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Institutte of World Policy presented “Street Eurouniversity” in Dnipropetrovsk. Its official opening took place on June 6th on the European Sq.The Head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine Jan Tombinski, who was the honorary guest of the exhibition, opened the event.

We propose the photo essay of the first day of the exhibition.

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Jan Tombinski, the Head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine
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Jan Tombinski, Zoltan Saali, Political, Head of the Press and Information at the EU Delegation in Ukraine, Alyona Getmanchuk, director of the IWP, Leonid Litra, senior analyst of the IWP, Sergiy Solodkyy, the first deputy director of the IWP
IWP organizes series of “Street Eurouniversities” in several Ukrainian cities that is the exhibition of cartoons about the most important obstacle for Ukraine on its road to European integration. Cartoons illustrate two realities in more than twenty spheres of social, economic, political life of Ukraine and member-states of the EU. Moreover, residents of Ukrainian cities have an opportunity to directly communicate with experts from the IWP, ask them questions about the European integration path of the country.

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The Institute of World Policy expresses its special gratitude to the Dnipropetrovsk City Administration and Delegation of the European Union in Ukraine

“Street Eurouniversity” successfully took place in Kyiv and Odesa where thousands of Ukrainians visited the exhibition. The Ambassador of France to Ukraine Alain Remy was honorary guest of the exhibition in Odesa.

The event took place within the framework of the project ‘Soft Power of Ukraine in the EU’ is supported by Ukraine National Initiatives to Enhance Reforms (UNITER) project, which is implemented by Pact and made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

The project Street Eurouniversities was also supported by Global Reporting and Swedish Institute.
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Five Ukrainian governmental agencies presented reports to the Institute of World Policy on the efforts, which were put to achieve signing of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and EU at Eastern Partnership Summit in Vilnius.Specifically, National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine (NSDCU), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, the Ministry of Revenue and Duties of Ukraine, the Ministry of Internal Affairs responded to the request.
The representatives of all agencies stressed on the importance of signing the Association Agreement at Eastern Partnership Summit in Vilnius (November, 28-29th, 2013). In particular, in the letter, addressed to IWP, the First Deputy Secretary of the NSDC Oleksandr Medvedko pointed out that activities, aimed at the integration of Ukraine to the EU, “are being implemented on a full scale according to the established time-frame.” According to Mr. Medvedko, these activities are set in the EU-Ukraine Action Plan 2013, adopted by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.

The Minister of Revenue and Duties Oleksandr Klymenko claimed that the sole fact of the establishment of the agency, headed by him, “had demonstrated the willingness to develop the tax policy in the European trend”. According to him, the concentration of functions, related to the administration to the tax and customs payment is “the way that was chosen by many successful countries such as Great Britain, Denmark, Latvia, Canada, Netherlands, and Hungary.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs was not so specific in its letter and sent to the Institute the information bulletin (36-pages long) “On the Way of Ukraine’s Integration to EU”. It is stated in the letter that “the Ministry of Internal Affairs within its competence executes the tasks, determined by the President of Ukraine and the Cabinet of Ministries of Ukraine associated with the preparation to the Eastern Partnership Summit in Vilnius.

The Ministry of Justice stressed on that “now, most of the activities, determined by the EU-Ukraine Action Plan 2013, are carried out, in particular, the legislative support was granted to the process of internal reforms in spheres of electoral undiscriminating and anticorruption, legislation.” It makes a dissonance with the statement of NSDCU about the implementing of the document “on a full scale.” Specifically, The Ministry of Justice informed about the preparation of the draft law on holding elections in certain one-candidate constituencies; “a range of legislative measures aimed at implementation of new provisions of the Criminal Code of Ukraine”, the measures on protection of personal data, draft legislation on antidiscrimination are executed. The Ministry of Justice also provided the detailed list of anticorruption steps.

The answer of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in which the agency provided the information on the progress of implementing the Füle’s List, is the most fundamental.

The full list could be accessed here

On March 28th, the IWP sent letters to highest ranking officials of the Ukrainian government, where it informed about launch of the IWP advocacy campaign in the support of the European integration as well as explicated the importance of signing the Association Agreement. Moreover, in this letters, the IWP stated the request to inform civil society about the current stage of implementation of the EU recommendations for signing the Association Agreement at the Eastern Partnership summit in Vilnius.

