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icy making positions. A woman heads only one of the 15 government agencies (state committees). There are no women in management positions on the staff of the President of Ukraine or in the execu tive branch of the government. Women have no power in decision making of any kind and this situation shows that the process in improving the status of women is moving far too slowly. There is one small promis ing note — while the percentage of women in the Verkhovna Rada is low, it is significantly higher in local government structures. The summary document of the Fourth World Conference on the Status of Women emphasizes that in the real world women still do not enjoy equal opportunities with men and discrimination of women still exists. In the years since it became an independent nation, Ukraine has ratified many of the UN Conventions, and has taken a definitive step towards the necessary achievement of gender equality. From the statistic presented above, however, it is clear that the issue of equality of women and men has not been addressed in full force. It will take much longer to eradicate the gap. Oddly enough, one important issue of gender equality in respect to the election of women to high pol icy positions is that women do not support women. It is a phenomenon that echoes throughout the world, one that helps make our position in high political posts so rare and so tenuous. Whether Ukrainian women support their candidates in the coming election will be interesting to follow. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948 outlines what it considered in the past century to be the fundamental consensus on the human rights of all people in relation to such matters as security of person, slavery, torture, protection of the law, freedom of movement and speech, religion and assembly and right to social security, work, health, education, culture and citizenship. The document clearly stipulates that these human rights apply to all equally. Clearly, this means women as well as men. This Universal document also covers all areas of our life and clearly, it should be ap plied to all aspects of life - including political life. If this is so, one wonders why it continues to be necessary to produce more documents on this issue and to implement more policies emanating from resolutions made on this issue at international conventions and conferences and within the United Nations itself. The UNWLA and the World Wide Web Since 1999, information about the UNWLA has been available on our own Internet website. Created by Martha T. Pelensky, UNWLA Ecol ogy/Environment Chair, the site is currently being maintained by Daria Budnyk, member of UNWLA Branch 125 of New York City. It is a bilingual site that offers comprehen sive information about our organization. This in cludes a brief historical overview of the UNWLA, a list of our current officers, and a statement of our mission and purpose. Interested browsers can also find detailed information about membership and about current UNWLA news. The site provides our Executive Committee, our Branches, and our Regional Councils a venue to alert the Ukrainian-American community to sched uled UNWLA events and programs throughout the United States. There is also a web page devoted to Our Life where one can view the cover of the latest issue of the magazine and see a list of articles that were published in that issue. The site also provides notification of special UNWLA events. It is an invaluable source of information for those who are planning to attend the XXVI UNWLA convention to be held from May 24 to May 27 this year in Sarasota, Florida. On special pages related to the convention, we have provided general information about the convention, useful facts about transportation and reservations, and in structions to presidents of Regional Councils and Branches who are planning to send voting delegates to participate in the scheduled policy making forums and elections. Bilingual convention registration forms are also available on the site. The UNWLA website is located at www.unwla.org and currently has links to The Ukrainian Museum, Brama, and Womenwatch, a site hosted by the United Nations on the advance ment and empowerment of women. We invite all of our readers to explore the site the next time they are browsing the web. Your comments and suggestions are welcome and can be directed to UNWLA President Iryna Kurowyckyj, to the webmaster, or to the editors of Our Life. 12 “НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, БЕРЕЗЕНЬ 2002 Видання C оюзу Українок A мерики - перевидано в електронному форматі в 2012 році . A рхів C У A - Ню Йорк , Н . Й . C Ш A.
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