Brussels, 03/06/2010 (Agence Europe) - On 2 and 3 June in Yalta (Ukraine), the Council of Europe held a conference for providing a comparative analysis of guarantees for the protection of the rights of women and children in the various European states. The aim of the conference, which is on protecting women and children through human rights based instruments, is to assist Ukraine in establishing a modern, national policy in order to overcome the lack of sensitivity with respect to equality and the rights of women and children, and also to encourage enhanced implementation of the revised European Social Charter, a Council of Europe press release states.
Among the participants was Iryna Kruchec, First Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Policy of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, as well as Professor Andrzej Swiatkowski and Professor Csilla Kollonay-Kehoczky, deputy chairman and a member of the European Social Rights Committee respectively.
The conference was organised within the framework of the joint project with the European Union on strengthening the protection of the rights of women and children in Ukraine (TRES project). For information see: http://www.coe.int/trs . (G.B./transl.jl)