Family Forum
The Modern Family Forum was organized by Insight NGO with the support of the British Embassy in Ukraine
It took place online on March 28, 2020, streamed to the Insight NGO Facebook page.
What exactly is this forum about, and why does it matter to talk about modern families in Ukraine?
Whenever “traditional values” come up, the question of the traditional Ukrainian family inevitably follows. But what is that family?What does the Ukrainian family look like today?What challenges do all these different families face, what do they look like, and what do they strive for?
We talked about the newest Ukrainian families, which are often invisible and discriminated against in legal, cultural, social, and economic contexts
At the forum we spoke about the families that most often fall outside the frame of the “traditional family”:
- families that include people with disabilities
- modern Roma families
- LGBTQI+ families
- and about the whole diversity of families living in Ukraine today
More details: the online family forum program.
Discussion “Human rights vs. traditional values”
Participants:
- Anna Dovhopol, coordinator of the Gender Democracy program at the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Ukraine, co-editor of Gender in Detail.
- Olena Shevchenko, chair of Insight NGO, human rights defender, LGBTQI+ activist.
- Uliana Movchan, political scientist, expert at Insight NGO
Discussion “Domestic and gender-based violence”
Participants:
- Marta Chumalo, deputy head of the Women’s Perspectives Center
- Khrystyna Kit, attorney, head of the Ukrainian Women Lawyers Association JurFem
- Alona Kryvuliak, director of the National Hotlines and Social Assistance Department at La Strada-Ukraine
Presentation of the analytical review “Transgender families in Ukraine and around the world”
Speaker: Inna Iryskina, coordinator of the transgender program at Insight NGO, expert on transgender issues, human rights defender
Discussion “(Non-)traditional families in Ukraine: how to arrange your social and economic relationships”
Participants:
- Anna Lytvynova, lawyer at Insight NGO
- Oksana Huz, attorney, senior partner at the Prove law firm
Lecture “The modern Ukrainian family: a feminist perspective”
Speaker: Olena Strelnyk, sociologist, doctor of sociological sciences, gender researcher
Project website: https://familyforum.com.ua/