THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC SITUATION OF WOMEN FROM: ALBANIA, AZERBAIJAN, ARMENIA, BELARUS, BOSNIA AND HERCEGOVINA, GEORGIA, KAZAKHSTAN, KYRGYZSTAN, MACEDONIA, MOLDOVA, MONTENEGRO, SERBIA, UKRAINE, AND UZBEKISTAN.
 
Deadline for applications is October 15, 2008.
 
The photographs must be taken in the aforementioned countries. The participants of the competition must be women, over 18 years of age. Both amateur and professional photographers can apply.
 
Each photo must be a commentary on the economic situation of women in those countries in the context of development. They can address any of the issues listed below, but do not have to be limited to them:
 
•Existing stereotypes about the economic role of women versus reality
 
•Women in non-traditional occupations or professions
•Reconciling paid employment and family responsibilities
•The diversity of women’s economic activity
•Obstacles to women’s economic activity
•Development problems faced by women
•Women’s expectations, ambitions, goals related to their professional life
•The economic position of women in the context of the EU Neighbourhood Policy
•The link between the economic situation of women in Albania, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan and EU
 
•Feminism and the economic situation of women
•Social expectations of women versus reality
•Women and poverty – breaking the cycle
•The interdependence, correlation, and challenges in relations between the EU and the aforementioned developing countries.
 
The best 50 photographs will be included in a photo exhibition held in Belgium, Germany, Poland, and Slovakia.
 
•The authors of the 3 best works will be chosen by an international jury. The results of the competition will be published until January 2009.
 
The authors of 3 best works will receive a trophy and will be invited to the exhibitions in Berlin in 2009 and Brussels in 2010. (For the authors of the 3 best works, all costs associated with attending the exhibition, such as travel, accommodation, meals, visa costs, will be covered).
 
Participation in this prestigious exhibition will guarantee the laureates international recognition and exposure via the exhibitions as well as printed and electronic publication during the project as well as after its conclusion.
 
Photographs already published will be accepted under a condition that copyright of these photographs can be passed to KARAT Coalition.
 
The authors of up to 50 works selected for the exhibition will be requested to sign appropriate documents based on Polish copyright law, on the basis of which the copyright to their works will be passed to KARAT Coalition. Only works by authors who will sign the document will be included in the exhibition.
 
The photographs which will form the exhibition will be selected by project partners.
 
The photographs will be accepted by email at: photo.competition.2008@gmail.com or on CD sent by post to the following address:
 
Koalicja KARAT
"Photo Exhibition"
ul. Solec 85, 4th floor
00—382 Warsaw
Poland
 
Detailed competition regulations are available from KARAT Coalition (to receive a copy please write to Ewa Pintera: ewa.pintera@karat.org.pl) and from 1 July 2008 will be published on KARAT Coalition’s website: www.karat.org
 
The competition is a part of a large regional, development education project co-funded by the European Commission. The project is implemented by KARAT Coalition. In Georgia the project is being implemented in partnership with GenderMediaCaucasus Journalists' Association.
 
The participants have to complete and submit the below form with each of photographs, or series of photographs.

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