We invite you to a meeting with Elżbieta Jachlewska and Marianna Palider from Gdańsk Equal Treatment Centre, where we will discuss whether effective anti-discrimination measures are possible.

Date: Thursday, February 13, from 11 AM to 1 PM
Location: conference room in the Hydromechanics building no. 11
- above the Welcome Office (campus map)
Who is it for: everyone (staff and students)
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About the meeting

Gdańsk is a city for everyone – we believe in this and, together with many local organizations, we strive to take various actions that help prevent discrimination and hate violence.

We achieve this goal not only through social campaigns, training, and workshops but, most importantly, by spreading knowledge and building and reinforcing the awareness that anyone who has experienced discrimination can reach out to the Gdańsk Equal Treatment Centre and receive free and efficient help, which we will design together. Our goal is that no one is left without help – abandoned with their harm and humiliation.

For many years, we have been actively promoting equal rights and raising awareness about the opposition to hate speech and discrimination based on the following grounds: race/ethnicity, gender, age, health/disability, psychosexual orientation, religion/non-religion, or economic situation.

From the very beginning of our work on the Equal Treatment Model, our dream has been to build a society where there is no room for any "Yes, BUT..." when it comes to such fundamental rights as human rights, the right to equal treatment, which is a right, not a privilege...

During this meeting, we will try to highlight the diverse aspects of equal treatment in relation to statutory grounds. We will take a closer look at the cases that have reached the Gdańsk Equal Treatment Centre in recent years and jointly identify which aspects related to the broad issue of equal treatment and anti-discrimination concern each and every one of us.

Elżbieta Jachlewska – Europeanist, economist, politician, and social activist. Vice-President of the WAGA Association, coordinator of numerous socio-cultural projects, including the Gdańsk Equal Treatment Centre and the Gdańsk Integration Centre. President of the Ich Własna Liga Sports Club. Leader of the Feminist Initiative, member of the first term of the Gdańsk Equal Treatment Council, coordinator of the gender group within the Gdańsk Equal Treatment Model. She co-created the "Mama ma Pomysł" program, which empowers women to start small businesses, and the "Etat Tata" campaign, promoting gender equality in the labor market. She organized conferences at the University of Gdańsk, such as “Krzywicka, Emancipator of the Interwar Period," "Women in Public Spaces," and a lecture series "Equal Opportunities in the Labor Market." She initiated the creation of the documentaries "Kobieta bez przestrzeni" and "Założę czerwone spodnie". She completed a series of training courses on "Preparing staff for education on equal opportunities, counteracting mobbing, and discrimination" as part of the "Cooperation Program between the City of Gdańsk and non-governmental organizations for 2019."
 

Marianna Palider – Board Member of the WAGA Association, psychologist, trainer with many years of experience – she conducts training, workshops, lectures, and psychoeducational meetings. She completed a series of training courses on "Preparing staff for education on equal opportunities, counteracting mobbing, and discrimination" and participated in the development of the Equal Treatment Model in the "Education" group. Since 2019, she has been a specialist for support at the Gdańsk Equal Treatment Centre. She co-created projects aimed at equalizing opportunities for women and men, including the nationwide social campaign "Etat Tata." She is a specialist in the diagnostics and therapy of individuals on the autism spectrum and a certified psychotherapist from the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy School at SWPS University in Sopot. She is also a member of the Polish Society of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Additionally, she is involved in the activities of the Ich Własna Liga Association.