Program

Day 1 – Wednesday, May 27, 2015

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CONFERENCE

• Jiří Dienstbier, Minister for Human Rights, Equal Opportunities and Legislation, Czech Republic
• Věra Jourová, Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality, European Commission (Video-message)
• Salla Saastamoinen, Director for Equality, Directorate General Justice and Consumers, European Commission
• Marja Ruotanen, Director, Human Dignity and Equality, Council of Europe
• Ingvild Næss Stub, State Secretary, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Video-message)
• Robert Basch, Director of the Open Society Fund Prague, Czech Republic

• Feride Acar, The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW): Gender-based Violence and Gender Equality – Understanding and Addressing the Link
• Joanna Goodey, Head of Freedoms and Justice Department, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights: Results and lessons learned from the FRA violence against women survey
• Christine Chinkin, Director of the Centre on Women, Peace and Security, London School of Economics: The Istanbul Convention and its Added Value

• Bulgaria: Rositsa Georgieva-Dicheva, Acting Director of the Directorate “Council of Lawmaking”, Ministry of Justice
• Czech Republic: Jiří Dienstbier, Minister for Human Rights, Equal Opportunities and Legislation, Czech Republic
• Estonia: Kristiina Luht, Councillor of Gender-Based Violence Issues, Department of Equality Policies, Ministry of Social Affairs, Estonia
• Norway: Rachel Eapen Paul, Senior Adviser, Office of the Equality and Anti-discrimination Ombudsman
• Poland: Katarzina Wolska Wrona, Chief Expert, Office of the Government Plenipotentiary for Equal Treatment
• Slovakia: Oľga Pietruchová, Director of the Department for Gender Equality and Equal Opportunities, Ministry for Social Affairs and Family, Slovakia

• John Doyle, Regional Coordinator of the South East Domestic Violence Intervention Programme, Mens Development Network, Ireland
• Martin Jára, Director of The League of Open Men, Czech Republic
• Klas Hyllander, International Consultant – Gender Equality, Violence Prevention, Engaging Men&Boys, Sweden

Day 2 – Thursday, May 28, 2015

• Freja Ulvestad Kärki, Project Manager, Norwegian Directorate of Health, Norway
• Klas Hyllander, International Consultant – Gender Equality, Violence Prevention, Engaging Men&Boys, Sweden
• Alena Skoumalová, Brno City Police Directorate, Czech Republic

SESSION 2: Protecting victims: good practice examples and interventions
Moderator: Marceline Naudi, Head of the Department of Gender Studies at the University of Malta

• Meta Adutaviciute, Legal and Policy Adviser, Human Rights Monitoring Institute, Lithuania
• Urszula Nowakowska, Director of the Center for Women’s Rights, Poland
• Vladimír Vedra,  Project Manager, Intervention Centres Workers Association (APIC), Czech Republic

• Kateřina Fialová, Manager of Genderit.org at Association for Progressive Communications, Czech Republic / International
• Taran Knudstad, Senior Advisor, The Equality and Anti-discrimination Ombud, Norway
• Piret Urb, Human Rights Officer, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Estonia

SESSION 4: Institutional and policy framework for addressing gender-based violence
Moderator: Laura Albu, Executive Committee Member, European Women’s Lobby, Romania

• Jurgita Peciuriene, Gender Expert on Violence against Women, European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE)
• Oľga Pietruchová, Director of the Department for Gender Equality and Equal Opportunities, Ministry for Social Affairs and Family, Slovakia
• Kristiina Luht, Councillor of Gender-Based Violence Issues, Department of Equality Policies, Ministry of Social Affairs, Estonia
• Lucia Zachariášová, Head of Gender Equality Unit, Office of the Government of the Czech Republic 

• Siri Ellen Sletner, Norwegian Ambassador to the Czech Republic
• Robert Basch, Director of the Open Society Fund Prague, Czech Republic