ARIADNA –THE ROMANIAN WOMEN JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION Presentation

Romania 16, Stirbei Voda Street, ap.21, fl.5, sect.1, 010112, Bucharest Telefax : 004021 3146014; 0040744 37 66 05; e-mail: asociatiaariadna@gmail.com

ARIADNA PROFILE NGO Date of establishment : July 31, 1992, Court decision 275 , Sector 1 Bucharest Court Contact : Georgeta Adam, Phd., president

Vision,mission, values Organization goals : gender issues, promoting of equality between women and man Preoccupations: gender issues, political participation, education, images of women (media, arts), violence against women, women studies, women human rights, peace & armed conflicts, children in need

Brief overview .... • Since 1992 Association of Women Journalists in Romania "Ariadna" organized many projects, programs, conferences, training courses on equality of chances between women and men, training for media and democracy, media and violence against women; • Contributed to the promotion of equal opportunities and laws against domestic violence by the Romanian Parliament; • In 1995 Ariadna Association participated at the World Conference on Women in Beijing organized by UN • Ariadna has supported the establishment of the first Women's Secretariat Ministry of Labour in Romania (1996) • Contributed to the National Agency for Family Protection (ANPF) and National Agency for Equal Opportunities (ANES).

NGOs activities: Symposiums (“Women in politics”), 1992 Cultural events: book launching, university lectures (Dalles People’s University-1992-1993 :”Women Planet”), Club Ariadna, poetry shows, theatre play „Maria Tanase” 1993; Press issues for promoting women image ( radio & TV programs features, essays, books); Stop violence! Mass media and violence against women PHARE LIEN financed programmme (1996-1997) ; GE-ME-RO – Gender – Media – România (Women and Media in the Romanian Post-communist Society) in co-operation with International Training Centre for Women (ITW), Amsterdam (1998-2000) in Matra for Democracy No Violence in the Third Millennium – Women Against Violence (1999) USIS financed programmme, in co-operation with the Institute for Crime Prevention of Romanian Police

Cultural Programs Show dedicated to Maria Tanase, with the participation of prominent art ists (Floarea Calota, Adriana Trandafir and others) (1996); Exhibitions of paintings (Elron - On the trail of the Bible, Bucharest, 1999, Miriam Benhaim - The bird flight (2000); Book launches in Bucharest : Romanian writers and media from outside Romania; Donations of books for students from high schools from Chisinau (2002) and CRI (Association of Romanians in Vojvodina) 1998; 20 books edited by ADAM Publishing House in cooperation with Ariadna Association.

VARIOUS ACTIVITIES Ariadna organized various visits to the Republic of Moldova for journalists and donated numerous books for libraries in Chisinau, for the Moldovan Writers' Union and several schools. Women against Violence, 2004-2005, in partnership with the Coalition VIF Youth Radio Romania hosted Ariadna’s radioprogram The price is your life on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings (2004) 2004 - involved about 100 observers to monitor parliamentary elections presidential elections in Romania.

National Partners COM - Convention of the Media Network of Women's Organizations ROWL - Women Lobby Romania Bucharest Writers Association Foundation Radio Romania Coalition VIF (NGOs actives in domestic violence issues)

Partners : Founding member of the National Consultative Women Council of Romania (1995) Co-operation programs with Romanian Journalist Society, Professional Journalist Union and Romanian Radio Broadcasting Society and with number of other radio &TV stations Is co-operating with UNDP and with numerous other NGOs (e.g. League for Defense of Human Rights) in Romania and abroad.

National Affiliations Romanian Women’s Lobby (RoWL) NET FAM Network Member - Federation of fighting against Trafficking in Human Beings (2004); Member of CONES (National Commission for Equal Opportunities between Women and Men) (2005-2009); • Member of the Regional Compact for Employment and Social Inclusion Bucharest Ilfov (January 2010)

European Partners EWL – European Women’s Lobby (Bruxelles)

Financed by: Phare Lien, USIS, Matra for Democracy - Netherlands, ILO-IPEC, Ministry of Labour, Ministry of Culture, MAE, Grundtvig Programme, Erasmus+

International Communication Violence in Media - Communication Forum held at the family, child, XXI Century, Athens, 1998; • Status of Women in Romania, communication presented at the International Congress of Women in the Mediterranean, Valencia, March 1999. • Migrants en EU (Grundvig Workshop, Paris, February 2010).

European Programmes Grundtvig LLP – “Elderly Memories” 2010-2012 (8 partners) Grundtvig LLP – “Voix des Femmes” 2011-2013 (coordinator, 3 partners) Grundtvig LLP – “International Poetic Alphabet” 2012-2014 (7 partners) Erasmus+ – “MATHGAMES” (10 partners)