| Yesterday, on September 28, a meeting of the Council for
Consolidation of Women's Movement in Russia took place in
Moscow. Galina Mikhalyova, Chair of YABLOKO’s Gender faction
and Co-Chair of the Council, proposed a decision approved
by the Council to support YABLOKO’s candidates at regional
elections in the Chelyabinsk region.
It was noted that YABLOKO’s list in the Chelyabinsk region
was topped by women: Natalia Mironova, a well-known environmentalist,
and Fatima Kobzhasarova, Chair of women's rights movement
Fatihha. The key slogans of the party campaign in the Chelyabinsk
region are "Politics Is Women's Business!" and "For
Women! For Protection of Environment! For YABLOKO!”
The decisions adopted by the Council included the work plan
until the end of the year (including a number of international,
interregional and regional conferences to be conducted in
October - in Pskov and in Arkhangelsk and in November - in
Moscow); events within the framework of the programme "Women
on the Labor Market" in Tula, Perm and Saratov, the first
International Women's Festival in Moscow, including sessions
of the Women's Parliament and the Women's Government.
In addition, the Council adopted a memorandum "On the
general problems of the women's movement on the threashold
of elections", which emphasizes a non-party nature of
the women's movement and their common tasks for implementation
of Article 19 of the Constitution of Russia on equal rights
and opportunities for women.
See also:
Women’s
Movement
Regional
Elections 2010
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