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After the collapse of the [[Soviet Union]], Leinartė became actively involved in the promotion of women's rights and gender equality. Leinartė and her colleague are the first academics to have founded a [[non-governmental organization]] for women in [[Lithuania]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://eige.europa.eu/women-and-men-inspiring-europe-resource-pool/dalia-leinarte|title=Dalia Leinartė|website=European Institute for Gender Equality|language=en|access-date=2019-04-11}}</ref> "''Praeities Pėdos''" (Traces of the Past) is among the first Lithuanian organizations to introduce the notion of "women victims of trafficking", until then victims of this form of sexual abuse were treated as prostitutes.<ref name=":2" /> Until 2017, she was the director of the Gender Studies Center at [[Vilnius University]] and since 2000, she is a consultant of the Inter-Ministerial Commission on Equal Opportunities of Women and Men, [[Lithuania]]. Her responsibilities include women’s rights and position monitoring in line with the [[Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women|UN CEDAW Convention]], gender mainstreaming and gender equality implementation through national programs.<ref name=":1" />
After the collapse of the [[Soviet Union]], Leinartė became actively involved in the promotion of women's rights and gender equality. Leinartė and her colleague are the first academics to have founded a [[non-governmental organization]] for women in [[Lithuania]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://eige.europa.eu/women-and-men-inspiring-europe-resource-pool/dalia-leinarte|title=Dalia Leinartė|website=European Institute for Gender Equality|language=en|access-date=2019-04-11}}</ref> "''Praeities Pėdos''" (Traces of the Past) is among the first Lithuanian organizations to introduce the notion of "women victims of trafficking", until then victims of this form of sexual abuse were treated as prostitutes.<ref name=":2" /> Until 2017, she was the director of the Gender Studies Center at [[Vilnius University]] and since 2000, she is a consultant of the Inter-Ministerial Commission on Equal Opportunities of Women and Men, [[Lithuania]]. Her responsibilities include women’s rights and position monitoring in line with the [[Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women|UN CEDAW Convention]], gender mainstreaming and gender equality implementation through national programs.<ref name=":1" />


In 2012, Leinartė became the first expert from an Easter European country to be elected to the UN CEDAW.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://lygybe.lt/index.php/lt/profesore-dalia-leinarte-tarnybai-pristate-cedaw-komiteto-darba|title=Profesorė Dalia Leinartė Tarnybai pristatė CEDAW komiteto darbą {{!}} Lygybė|website=Profesorė Dalia Leinartė Tarnybai pristatė CEDAW komiteto darbą {{!}} Lygybė|language=lt|access-date=2019-04-11}}</ref> After serving two years as a Vice-Chair, she was elected as the Chair of the Committee in 2017.<ref name=":1" /> Since 2018 she is the Chair of the Committee's Working Group on General Recommendation Trafficking in Women and Girls in the Context of Global Migration''.'' Leinartė participated in drafting the reports of Lithuania to CEDAW, UN and drafted the Review of the Implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action Adopted, at the [[World Conference on Women, 1995|Fourth World Conference on Women Beijing 1995]].<ref name=":2" />
In 2012, Leinartė became the first expert from an Easter European country to be elected to the UN CEDAW.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://lygybe.lt/index.php/lt/profesore-dalia-leinarte-tarnybai-pristate-cedaw-komiteto-darba|title=Profesorė Dalia Leinartė Tarnybai pristatė CEDAW komiteto darbą {{!}} Lygybė|website=Profesorė Dalia Leinartė Tarnybai pristatė CEDAW komiteto darbą {{!}} Lygybė|language=lt|access-date=2019-04-11}}</ref> After serving two years as a Vice-Chair, she was elected as the Chair of the Committee in 2017.<ref name=":1" /> Since 2018 she is the Chair of the Committee's Working Group on General Recommendation Trafficking in Women and Girls in the Context of Global Migration''.'' Leinartė participated in drafting the reports of Lithuania to UN CEDAW and drafted the Review of the Implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action Adopted, at the [[World Conference on Women, 1995|Fourth World Conference on Women Beijing 1995]].<ref name=":2" />


Since 2010 Leinartė is a member of the Working Group for the Community of Democracies, Gender Equality at [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Lithuania)|Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs]].<ref name=":2" />
Since 2010 Leinartė is a member of the Working Group for the Community of Democracies, Gender Equality at [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Lithuania)|Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs]].<ref name=":2" />

Revision as of 14:01, 11 April 2019

Dalia Leinartė
Born(1958-10-25)25 October 1958
Alma materVilnius University, Vytautas Magnus University
Occupation(s)historian, writer, activist

