Women
EBU fosters equal opportunities for both genders to full participation and aims at increasing the representation of women in decision making positions. This means raising awareness on the added value of diversity and on the right to equal opportunities, and also the empowerment of women to take their rightful place in society.
Leadership training and women´s forums organised by EBU gave women the opportunity to learn skills and to strengthen their network.
Since the first EBU women´s forum in 1999, the percentage of women delegates to the EBU general assembly is between 30 and 35 percent.International Women's Day 2011.
To mark this international event and to reinforce EBU's commitment to issues concerning blind and partially-sighted women, please read the four articles below, written by eminent female members of EBUACCESS TO SAFE MOBILITY, FOR BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED AND DEAF BLIND WOMEN, by Jill Allen-King, OBE.
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, by Tifa Tucic
SOME SIGNIFICANT STEPS by Oxana- Ksenia Siminciuc
EBU WOMEN AND VOLUNTEERING 2011 by Barbara Krejči Piry, coordinator of the EBU WSG
The EBU Women's Conference (Cyprus)
on the UN Convention on the Protection of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, "Making the UN Convention work for visually impaired women" (Larnaca, Cyprus, 26-28 March 2010):- EBU Cyprus Declaration
- Final conference report
- Conclusions of the results from the questionnaire on the ratification and implementation of the UN Convention in EBU countries
- A chance to be heard, understood and supported, by Oxana Siminciuc, journalist and EBU Women´s Network member
- A precious experience, by Tifa Tucic, EBU Women´s Network member
Further documents
- Sweden: Looking the other way - A study guide to female victims of violence with disabilities (2011)
- Sweden: The SRF vision on equality between men and women (2006)
- Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights' statement against rape and sexual violence on women (2010)
- EBU survey on the needs of deafblind women (2007), in collaboration with the EBU Deafblinfd Steering Group
- Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (China, 1995): follow up and report by the European Disability Forum Women's Committee (2010)
- Leading the Way - A Leadership and Mentoring Kit for Blind Women, by the World Blind Union Women's Committee (2003)
- Results and recommendations of the EBU Questionnaire Survey on the education, vocational training and rehabilitation of blind and partially sighted women across the 27 EU Member States in 2007.