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http://www.besiktas.bel.tr/AltSayfa.aspx?ID=6443 With contribution of Beşiktaş Municipality-- 
[Bruxelles, 24 janvier 2013] Marie-José Jonczy, membre du Conseil d’administration du LEF pour University Women of Europe, a remporté le prix Tanesse, décerné tous les trois ans par l’Académie des sciences morales et politiques (France).
Ce prix est décerné "à la personne ayant, dans les trois années précédant le concours, le plus contribué à améliorer la condition de la femme".
Marie-José Jonczy a travaillé de nombreuses années en tant que conseillère principale au service juridique de la Commission européenne. Elle est aujourd’hui engagée au sein du LEF comme membre du Conseil d’administration et y représente University Women of Europe dont elle est membre du Comité exécutif.
Toute l’équipe du LEF la félicite pour ce prix et la remercie pour son engagement en faveur des droits des femmes.

FFUW BOARD 2013 STARTS
The Finnish Federation of University Women (FFUW) has new board and new president who is professor, dr Helena Ranta. The board had first meeting of this year on 19th January and the rest of the board is consisting of the following persons:
Helena Ranta president
Siv Dahlin Jansson I vicepresident
Ritva Salmi II vicepresident
Gun-Britt Brunström
Aune Kariluoto
Liisa Luomanen
Auli Ojala (UWE treasurer)
Helena Pettinen
Mirja Saarni
Marja Liisa Toivanen CIR 2013-
Leena Tiitu
Jaana Tähtinen
As FFUW treasurer is operating Sirkka Oksanen and ombudsman is Susanna Sulkunen.
FFUW is one of the largest federations in UWE and IFUW and it has more than 1000 members plus 19 local associations. It is publishing magazine called Minerva (also in internet). The web address of FFUW is www.akateemisetnaiset.fi. The federation has board meetings every two months. Besides of that it has skype meetings and the office (in the center of Helsinki) is moving to paperless systems. Finland is one of the leading paper producer but also one of the most developed IT societies.
The first picture is showing president Ranta and former president Ritva Tammivaara. Second picture is meeting of new board 2013.
Dear University Women of Europe,
I write to you in order to inform you that EWL is participating to the worldwide event ONE BILLION RISING (OBR), initiated by V-Day and taking place on 14 February 2013. As you may know, the aim of the event is to rise up and raise awareness on violence against women and its pervasive presence in women’s lives.
EWL has planned to do a flash mob and participate, together with other Brussels-based organizations and individuals, to a free dance. EWL created an original song, “Rise up, Stand up”, and choreography on it for this flash mob. During the last Board Meeting, we made a picture of you with a paper stating why you would dance and rise. With these photos we prepared a diapo presenting the song:
· Diapo of the song “Rise up, Stand-up”
· Lyrics : see attached file
· Choreography for the flash mob: - In English
- In French
- Full Choreography:
We kindly invite you to mobilize too on 14 February: you can use this song and choreography to invite your members to dance and say no to VAW. It would be great if they could join their efforts together with EWL national members and create joyful and powerful events.
As you know, among EWL political priorities regarding violence against women are:
- EU Ratification of the CoE Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence
- EU deciding for a European Year on violence against women
- EU providing for a common European strategy to tackle violence against women.
One Billion Rising events could have a big impact in terms of our visibility and awareness raising among the population and European and National institutions on the issue.
Please feel free to use EWL logo. The more we are, the more pervasive our message can be. We want women in Europe to let their voice be heard on this massive violation.
I suggest you consult OBR website, www.onebillionrising.org , where you can get a lot of information on how people and organizations are mobilizing all around the world, download a toolkit and insert your own event.
You can follow our news:
· of course on www.womenlobby.org and on EWL Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/pages/European-Womens-Lobby/169340673246
· but also on the Facebook page of ONE BILLION RISING BRUSSELS EUROPE http://www.facebook.com/groups/419416888122067/
Please, keep informing us about your event, as we would like to give visibility of all events of our members in Europe through our website and FB page!
For any other information, please do not hesitate to contact me or Colette (detroy@womenlobby.org).
Best regards,
Valentina Brogna (Ms.)
