KARAT Coalition together with project partners in Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine invites applications for participation in the training on the Optional Protocol to CEDAW which will take place in Warsaw, Poland, on 10-13 September 2008.

The training is organized in cooperation with IWRAW Asia Pacific within the project Building towards Eastern European and Central Asia NGO Coalition on Optional Protocol to CEDAW implemented by KARAT Coalition and supported by OXFAM Novib. The training is intended for women’s rights activists recommended by women’s NGOs from Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Poland and Ukraine. It will provide the participants with the improved knowledge of how to identify the discrimination against women in the local context and how to address it under the Optional Protocol to CEDAW. The participants of the training will be identified on the basis of the specified criteria.

For the full text of the call and the application form please contact Ola Solik aleksandra.solik@karat.org.pl or project partners in: Belarus – PA Women’s Independent Democratic Movement petina@open.by ; Georgia – Women’s Political Resource Center wprc@wprc.org.ge and Ukraine – Ukrainian Women’s Fund - olena@uwf.kiev.ua .