Call for Czech and Slovak Women's Issues of Focus

The SVU Women's Issues Standing Committee is calling Czech and Slovak women in home countries and the diaspora, to send us your defined Current Issues of Priority for Women, in the Czech Republic and in Slovakia. We are asking for issue specificity, and your rationale. We would appreciate any abstracts, research, reports, and data you have. We will prepare statements and seek support, including from diplomatic, foundation, and government contacts, to make our Women's Issues targeted by the SVU Women's Issues Standing Committee, move to more awareness, more authenticity, more space in ppropriate venues/audiences, for serious consideration and understanding.

We are well briefed on the importance of the momentum and requirements of the European Union Enlargement Process, and that this has brought women's issues to the agenda in a new way in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. However, paper changes are only a beginning, and there is a broad educational need for gender, a sense of belief of women's power and possibilities for women themselves and their organizations, and a need for commitment of enforcement codes, institutions, and financing, to make sustainable progress for civil society women in the Czech Republic, and Slovakia, as women move from Communism to a market economy and Democracy, and then potentially to part of the European Union.

Send Women's Issues suggestions and documentation to: Lois A. Herman, SVU Women's Issues Standing Committee Chair, mosie@pioneerplanet.infi.net.
We also invite all interested women to be part of our FIRST and GROWING, and SVU Board approved, SVU Women's Issues Standing Committee. Please also visit the subsite FOCUS On WOMEN on this SVU website.

Dekuji,
Lois A. Herman
Chair, Women's Issues Committee

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