https://cius-archives.ca/items/browse?tags=Problem&output=atom2024-03-28T18:46:50-06:00Omekahttps://cius-archives.ca/items/show/2160The Trafficking of Women in Ukraine: Government and Non-Government Responses
In this recording, Olena Hankivsky (Simon Fraser University), talks about the book "Gender, Politics, and Society in Ukraine". Dr. Hankivsky is the editor of this book published by University of Toronto Press with support from CIUS.
In this recording, Olena Hankivsky (Simon Fraser University), talks about the book "Gender, Politics, and Society in Ukraine". Dr. Hankivsky is the editor of this book published by University of Toronto Press with support from CIUS.
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In this recording, the audience asks question to panelists Linda Duncan (MP Edmonton-Strathcona), Olena Hankivsky (Simon Fraser University), and Tymofiy Hawrysh (Maple Leaf Alberta Project, Edmonton) following their presentations on the theme: “The Search for Effective Solutions”.
In this recording, the audience asks question to panelists Linda Duncan (MP Edmonton-Strathcona), Olena Hankivsky (Simon Fraser University), and Tymofiy Hawrysh (Maple Leaf Alberta Project, Edmonton) following their presentations on the theme: “The Search for Effective Solutions”.
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In this recording, Siobhan Byrne (Assistant Professor, Political Science, U of A) begins with a brief commentary following the presentation given by John Winterdyk (Mount Royal University) and Julie Kaye (Ambrose University College, Calgary) on the topic: “Beyond Criminal Justice: Responding to Human Trafficking in Canada”
After Dr. Byrne's commentary, there is an open question period at 7:35 in the audio recording.
In this recording, Siobhan Byrne (Assistant Professor, Political Science, U of A) begins with a brief commentary following the presentation given by John Winterdyk (Mount Royal University) and Julie Kaye (Ambrose University College, Calgary) on the topic: “Beyond Criminal Justice: Responding to Human Trafficking in Canada”
After Dr. Byrne's commentary, there is an open question period at 7:35 in the audio recording.
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In this recording, John Winterdyk (Mount Royal University) and Julie Kaye (Ambrose University College, Calgary) give a presentation on the topic: “Beyond Criminal Justice: Responding to Human Trafficking in Canada”
In this recording, John Winterdyk (Mount Royal University) and Julie Kaye (Ambrose University College, Calgary) give a presentation on the topic: “Beyond Criminal Justice: Responding to Human Trafficking in Canada”
Co-organized by CIUS and the Ukrainian Professional and Business Club of Edmonton, the forty-seventh Shevchenko lecture at the University of Alberta was given by Kateryna Levchenko, who spoke on “Indifference to the Violation of Women’s Rights in Ukraine as a Social Problem” (21 March 2013). Dr. Levchenko is widely recognized as a strong advocate of women’s rights in Ukraine and is also known internationally for her work on the crime of trafficking in human beings, especially women and children.
Dr. Levchenko emphasized that an important aspect of modernization is the guarantee of effective civil, political, and economic rights for women. According to analysts at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Ukraine currently ranks sixty-third among seventy-five countries in the so-called global gender gap. Women’s rights in Ukraine are violated in a variety of ways. Salaries for men doing work of the same value as women remain 25 per cent higher. In the political sphere, women’s representation in the higher tiers of power remains low. Domestic violence in Ukraine continues to grow at an alarming rate.
Dr. Levchenko concluded with the substantial gains that have been made in Ukraine over the last few years with regard to women’s rights. These include the formation of an Expert Council, of which Dr. Levchenko is a member. Established in 2009, it considers appeals regarding discrimination and prepares recommendations for the Ministry of Social Policy to counteract detected violations. La Strada-Ukraine has initiated the documentation of gender discrimination in educational, cultural, and media spheres and partnered with NGOs and specialists in the Ministry of Social Policy to monitor special agencies and institutions that assist victims of family violence. The process of women’s emancipation has also inspired well-known Ukrainian celebrities, from sports figures to movie stars, Kateryna Levchenko to participate in campaigns against domestic violence and sexual exploitation.