The letters were sent to the President of Ukraine Victor Yanukovych, the Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov, the Secretary of National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine Andriy Klyuyev, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Leonid Kozhara, The Chairman of Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Volodymyr Rybak, the Minister of Justice of Ukraine Oleksandr Lavrynovych and other representatives of the Ukrainian government.
In addition, the IWP sent the Ukrainian authorities the “Vilnius calendar” that shows amount of time left to the Eastern Partnership Summit in Vilnius, where the Association Agreement is probably could be signed. In this context IWP appealed to the Ukrainian government to report on the steps that had been already taken to implement the recommendation for signing the Association Agreement.

“Vilnius calendar” is one of the components of an advocacy campaign “There is a better side of Europe!” In particular, the initiative of the Institute of World Policy at the central streets of Kyiv city lights placed under the title “Is the best side in Europe!” Under the Institute of World Policy initiative, city lights were placed on the central street of Kyiv under the title “There is a better side of Europe” Four layouts were designed to demonstrate the advantages of integration of Ukraine into the European Union.

This campaign is a part of the project “Soft Power of Ukraine in the European Union” that is implemented under “Ukraine National Initiatives to Enhance Reforms” (UNITER), funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented by Pact in Ukraine.

Thousands of residents of Odesa visited the exhibition of cartoons that was organized by the Institute of World Policy. The event was held for two days in the City Garden on Derybasivska st.Institute of World Policy expresses its gratitude to the Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of French Republic in Ukraine Alain Remy who took part in the exhibition in Odesa.

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The Ambassador of France in Ukraine Alain Remy and the Director of the IWP Alyona Getmanchuk Посол
OSCE special representative for frozen conflicts Andriy Deshchytsa also visited the exhibition.
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Kostyantyn Rgepishevskiy, representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine in Odesa, Alyona Gertmanchuk and Andriy Deshchytsa, OSCE special representative for frozen conflicts
First “Street Eurouniversity” took place in Kyiv on May 18th 2013 on Mykhailivska Sq.
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The IWP team and representatives Global Reporting і Swedish Institute

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“Street Eurouniversity” is a metaphorical name for the public events where public leaders and experts on related issues have an opportunity to directly communicate with citizens. In the framework of the “Street Eurouniversity”, the exhibition of cartoons that cover most topical questions of Europeanization will take place. They illustrate two realities in nearly forty areas of social, economic and political life of Ukraine and EU.
The event took place within the framework of the project ‘Soft Power of Ukraine in the EU’ is supported by Ukraine National Initiatives to Enhance Reforms (UNITER) project, which is implemented by Pact and made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

The project Street Eurouniversities was also supported by Global Reporting and Swedish Institute.

IWP expresses its gratitude to Odesa City Council for supporting “Street Eurouniversity”

Institute of World Policy under the “Global Virtual Forum of Women Leaders” initiative has held a round table “International success stories in promoting female leadership in Ukraine” which took place on 23rd of May at the conference room of Vozdvyzhensky Hotel.The aim of the round table is to discuss the methods of applying international experience to reinforce gender equalities in Ukraine in order to promote a more active role of women in political and social spheres.
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MP Irina Berezhna, Iryna Herashchenko, Ambassador of Finland Republic to Ukraine Arja Makkonen, Ambassador of Republic of Lithuania to Ukraine Argita Daudze, President of International Women’s Right Centre “La Strada Ukraine” Kateryna Levchenko and director of “Women Leaders” program at National Democratic Institute Olena Yena took part in the event.
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The project “Global Virtual Forum of Women Leaders” has been implemented with the support of Internews and USAID agency. During the round table info-graphics and a video were shown. They illustrate a situation in gender equalities sphere in Ukraine and in the whole world.
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On the day of Europe, May 18th, the Institute of World Policy presented “Street Eurouniversity” in Kyiv
All cartoons, even those that Kyiv officials endeavored to ban, were exhibited.“Street Eurouniversity” is a metaphorical name for the public events where public leaders and experts on related issues have an opportunity to directly communicate with citizens. In the framework of the “Street Eurouniversity”, the exhibition of cartoons that cover most topical questions of Europeanization will take place. They illustrate two realities in nearly forty areas of social, economic and political life of Ukraine and EU.
“Street Euroniversities” will take place in Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv soon.

