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ABDURAKHMANOVA ANJELIKA
Tajikistan

Anjelika Abdurakhamova received her MA in economics in 2005 on Khujand State University, Tajikistan. She is currently working in National Association of Business Women of Tajikistan (NABWT) in Khujand, Tajikistan as Human Resource Manager. She is deeply involved in Interregional Central Asian Project "Gender and Trade" funded by Ford Foundation and implemented by Central Asian International Gender & Trade Network (CA IGTN) with participation of researchers from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. She used to work as a researcher on gender aspects of Globalization in Central Asian Countries and Kazakhstan. Anjelika Abdurakhamova is an alumna of the Contemporary Issues Fellowship Program, sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA), US Department of State, under the FREEDOM Support Act, and administered by the International Research & Exchange Board (IREX) and also alumna of the Salzburg Seminar Academic Session "Strengthening Democracy and Governance: Women and Political Power" and the Central Eurasia Leadership Academy (CELA), organized by the East West Institute (EWI) in partnership with the Society of International Business Fellows (SIBF). She is also co-author of NGO Survey Report "The third sector in the republic of Tajikistan", Khujand, 2001 and "The new market risks and how women-"shuttles" are responding to these risks in Tajikistan". Khujand, 2004.

ASLANYAN SVETLANA
Armenia

Svetlana Aslanyan received her Ph.D. in linguistics from the Institute of Linguistics of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia. She is currently working as a Senior Scholar, head a research group and the Scientific Secretary on International Relations at the same Institute. She has published 68 documents, including 2 monographs, 6 dictionaries, and series of scholarly articles. Since 1996, after the Fourth Women Congress in Beijing Dr. Aslanyan has devoted herself to researching the role of women and the problems associated with the Women' NGOs and Women's Movement in Armenia. She prepared the course entitled "Introduction to Gender: History, Culture and Society. The lectures were delivered and the reader "Gender: History, Culture and Society" was published.
Her current research is: Post Communist Armenia: A woman's Role in Establishing a Democratic Society.
She has received IREX Fellowship and Fulbright Senior Fellowship for research projects in the USA.
She is founding president of the Center for the Development of Civil Society and its Women Scholars' Council division; in her capacity as NGO President she has organized several training courses for vulnerable groups of women and youth, including refugees and national minorities. She has launched and achieved many initiatives to advance and raise the status of women in Armenia and to guarantee equal rights and opportunities for women and men in this period of reform and transition. She especially support initiatives directed at women and the self-empowerment of women in a growing democracy
At the same time she is the founding member and Foreign Relations Coordinator of the Trans- Caucasus Women's Dialog president of an NGO called the Center for the Development of Civil Society, which set up a number projects in the areas of peace and democracy building and rehabilitation of children. She is currently engaged both in women's movement and Peacebulding in our region.

BERVAR KATARINA
Slovenia

Katarina graduated from University of Ljubljana, School of Law. At present she works as a legal advisor at Legal-informational centre for NGO`s in Ljubljana, dealing mostly with issues on human rights protection, dissability, discrimination at workplace and equal opportunities. She is a mediator for family and organisational conflicts.
She is working on the realisation of the rights of women, disabled, workers, children guaranteed by the constitution, legislation and international treaties, so she has committed herself also to promoting the principle of gender equality and to help eliminating inequality in all areas of life.
She is active in national activity group on the EU campaign For diversity.Against discrimination. She works on projects aiming towards raising national awareness on human rights and especially discrimination.

DOKMANOVIC MIRJANA
Serbia

Mirjana is a lawyer, expert in international law and women's rights, freelance consultant on human rights and gender issues. Founder and President of the Women's Center for Democracy and Human Rights, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal on Political Theory and Research on Globalization, Development and Gender Issues "Globalizacija.com" (www.globalizacija.com). She is member of the International Steering Committee of NEWW-Polska, and the Gender Equality Council of the Secretariat of Labour, Employment and Gender Equality, Executive Council of the Province Vojvodina.
She has coordinated numerous projects at international, national and local level aimed at fostering human rights education, implementation and protection of women's rights, gender justice and social justice, and enhancing community development. She has published four books and a number of articles addressing gender, human rights and globalization. She has participated as invited speaker and workshop facilitator at a great number of international conferences, including the World Social Forum (2004) and the European Social Forum (2003). She is associate member of the Women in Development Europe (WIDE), member of the Global Initiative for Inclusive Security, Society for International Development, International Law Association, and national Scientific Association Technology and Society.
Publications: New World Order: Impact of Globalisation on Economic and Social Position of Women; Gender Equity and Public Policy; Transition, Privatisation, and Women (ed.), Women and Politics: Toward New Social Contract (co-au.), Globalizacija.com (ed.).

DZINA NIKOLA
Latvia

In 2004 she became social science masters in psychology on University of Latvia and in 2006 certificate in psychotherapy in Institute of Humanistic and Existential Psychology. Professionally Nikola has been working as director of pilot project in The Resources Center for Women "Marta" since 2006. She used to work as psychologist; in Center against Abuse "Dardedze".
Nikola Dzina is also involved in activity of other NGOs as a member of the board of Clinical Psychology Association of Latvia and East European Association for Existential Therapy.

