International projects

Empowering CSOs: Strengthening Human Rights Advocacy for Imprisoned Women

24/8/2023

This project is dedicated to enhancing the protection of female prisoners' human rights and bolstering awareness among decision-makers. It is a joint effort between civil sector organizations from Croatia and Norway, with the goal of fostering better advocacy practices and networks to understand the unique challenges faced by women entangled in the legal system.

Female inmates often endure discrimination based on gender, age, and ethnicity. Widespread stigmatization and negative public attitudes towards incarcerated women hinder reporting and addressing instances of violence. Consequently, civil society organizations struggle to provide adequate support to female inmates. To tackle this issue, this project aims to develop effective advocacy tools, improve legislative frameworks, and enhance the protection of human rights for female prisoners and juvenile offenders.

Project activities encompass conducting research, creating advocacy tools, launching awareness campaigns, working closely with incarcerated individuals and young offenders, organizing a series of workshops to enhance stakeholder capacity and competence, and ultimately producing a comprehensive thematic report.

Funding for this initiative is provided by the Active Citizens Fund, and it is a collaborative effort between Likestillingssenteret KUN, Parents in Action (RODA – Roditelji u akciji), the Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Zagreb, and the Faculty of Law's Study Center for Social Work at the University of Zagreb.

Project manager: Kirill Gurvich, project team member: Ingjerd Hansen

Healthy Relationships

24/10/2022

“Healthy Relationships”
2022-2023, EEA Grants, Civil Society programme
In cooperation with Association for Human Rights and Civic Participation PaRiter, Croatia

Project “Healthy Relationships" focuses on the problem of lacking content in the field of Comprehensive Sexuality Education in school curricula and insufficient recognition of its importance.

The main goal of the project is to contribute to the introduction of Comprehensive Sexuality Education in primary and secondary schools in the Republic of Croatia. The project activities will also be aimed at establishment of a dialogue with local and regional self-government units, as well as at raising public awareness on importance and value of sexuality education in schools.

Project coordinator at KUN Center for Equality and Diversity is Tanya Skjønhaug

Meeting project in Croatia, Rijeka
15. -16. January 2023

KUN Centre for Equality and Diversity participated in the meeting for the project “Healthy relationships”, that is being carried out by SOS Rijeka – Center for Nonviolence and Human Rights, and in collaboration with Lesbian Organization Rijeka “LORI”, Association Delta, Association for Human Rights and Civic Participation PaRiter, local and regional self-government units: City of Rijeka and Varaždin County.
During the two working days the partner organizations had the chance to exchange knowledge and fruitful discussions on the topics of gender equality and empowerment, equal opportunities and work-life balance, gender-based violence, and gender diversity. Furthermore, we discussed the issues of comprehensive sexual education in school curricula on the example of Norway and Croatia, and ideas for future cooperation and new mutual projects were outlined.

2-day workshop on the topic “Sexual health education on the example of Norway”
17.-18. January 2021

The purpose of the 2-days workshop was to show different exercises, approaches, and practical ways of how one can work with different themes within the topic of sexual education. The seminar was open to everyone who is interested in implementing content of comprehensive sexual education in their work and was particularly aimed at professionals working with children and young people in Primorje-Gorski Kotar, Varaždin, and Sisak-Moslavina counties.

Over 20 educators, teachers, psychologists, and people from the civil sector attended the workshop. Participants of the workshop had fruitful discussions and knowledge sharing on how one can cover CSE topics on all levels of education from kindergarten to high school. Some of the themes that we elaborated one included relationships and feelings, digital sexuality, laws and sexual rights, gender and sexuality, boundarysetting and consent, and others.