Date/Time
Date(s) - 25/11/2015
12:00 am - 1:00 am
Location
Verkhovna Rada
Categories
To mark the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of All Violence Against Women on November 25th and in preparation for the ratification of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (Istanbul Convention) by Ukraine, MPs and performers will lend their voices to the real life stories of seven women’s rights activists from different countries of the world, by reading the documentary play “Seven”.
9:30 Press Briefing
Mr Nayem, MP
Ms Lutsenko, MP
Mr von Beckerath, Ambassador of Sweden
Mr Ristovski, Head of the Council of Europe Office in Ukraine
12:00 – 12:40 Reading Of Play “Seven” at the Plenary of The Verkhovna Rada
Confirmed readers so far include:
- Mustafa Nayem (Journalist and MP)
- Oksana Syroyid (MP and Vice speaker of the Parliament)
- Tamila Tasheva (Women’s rights activist from Crimea)
- Boryslav Bereza (MP)
- Natalia Sumska (People’s Artist of Ukraine)
- Ostap Semerak (MP)
- Iryna Lutsenko (MP)
This event is co-organised by the Verkhovna Rada Chairperson, the Embassy of Sweden, the Council of Europe and the International Charitable Foundation “Ukrainian Women’s Fund”.
For more information, please contact:
Olesya Bondar, Ukrainian Women’s Fund, at olesya@uwf.kiev.ua and +380.503.850.043
Ana Urrutia-Enciso, Council of Europe “Preventing and combatting violence against women and domestic violence in Ukraine” Project Manager, at ana.urrutia@coe.int and +380.662.607.679