The project ‘Soft Power of Ukraine in the EU’ is supported by Ukraine National Initiatives to Enhance Reforms (UNITER) project, which is implemented by Pact and made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
The project Street Eurouniversities was also supported by Global Reporting and Swedish Institute.

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“Street Eurouniversity” is a metaphorical name for the public events where public leaders, experts on related issues have an opportunity to directly communicate with citizens. In the framework of the “Street Eurouniversity”, the exhibition of cartoons that cover most topical questions of Europeanization will take place. They illustrate two realities in nearly forty areas of social, economic and political life of Ukraine and EU.
Officials of Kyiv City State Administration demanded to take certain cartoon of the exhibit, in particular on the issues of corruption, selective justice, and politics as business. Overall, nine topics fell under censorship that comprises 13 cartoons (in fact 1/3 of all exhibit).

The Institute of World Policy in the partnership with Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine held the conference “Ukraine-EU: On the Road to the Common Future”The conference took place on Thursday, May 16th at the Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine. The purpose of the conference is to send powerful signal about the joining of efforts of political elites, expert circles and civil society on the one side, and the European Union on the other around the importance of signing the Association Agreement at the Eastern Partnership Summit in Vilnius in November 2013. Representatives of Verkhovna Rada, Ambassadors of European countries in Ukraine, independent experts on the issues of European integration participated in the conference.

The conference was carried out with support of Ukraine National Initiatives to Enhance Reforms (UNITER) project, which is implemented by Pact and made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

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IWP held videoconference with Jill Dougherty, the foreign affairs correspondent for CNN. The transcript of the conversation is available in Russian only.

IWP held a videoconference with Special correspondent of CNN at State Department Jill Dougherty.Jill Dougherty focused on possible changes in the relations of Ukraine and the USA after the most recent appointment of John Kerry to the post of United States Secretary of State. She also presented her opinion on perspectives of gender equality dissemination in Ukraine and throughout the world. {1}

According to Ms. Dougherty, a key problem consists in a woman’s eagerness to influence society without doing more than pretend that she has power: “I call the phenomenon, when a woman pretends to have power but in fact she is no one and will never have influence on anything, the mentality of a milkmaiden.” Ms. Dougherty explained that the Soviet period of time, when women were deprived of real rights in comparison with men, was characterized by such a mentality.
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Dougherty also emphasized that work in politics is “ very difficult work,” “so if women really want take part in politics, they should cooperate with each other.” The American journalist underscored that “it is very difficult to reach success without political parties and organizations.”
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During the digital videoconference Ms. Dougherty also mentioned that “fence-mending with the USA depends on Ukraine.” Ms. Dougherty appealed to Ukraine to take the initiative on fence-mending with the United States, which is impossible without “clean-up” in internal policy. “Today, the United States is focused on solving more important and high-priority problems in Iran, Syria, and North Korea.”
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This assertion was affirmed by United States Ambassador to Russia James Collins (1996-2001), who also took part in the videoconference at the Institute of World Policy. He explained that United States is also trying to solve its internal problems, establishing its foreign policy: “Ukraine can not give anything to the USA and that is why it has lost the attention of White House.” Ambassador Collins said: “Of course, Ukraine is far from implementation of the democracy principles, but it is not a priority for Department of State.”
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The videoconference was held within the framework of the project “Global virtual forum of women leaders,” which is supported by Internews, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the Carnegie Centre (Washington).

The goal of “Global virtual forum of women leaders” is to discuss questions of gender equality and foster more active participation of Ukrainian women in political and social life. Ukrainian politicians, representatives of NGO’s, experts, and journalists take part in the project.
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IWP held a videoconference with NATO Secretary’s General Special Representative for Women, Peace and Security Mari Skaare.Questions from the videoconference

The first deputy director of the Institute of World Policy Sergiy Solodkyy:

As you have become the first person to occupy the position of the Special Representative for Women, Peace and Security at NATO, could you, please, outline the priorities of your work: what has been done and what has to be done? Why has NATO become interested in the topic of gender equality just recently?

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NATO Secretary’s General Special Representative for Women, Peace and Security Mari Skaare.
The broader political agenda for Women, Peace and Security within NATO is based on the UN Security Council Resolution 1325, adopted in 2000, and on four subsequent related resolutions. These resolutions have placed the role and rights of women in peace and security firmly on the international agenda. Nations have the primary responsibility for the implementation of these resolutions and the UN has the lead within the International Community.