DZOTSENIDZE SHORENA
Georgia

Shorena has academic background in applied mathematics & computer science and management studies. She works for Center for Women and Development that was established in cooperation with four counterparts in 2001. Her professional interests are as follows: socioeconomic rights and socioeconomic development issues (economic development, poverty alleviation, microfinance & business development, rural development, adult education and lifelong learning, ICT), advocacy, national gender machineries, trafficking/labour migration (prevention & labour rights), European integration.

JUHÁSZ JUDIT
Hungary

Graduated from Budapest University of Economic Sciences in 1993, Judit has primarily worked in Hungarian Ministry of Social Welfare as Deputy Programme Authorizing Officer (DPAO) responsible for the implementation of the Phare projects (1993-2000). From 2000 employed in Blue Steed Consult Ltd. as a program manager "Employability and long-term employment of multiply disadvantaged target groups" and afterwards: "Reintegration of women into the labour market". She has also worked as a trainer, pre-assessor of applications submitted for financing under Community Initiative EQUAL and pre-assessor of applications submitted for financing under the measures 1.3.1 (Labour Market Reintegration of Inactive Women) and 2.3 (Labour Market Reintegration of Disadvantaged People with Low Educational Level) of the Hungarian Human Resource Development Operational Programme. From May 2006 Judit is programme co-ordinator for the Phare Access 2003 programme in Hungary, where she is providing consultancy and project monitoring to 14 organisations implementing projects under the programme. She is also Member of Hungarian Economic Association.

KISSELYOVA OKSANA
Ukraine

Oksana is a senior researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and president of non-governmental organization Liberal Society Institute in Kiev. She is Ph.D. in Philosophy. Since 1999 Oksana coordinated twelve projects aimed at women's economic, social and political empowerment at the national and international levels. Oksana focuses on women and economy, women's participation in decision making, women's health, development of institutional mechanisms to ensure gender equality etc. She has developed reports: Monitoring after Beijing: Two Years Later. Social & Economic Status of Ukrainian Women. (Kiev, 1997); Women in Sustainable Development. (Kiev, 1998); Women's Health in Transition. Implementation of the Cairo ICPD Program of Action in Ukraine. (Kiev, 1999); Beijing+5: Women in Transition Economies. Regional report. (Kiev, 2000); Women's economic empowerment and access to financing and assets in CIS Countries: issues, good practices and policy options. (Geneva, UN ECE, 2004); Women's Health. (Kiev, 2004); Commonwealth of Independent States (Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine) // Beijing Betrayed. Women Worldwide Report that Government Have Failed to Turn the Platform into Action. (New York, WEDO, 2005); Research paper to specify future activities (2007-2009) regarding women's policy activities for regional office Central Europe of the Heinrich Boell Foundation in Warsaw (2006).
Oksana had a scholarship at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Public Health. She has developed the women's health module. She teaches women's health at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy School of Public Health now.
Oksana was a speaker at the Multi-Stakeholders Roundtable within UN Financing for Development process (Monterrey, Mexico, 2002), participated at the Major Groups Dialog at the 4th and 5th UN Preparatory Committees of World Summit on Sustainable Development (New York, 2002, Bali, Indonesia, 2002), and World Summit on Sustainable Development (Johannesburg, South Africa, 2002).

KRALIKOVA ALENA
Czech Republic

Alena Kralikova has worked for Gender Studies, o.p.s. since March 2002, and became the Director for Education in July 2002. Since the beginning of 2005, she has been the Director of the organisation. She received her degree in English and French languages and literature at the Faculty of Education, Charles University (her diploma thesis focused on feminist critique of Henry Miller's work). Voluntarily, she did not conclude her studies of mass communication at Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University. She spent the winter semester of 1998 studying English philology at University of Joensuu in Finland; and since then has been very interested in both the language and culture. In Gender Studies, o.p.s., she is responsible for educational seminars and lectures for various groups, management of the organisation, PR and fundraising.
In 2004, she spent a lots of her time preparing the exhibition titled I Menstruate This Month. She is interested in women's participation in politics and decision-making processes, in the image of women as provided by media and the representation of women and men in media structures.

MACKEVIČIÜTË INDRË
Lithuania

For the last 3 years Indre Mackeviciute has been actively engaged in several European projects relating to men's role in facilitating the equality. Her activities involved international coordination of the following projects: "Modern Men in Enlarged Europe: Developing Innovative Gender Equality Strategies" (2004-2005); "Modern Men in Enlarged Europe II: Family-Friendly Policies" (2005-2006); "Equality for Local Development: Mainstreaming in Municipalities" (2006-2007). Local gender equality policies and debates were encouraged through the following projects funded by SIDA and the World Bank: "Capacity Building of Lithuanian Communities by Introducing Methods for Gender Equality Implementation" (2004-2005); "Capacity Building in Lithuanian Municipalities through Support for Gender Equality Implementation" (2005); "Improving democracy through developed tools for a more gender-balanced decision-making process and local administration in Lithuania" (2003-2005). Currently working as an Advisor to the Office of the Equal Opportunities Ombudsperson, she has also been actively engaged in various NGO activities, often with the Centre for Equality Advancement (CEA).

