A project to train teaching staff to teach women’s rights to students is implemented by the Institute for Democracy of Gagauzia in cooperation with the Association for Bulgarian Culture “Rodoliubets” and the Center for the Promotion and Protection of Young Women’s Rights of Chisinau, with the support of UN Women in Moldova, IPN reports.
According to the executive director of the Institute for Democracy of Gagauzia Tatiana Sergeeva, the United Nations considers the problem of equality between women and men is global and recommends the states to change the existing gender models that keep a system of unequal values and double standards.
Tatiana Sergeeva underlined the importance of respecting the rights of women. Regrettably, these rights are not respected in the Republic of Moldova. Here, the women ministers in 2008 represented 29.4%, in 2009 – 33.3%, in 2010 – 6.3%, while in 2013-2016 – 25%. The women MPs in 2008 constituted 20.8%, in 2009 – 24.8%, in 2010 – 25.7%, in 2013 –19.8%, in 2015 – 21.8%, while in 2016 – 20.8%. Currently, there are 22 women (21.79%) in Moldova’s Parliament. The situation is worse on the left side of the Nistru. There, only two of the 43 deputies of the Supreme Council are women (4.6%), while the 21-member Government includes only four women (19%).
Andrei Nikolaev, president of the Association for Bulgarian Culture “Rodoliubets”, said that when the women are excluded from the decision-making process, democracy stops functioning. The challenge of the epoch that started is to mobilize the whole human potential, not only its male part.
UN Women Moldova Representative Elena Rațoi said 28% of the men in Moldova consider the women should tolerate violence to keep the family. In more than 150 countries, there is at least one sexist law impending women’s economic opportunities, prohibiting the woman to leave the house without the husband’s permission, etc.
The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action say the promotion of women and realization of equality between men and women are issues related to human rights and the conditions for social equity and should not be isolated as a problem of women, which is women’s rights are a component part of the human rights.
