role and achievements of the Gender Task Force
• Short Report From SP GTF Chair's Mission in Macedonia
• Agreement between Gender Task Force and Human Trafficking Task Force
• Spot Report: Women's Activism Prior to Serbian Elections on September 24, 2000
• Spot Report: The Situation of Women in Politics in Kosovo

Task Force Meetings

• Spot Report: GTF Meeting 6, 12 July 2002
• Spot Report: GTF Meeting 5, 18-19 May 2001
• Spot Report: GTF Meeting 4, 10-11 February 2001
• Spot Report: GTF Meeting 3, 21 October 2000
• Spot Report: GTF Meeting 2, 26 April 2000
• Spot Report: GTF Meeting 1, 8 November 1999

Newsletter

• Newsletter 04/2005
• Newsletter 03/2005
• Newsletter 02/2005
• Newsletter 01/2005
• 1st Newsletter from the Gender Task Force

Contacts:

Ms. Sonja Lokar, Chair
Slovenia
Stability Pact Gender Task Force Chair's Office
tel:  +386 1 2444 119
fax: +386 1 2444 123
sonja.lokar@siol.net

Mrs. Mary Ann Rukavina Cipetic,
Associate Director
GTF Regional Center for Gender Equality (gtf@zg.htnet.hr    )
Savska 41/2, 10000 Zagreb
Tel: +385 (1) 613 77 83
Fax: +385 (1) 613 77 84
mary.ann.rukavina@zg.t-com.hr

Ms. Talia Boati
Expert, Working Table I
Stability Pact
Rue Wiertz 50
B-1050 Brussels
Tel: +32 (0) 2 401 87 42 Fax: +32 (0) 2 401 87 12
E-mail: talia.boati@stabilitypact.org