The GEA Feedback Sessions is now over

Thank you for your participation in the Gender Equality in the Arctic Feedback Sessions. We also welcome you to follow us to know more about the upcoming Pan-Arctic Report on Gender Equality Issues.

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A series of six online GEA Feedback Sessions is now completed. Topics on Empowerment, Law and Governance, Migration and Mobility, Gender and Environment, Violence and Reconciliation, and Gender and Security were discussed. Each Feedback Session corresponded with a chapter in the upcoming Pan-Arctic Report on Gender Equality Issues. During these online events the lead- and co-authors each presented ongoing work on their chapters. The main goal of the Feedback Sessions was to bring together lead-authors, contributors, Indigenous participants, experts and commentators of the Report´s chapter to present their ongoing work and discuss the topics of each chapter.

In total more than 170 participants from 25 countries attended the Feedback Sessions and representatives from the Saami Council and other permanent Arctic Council participants took active part in the Feedback Sessions. During each session an English-Russian-English interpretation was provided. Lead authors of each chapter received valuable comments, opinions, questions, suggestions, connections and contributions which will facilitate further development of the Report.       

With your support and engagement we have succesfully conducted six Feedback Sessions:

Session 1, Empowerment
Session 2, Law and Governance
Session 3, Migration and Mobility
Session 4, Gender and Environment
Session 5, Violence and Reconciliation
Session 6, Security

Description of each session, list of participants and main topics discussed during the Feedback Sessions are available here.

Information about the Pan-Arctic Report on Gender Equality Issues and the lead-authors bio’s are available here.

You can follow further development of the Report on the GEA website, GEA Facebook, GEA Twitter.

Photo Call – Gender Equality in the Arctic Phase III Report & Website

The GEA III Team is looking for images for the publication of the GEA Pan-Arctic Report, GEA promotional materials and GEA website. We welcome images depicting the Arctic, highlighting its people to add to the GEA Report’s chapters: Empowerment, Environment, Law and Governance, Migration and Mobility, Security, and Violence and Reconciliation.

When submitting photos depicting people please always make sure to include contact information of those depicted in the photo so we can – if we decide to use it – contact the persons in question for permission of use.  

Although we are not able to pay for images, we of course credit photographers and can provide a printed version of the report, should that be requested. With each photo submission, GEA requires:

For print, the image quality must be around at least 3500x2500 pixels (300 dpi).

Please note: if we do not receive the information from Google form, we cannot use your pictures.

If you have questions write to Andrii Gladii at ag@arcticiceland.is
Thank you to all those who make the effort to send in photos. We may receive more photographs than we can use and therefore have to make a selection based on quality, as well as geographical and thematic representation. We only notify the photographers whose contributions are selected for publication. 

What is the GEA Times?

One of the main objectives of the GEA project is to put the spotlight on gender equality issues in the Arctic. The GEA Times is a venue for us, and you, to contribute to the discussion and to put focus on gender equality in the Arctic, and to promote events and material related to Arctic gender equality. We hope that the GEA Times will help strengthen the GEA community.

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About the GEA project

Gender Equality in the Arctic is an international collaborative Sustainable Development Working Group project focusing on gender equality in the Arctic

The purpose of this project is to promote an extensive, policy-relevant dialogue on issues of gender equality in the Arctic region in the context of current realities in terms of economic and social development as well as current and future challenges, inter alia relating to climatic and environmental changes.

The Gender Equality in the Arctic project is endorsed by the Arctic Council Sustainable Development Working Group
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