NATO as a regional political-military organization has also important contributions to make. Therefore, in 2007 NATO, together with our partners in the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC), developed an overarching policy on UNSCR 1325 and related resolutions. This policy was followed in 2010 by an Action Plan, aimed at putting UNSCR 1325 on Women, Peace and Security into NATO- led operations and missions.

The Alliance is showing political leadership and our key messages are that we need to understand that conflicts may affect men and women differently and that we need to include women in decision-making and security institutions, if we are to be successful in meeting the security challenges of this century.

Showing political leadership is great, but we also do need to ensure that we implement our policy and Action Plan and achieve results. My job is to work with all parts of NATO, as well as with partners, to ensure that the policy is translated into practical measures and activities and that we together make a difference. I am NATO’s focal point for the work on Women, Peace and Security; I am assisting in internal coordination, raising awareness and engaging in dialogue with external stakeholders. I work across the board of NATO’s responsibilities and activities and I work within the framework of the Strategic Concept adopted in Lisbon in 2010 that outlines three core tasks – collective defence, crisis management and cooperative security. We need to work within each of these areas in order to integrate a gender perspective and promote the role and the rights of women.

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Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine in retirement Ihor Turyanskiy

Have you observed the behavior: ethical as well as political of women, who are members of the Parliament in other countries that are members of the NATO?

NATO Secretary’s General Special Representative for Women, Peace and Security Mari Skaare.
I do not have a specific assessment of female members of parliaments. But I would like to underscore the important role of parliamentarians as lawmakers and policymakers in their countries. They have a significant influence and contributions to make ensuring the implementation of the resolutions on Women, Peace and Security of the UN Security Council.

Alyona Getmanchuk, the director of the Institute of World Policy:

Today, the international relations demand more soft than hard power. And, the image of the NATO is also far from perfect especially on the post-Soviet arena where it is still associated with aggressive and militaristic approach. And I wish we had more opportunities to execute such videoconferences. People have to see a different ‘face’, the woman face of NATO. Do you think that this gender factor of NATO could influence the image of the Alliance and could it become the important component of NATO’s public diplomacy?

NATO Secretary’s General Special Representative for Women, Peace and Security Mari Skaare.
Public Diplomacy is important for raising awareness and engaging in a dialogue and thus broadening and deepening our own perspectives as well as others’. The Women, Peace and Security agenda is indeed included in the Public Diplomacy efforts of the Alliance.

The Women, Peace and Security agenda is, however, much more than creating an image. NATO member states form a unique community of values, committed to the principles of individual liberty, democracy, human rights and the rule of law. Gender equality and women’s role within society are the foundation of every contemporary and democratic society. If we are to be successful in dealing with security challenges: at the national, regional or global level, we do need to include women and we do need to understand society and conflicts also based on a gender perspective.

Olena Ostapchuk, Director of the Center of Gender Education:

Could you, please, give us examples of using gender approach in conflict resolution?

NATO Secretary’s General Special Representative for Women, Peace and Security Mari Skaare.
With regard to crisis management, the NATO-led operations in Kosovo and Afghanistan are providing us with valuable feedback on the implementation of the gender perspective. Our operations and missions have taught us that we can enhance our awareness of the situation on the ground and the effectiveness of our operations by devoting greater attention to the role and engagement of women. The increased presence of women in the field, the inclusion of gender-focused competences in training programmes, and the deployment of gender advisers help enhance our operational effectiveness and improve the way we work. NATO, individual Allies and Partner organizations have stepped up the development of gender-related training of our own forces.

Increased female participation in national security forces also presents an invaluable added-value in the conduct of operations. In Afghanistan, for example, experience has shown that all-female teams, or female soldiers who are part of mixed teams, are well suited for certain security roles, such as house inspections and searches of females, and they are also better able to engage Afghan women in discussing security and other concerns.

We have also learned that having gender advisers in the field, which of course can be both men and women, has strengthened the commanders’ ability to plan and execute the operation, and has helped them making better decisions. We have gained many valuable experiences, and to make sure that we learn from these, we have initiated a review of the practical implications of mainstreaming UNSCR 1325 and related resolutions into NATO-led operations and missions. This review is led by the Nordic Centre for Gender in Military Operations in Sweden, with the contribution of several of our operational partners. It should help us capitalize on our experiences and use them in future planning.

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