OČENÁŠOVÁ ZUZANA
Slovakia

She holds a M.A. in psychology from the Faculty of Arts of Comenius University in Bratislava and a M.A. in gender studies from the Central European University in Budapest. In 2001 - 2004 she worked for the Open Society Foundation Bratislava as a Law Program and Public Administration Program manager. Currently, she is a program consultant for Slovak-Czech Women's Fund in Bratislava, Slovakia. She is a co-author of Slovak country report in Open Society Institute publication Equal Opportunities for Women and Men: Monitoring Law and Practice in New Member States and Accession Countries of the European Union.

PETRIASHVILI DIANA D.
Tibilisi, Georgia

Dina is a writer and photographer and she is working in CaucAsia, international analytical magazine Her responsibilities are: writing articles on gender issues for the monthly information-analytical online magazine; assisting editor-in-chief in generating topics and distributing story. From 2003 she is a Member, of Gender Media Caucasus Journalists' Association where she worked at the projects that preceded official registration of the NGO: collected gender-related media articles, statistics, official statements. Diana's current responsibilities include: collection of articles for the Woman and Civil Society book, a joint publication of authors from 10 countries; preparations for the Fourth International Journalists' Conference, organized by the Association (including the work at the documentary on Conference, creation of CD disc on the activities of the participating organizations, collection and editing of photo-materials). Involvement in other recent activities includes: participation in Journalists against Sexism in Pop-Culture project, participation in the Global Media Monitoring Project Feb.16, 2005, and other. She was a Finalist of Freedom Support Act/Future Leaders Exchange Program and sent by U.S. Department of State to spend senior year of high school in the U.S. to complete primary education.

SAFAROVA MARINA
Tajikistan

Marina Safarova graduated faculty of philology of Moscow State University and was a graduate student of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences in Moscow. She taught psychology, pedagogic, conflictology in State Universities of Tajikistan. In 1999 she established Women Public Union "Health, Rights and Society", and at present she is a Chairman of the organization's Board of Trustees. Within the organization's activity Marina was trained in the Third International Summer Law University in Human Rights of Soros Foundation, Almaty, Kazakhstan. She attended in a training of Women School of Political Leadership (IFES, AED, USAID). Implementation of projects on women reproductive rights, prevention of drug addiction, HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases among youth and women, financed by Soros Foundation, Global Fund for Women (USA, San-Francisco), allowed her to take part in the Forum of Women NGOs, grant recipients of Global Fund for Women in Central Asia region, to become member of this network, and later Advisor of Global Fund for Women in Tajikistan. Marina Safarova is the author and manager of a project on legal and socially-economic support of old lonely women from national minorities, living in the territory of the Republic of Tajikistan. The given project has been implemented by financial support of the Mama Cash Fund for Women (Netherlands).
Marina Safarova has international certificates of a trainer/facilitator (USAID/the Pragma Corporation, ICA: I), she is an author of number of manuals on business planning for women- entrepreneurs, on prevention of drug addiction and HIV/AIDS for schoolgirls and high school students; she is also an editor of scientific-popular literature on gender issues.

TERZI DANIELA
Moldova

Dana is a psychologist who graduated from the State University of Moldova and MA candidate in Psychological Counseling, Faculty of Psychology and Psychotherapy, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Dana have worked as director of Gender Equity & Egual Opportunities Program in the Soros Foundation Moldova for three years and have initiated and conducted many projects in the gender issues area: domestic violence, gender discrimination, gender equality and equal opportunities for women and men, gender and education, reproductive rights of women, etc. Currently, Dana I working as executive director of the National Women's Studies and Information Center "Partnership for Development". This organization is the most active representative of the civil society in Moldova that implements many projects in gender issues area. She is leading the projects on economic and political empowerment of women, legal framework in gender related issues and gender mainstreaming. Dana is a member of the National Committee on Gender Equality on Government of Moldova trying to influence the decision-makers to improve the gender policy mechanisms at all levels.

TROKHYM IRYNA
Ukraine

In 1996 Iryna received Economics degree in National University Lviv Polytechnic. Also, she get specialty of social worker. Since 1996 Iryna work in NGO sector. She is co-founder of West Ukrainian Centre "Women's Perspectives", Lviv, Ukraine. The organization's aims: legal, social and psychological adaptation of women in modern circumstances, human rights protection and education, promotion of gender equality in society and to call community's attention to existing problems and to join efforts in order to solve them. In 2000 Iryna as Fellow of Contemporary Issues Program worked at the Law and Entrepreneurship Centre, University of Oregon, USA.
Currently, Iryna continue her work in the field of prevention of gender and age discrimination in the labour market. Iryna are responsible for conducting monitoring and research of gender discrimination in the labour market.