Co-organized by CIUS and the Ukrainian Professional and Business Club of Edmonton, the forty-seventh Shevchenko lecture at the University of Alberta was given by Kateryna Levchenko, who spoke on “Indifference to the Violation of Women’s Rights in Ukraine as a Social Problem” (21 March 2013). Dr. Levchenko is widely recognized as a strong advocate of women’s rights in Ukraine and is also known internationally for her work on the crime of trafficking in human beings, especially women and children.
Dr. Levchenko emphasized that an important aspect of modernization is the guarantee of effective civil, political, and economic rights for women. According to analysts at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Ukraine currently ranks sixty-third among seventy-five countries in the so-called global gender gap. Women’s rights in Ukraine are violated in a variety of ways. Salaries for men doing work of the same value as women remain 25 per cent higher. In the political sphere, women’s representation in the higher tiers of power remains low. Domestic violence in Ukraine continues to grow at an alarming rate.
Dr. Levchenko concluded with the substantial gains that have been made in Ukraine over the last few years with regard to women’s rights. These include the formation of an Expert Council, of which Dr. Levchenko is a member. Established in 2009, it considers appeals regarding discrimination and prepares recommendations for the Ministry of Social Policy to counteract detected violations. La Strada-Ukraine has initiated the documentation of gender discrimination in educational, cultural, and media spheres and partnered with NGOs and specialists in the Ministry of Social Policy to monitor special agencies and institutions that assist victims of family violence. The process of women’s emancipation has also inspired well-known Ukrainian celebrities, from sports figures to movie stars, Kateryna Levchenko to participate in campaigns against domestic violence and sexual exploitation.
]]>https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/2035 On 6-8 September 1991, CIUS marked the Ukrainian Canadian centenary with a conference on selected aspects of Ukrainian life in Canada in the years between 1924 and 1951. Coinciding with the release of Orest Martynowych's landmark monograph, Ukrainians in Canada: The Formative Years, 1891-1924, the conference was designed as a first step toward creating a research base for writing the interwar history of Ukrainians in Canada. This period, in contrast to the well-studied pioneer immigration and prairie settlement experience, has received relatively little scholarly attention, despite it being so critical to both the crystallizing Ukrainian Canadian community and ongoing integration into Canadian life. Accordingly, it was CIUS’s plan to attract papers on as wide an array of topics as possible, avoiding broad generalities in favour of more limited but illuminating profiles and case studies.
Rather than take the Ukrainian community itself as the starting point, Anna Reczvriska of the Polonia Research Institute at Jagiellonian University, Cracow, used interwar Polish consular and other records to examine the ‘'Ukrainian problem” in the opinion of Poles in Canada.
On 6-8 September 1991, CIUS marked the Ukrainian Canadian centenary with a conference on selected aspects of Ukrainian life in Canada in the years between 1924 and 1951. Coinciding with the release of Orest Martynowych's landmark monograph, Ukrainians in Canada: The Formative Years, 1891-1924, the conference was designed as a first step toward creating a research base for writing the interwar history of Ukrainians in Canada. This period, in contrast to the well-studied pioneer immigration and prairie settlement experience, has received relatively little scholarly attention, despite it being so critical to both the crystallizing Ukrainian Canadian community and ongoing integration into Canadian life. Accordingly, it was CIUS’s plan to attract papers on as wide an array of topics as possible, avoiding broad generalities in favour of more limited but illuminating profiles and case studies.
Rather than take the Ukrainian community itself as the starting point, Anna Reczvriska of the Polonia Research Institute at Jagiellonian University, Cracow, used interwar Polish consular and other records to examine the ‘'Ukrainian problem” in the opinion of Poles in Canada.