The Resource Center for Women “Marta” promotes mutual suppport, understanding, and solidarity between women, regardless of a woman`s age, ethnicity, or socioeconomic status. Center “Marta” educates clients about their rights, provides them with information, and helps women develop their knowledge base and competency so that women gain confidence in their own abilities to successfully realize [...]
When You suffer from human trafficking , Centre Marta can offer asisstance. Call the toll-free HOTLINE 80002012 By trafficking MARTA understands: prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation; forced labor or services; slavery or slavery-like jobs servitude; the removal of organs. Children and adolescents the world over are recruited and involved in human trafficking with the aim of using them for various dirty and heavy industrial and agricultural activities, [...]
If you suffer from discrimination with regard to employment, education, health protection or social security, MARTA’s lawyers can help. MARTA works for the elimination of discrimination. When helping a woman, experts of Centre MARTA realize quite often that the client has encountered unjustifiable dissimilar attitude, i.e., direct or indirect discrimination with regard to employment, education, health [...]
Power and influence are interrelated concepts. Then there are many types of political processes, so it is important to know when, where, and how to intervene. Decision-makers are reluctant to hear the claims, which are expressed in accordance with the needs of society, but happy to listen to the evidence and factual arguments that can help policy makers in their work. The Latvian Women’s Network provides coordinated participation in shaping interests and joint policy development at national and EU level institutions. Centre MARTA is actively involved [...]
Marta offers legal services as well as psychological counselling, coaching and general orientation to any woman suffering from discrimination, violence or trafficking. The labour market in Latvia is not friendly for women, EU official information testifies that employment indicators compared between genders show different attitude towards men and women, difference in working conditions, in salary and lower [...]
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STAFF Iluta Lace Manager of the Association Juris Dilba Head of specialists team Gundega Tentere PR specialist Dita Lace Financial director Izita Klavina Lawyer Annele Tetere Policy coordinator Dana Indane Creative Project Coordinator Sarmite Zate-Jurevica Client consultant Mariona Baltkalne Project assistant Lolita Borovska Administrator and Accountant Jelena Kalinichenko Secretary Sandra Lazdina Chief accountant SPECIALISTS Liga [...]
When You suffer from human trafficking , Centre Marta can offer asisstance. Call the toll-free HOTLINE 80002012 By trafficking MARTA understands: prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation; forced labor or services; slavery or slavery-like jobs servitude; the removal of organs. Children and adolescents the world
France leads the way to make protitution a thing of the primitive past
The emblematic and foundational purpose of this vote and motion in France were made apparent by Guy Geoffroy, the Commission’s principal reporter, in an interview prior to the vote: “The resolution is the first step and we decided, symbolically, that as of the moment of the adoption of this resolution, adoption which is not in [...]
When you are not free to choose
Trafficking of human beings consists of the recruitment, enslavement and harbouring of people with the aim of exploitation. Victims of this practice can be attracted by false promises on better financial opportunities or sometimes they are physically forced. A great number of victims of human trafficking end up to be exploited in the sex industry, [...]
Most trafficking is related to prostitution or other forms of sexual exploitation. Most involved in prostitution are women and girls, but most of the abusers, pimps, recruiters, as well as the buyers are men. Sexual exploitation is one is one of the main objectives of trafficking of human beings. trafficking includes a variety of activities: production of pornographic materials; forced stripping or nude dancing ; live broadcast of sex [...]
Marta offers legal services as well as psychological counselling, coaching and general orientation to any woman suffering from discrimination, violence or trafficking. The labour market in Latvia is not friendly for women, EU official information testifies that employment indicators compared between genders
Latvian traditional roles for men and women are still very unequal. Changing these traditional gender stereotypes is an important way to reduce the risk that young people become victims of violence, and also thus vulnerable to human trafficking. The Resource Centre for Women MARTA implemented for over two years,
Depkina Manor House of Ramava leaders’ training
Retrospect on the Deepening Training for Girl and Boy Group Leaders, organized within the Project “Challenging Gender Roles for Prevention of Trafficking” funded by the Central Baltic INTERREG IV A programme 2007-2013 Depkina Manor House of Ramava, Riga region December 3 to 5, 2010 Read more… This post is also available in: Russian, Latvian
Forming youth leaders – impact!
How effective are the group methods for young leaders? At the beginning of the process very few youngsters in Latvia had given thought to what is the meaning of gender equality. Now, the young women and men say that… gender roles and expectations from society about the behaviour of girls and boys put real pressure on [...]
We saw amazing changes take place in the behavior of the young participants. For example the boys became less aggressive and violent. Enjoy watching how we organise work in youth groups, and a bit of insight into how does the youth group method works? You may also enjoy to watch Effectiveness of the Group Method [...]
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