Communication Coordinator of EWL’s actions for One Billion Rising
European Women's Lobby / Lobby européen des femmes
T: (+32) 02/217 90 20 · F: (+32) 02/219 84 51 · E: brogna@womenlobby.org·
A: 18, rue Hydraulique, B-1210 Brussels/Bruxelles, Belgium/Belgique ·
The European Women’s Lobby (EWL) is the largest umbrella organisation of women’s associations in the European Union (EU), working to promote women’s rights and equality between women and men. EWL membership extends to organisations in all 27 EU member states and three of the five candidate countries, as well as to 20 European-wide bodies, representing a total of more than 2500 organisations.
Think before you print / Réfléchissez avant d'imprimer
The Chair of the fifty-first session of the Commission for Social Development, Mrs. Sewa Lamsal Adhikari (Nepal), will hold an informal briefing for all interested delegations on the programme of work of the fifty-first session of the Commission, on Thursday, 17 January 2013, from 10:00 to 13:00, in the Economic and Social Council Chamber (NLB).
Fifty-first session
The fifty-first session of the Commission for Social Development will be held from Wednesday, 6, to Friday, 15 February 2013. The opening meeting will take place on Wednesday, 6 February, at 10 a.m. in Conference Room 4 (NLB). The provisional annotated agenda and the proposed organization of work are contained in document E/CN.5/2013/1. For further information on the fifty-first and previous sessions of the Commission, please visit: http://social.un.org/index/CommissionforSocialDevelopment/Sessions/2013.aspx
Seating arrangements
NGOs with ECOSOC Status will be seated on a first-come, first-served basis.
Participation of non-governmental organizations
To consult comprehensive information on the participation of non-governmental organizations in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council in the work of the Commission, please visit: http://social.un.org/index/CivilSociety/NGOParticipation/CSocD51Session.aspx
List of side events
The list of side events on the occasion of the fifty-first session of the Commission will be accessible by visiting this link: http://social.un.org/index/CivilSociety/NGOParticipation/CSocD51Session/SideEvents.aspx
Edith Lommerse, Uwe president
Kabul, December 2012. Early in the morning in the province of Kunduz a gunshot is heard. It kills the 18-year-old Nasrin, leaving her family to cry for the loss of her young life. All they can do is grieve for her and with them thousands of women in Afghanistan, as almost 90 percent of them are potential victims of discrimination and violence ranging from child marriage, forced marriage, rape or polygamy. Only a month later, 15-year-old Tamara is brutally murdered by a relative in a so-called “honour killing”. In October, a 25-year-old-woman is beheaded in Herat province, another 30-year-old is mutilated and murdered.
President Hamid Karzai has realised the gravity of the matter. He expressed serious concern over the increase in violence against women in his recent radio message to the nation. He said domestic violence in any way or any form stands in complete negation of all Islamic instructions and human rights values that women are entitled. “Both our religion and our culture give tremendous respect to women. Women are mothers and enjoy a valuable respect in Islam”, said the President. He also stated that domestic violence can rip apart the very fabric of a family life and badly affect the way its members including the children behave. “It destroys love, passion and respect.”
Despite the obvious needs to educate policemen, it is hard to find enough students to fill the classrooms although the EVAW course was put on as a special request from the Afghan Ministry of Interior. That same ministry has set an ambitious goal to employ 5000 female police officers by the end of 2014. Currently, there are only around 1.500 in the Afghan Police – a mere one percent of the overall police force. They are desperately needed, though, for investigating crimes where women are the suspects or victims of domestic violence, to search or pat down women at checkpoints, at airports or at crime scenes. According to the latest UNDP Police Perception Survey, seven in ten Afghans say “they are more likely to report a crime if the police officer is female” and two thirds say “female police fulfill a need in society.” The majority tend to trust females more to investigate a crime fairer than their male counterparts. Yet, you must be brave as a woman to be a policewoman in Afghanistan: they are facing threats and discrimination.Karzai’s speech expressing his concern on the increasing violence against women got a sinister follow up on 21 November when eight prisoners were hanged. The eight had been convicted of crimes including murder, kidnapping and rape.