ALTERNATIVE REPORT ON IMPLEMENTATION OF THE UN CONVENTION ON THE ELIMINATION OF ALL FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN
24 грудня 1980 року
24 December 1980 the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, which enabled the country to make a significant step to change approaches to policy of equal rights and opportunities for women and men. The Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner’s for Human Rights monitoring of implementation of the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women covers following areas WOMEN'S ACCESS TO EDUCATION
WOMEN'S WAGES
WOMEN'S ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE
TRAFFICKING IN WOMEN
PARTICIPATION OF WOMEN IN THE POLITICAL AND PUBLIC LIFE
RIGHTS OF RURAL WOMEN
WOMEN'S ACCESS TO THE SERVICES PROVIDED BY SHELTERS FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
IN 2014, A TOTAL OF 69 883 WOMEN WERE FIRST DIAGNOSED WITH MALIGNANT TUMORS
THE GENERAL LITERACY LEVEL
WOMEN'S ACCESS TO EDUCATION
WOMEN'S ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE STUDENT RATIO
69 883
in the secondary school
99,6%
99,8%
women
men
THE ACCESS TO EDUCATION WAS ONE OF THE MOST CRITICAL ISSUES FOR ROMA WOMEN
92,5
89,9
female
male
2014
malignant tumors of the breast
in the elementary school
The main reasons for low school attendance rate among Roma girls are:
102
88,5
female
male
• poverty and nomadism of the Roma community; • lack of motivation to make their children attend school among Roma parents; • lack of money to pay for education, for school clothes and supplies; • early marriage among Roma girls and early pregnancy; • lack of personal documents.
RECOMMENDATIONS
first diagnosed with malignant tumors
13 526
10 727
10 495
malignant tumors of the skin malignant tumors of uterus
A COMMON METHOD OF FERTILITY REGULATION IN UKRAINE IS ABORTION Share of pregnancies stopped by abortions Age when abortion was made 35-49 20,2% 25-34 15,4% 20-24 9,4% <20 14,7%
Consecutive number of pregnancy fifth and subsequent fourth third second first
33,1% 35,1% 26,1% 12,2% 5,2%
Location rural 7,5% urban 16,3%
RECOMMENDATIONS
Carry out information campaigns among the Roma community to highlight the need to send their children to school;
Disseminate easy-to-understand information materials on family planning and reproductive health among girls and women;
Consider using the school premises to house the ‘catch-up’ programmes for Roma children who missed school and evening classes for the adults.
Train women on breast auto screening techniques as one of the methods of early breast cancer detection.