Dalia Leinartė (born 25 October 1958) is a Lithuanian historian, writer and activist. She was the former Chair of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and is a Professor of Family History at Vilnius University. In 2018, Apolitical selected her as one of the 100 most influential people in gender policy around the world.[1]

Education

Leinartė was born in 1958, in Trakai, Lithuania (former USSR). In 1981, she graduated from Vilnius University and in 1996 she completed her PhD program in history at the Vytautas Magnus University.[2] She was a Visiting Professor in Gender Studies Program at Idaho State University, a Research Scholar at American Association of University Women and a FULBRIGHT Scholar at State University of New York at Buffalo.[2][3] Since 2009, she is a Professor of Family History at Vilnius University.

Career

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Leinartė became actively involved in the promotion of women's rights and gender equality. Leinartė and her colleague are the first academics to have founded a non-governmental organization for women in Lithuania.[4] "Praeities Pėdos" (Traces of the Past) is among the first Lithuanian organizations to introduce the notion of "women victims of trafficking", until then victims of this form of sexual abuse were treated as prostitutes.[4] Until 2017, she was the director of the Gender Studies Center at Vilnius University and since 2000, she is a consultant of the Inter-Ministerial Commission on Equal Opportunities of Women and Men, Lithuania. Her responsibilities include women’s rights and position monitoring in line with the UN CEDAW Convention, gender mainstreaming and gender equality implementation through national programs.[2]

In 2012, Leinartė became the first expert from an Easter European country to be elected to the UN CEDAW.[5] After serving two years as a Vice-Chair, she was elected as the Chair of the Committee in 2017.[2] Since 2018 she is the Chair of the Committee's Working Group on General Recommendation Trafficking in Women and Girls in the Context of Global Migration. Leinartė participated in drafting the reports of Lithuania to UN CEDAW and drafted the Review of the Implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action Adopted, at the Fourth World Conference on Women Beijing 1995.[4]

Since 2010 Leinartė is a member of the Working Group for the Community of Democracies, Gender Equality at Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.[4]

Since 2014 she is a Fellow Commoner at the Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge.[2]

Awards and Honors

(2018) Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (AABS), Honorable mention for her book The Lithuanian Family in Its European Context, 1800-1914: Marriage, Divorce and Flexible Communities[6]

(2018) Gender Equality Top 100. The Most Influential People in Global Policy[1]

(2012) Women Inspiring Europe Award (European Institute for Gender Equality)[4]

Publications

  • The Lithuanian Family in its European Context, 1800-1914: Marriage, Divorce and Flexible Communities. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017
  • The History of the Family, vol. 4, no 20, 2015. Cohabitation in Europe: a Revenge of History? Introduction & eds. Dalia Leinarte and Jan Kok. New York: Routledge, 2017
  • Dalia Leinarte, Kelly Hignett, Melanie Ilic , Corina Snitar and Eszter Zsofia Toth. Women’s Experiences of Repression in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, London: Routledge, 2017
  • The Soviet Past in the Post-Soviet Present, Introduction and eds Melanie Ilic, Dalia Leinarte. New York: Routledge, 2015
  • Dalia Leinarte. Cohabitation in imperial Russia: the case of Lithuania // The History of the Family 17(1): 16-3, 2012
  • Dalia Leinarte. On emotions. The correspondence between Algirdas Julius Greimas and Aleksandra Kasuba, 1988-1992, 2011
  • Adopting and Remembering Soviet Reality: Life Stories of Lithuanian Women, 1945–1970. Amsterdam, New York: Brill, 2010
  • Dalia Leinarte. Nationalism and family ideology: The case of Lithuania at the turn of the 20th century, 2006

References

  1. ^ a b "Gender Equality Top 100: The Most Influential People In Global Policy". Apolitical. Retrieved 2019-04-11.
  2. ^ a b c d e https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/CEDAW/CVMembers/DaliaLeinarte_2012.pdf
  3. ^ "Professor Dalia Leinarte - Lucy Cavendish". Lucy Cavendish College - University of Cambridge. Retrieved 2019-04-11.
  4. ^ a b c d e "Dalia Leinartė". European Institute for Gender Equality. Retrieved 2019-04-11.
  5. ^ "Profesorė Dalia Leinartė Tarnybai pristatė CEDAW komiteto darbą | Lygybė". Profesorė Dalia Leinartė Tarnybai pristatė CEDAW komiteto darbą | Lygybė (in Lithuanian). Retrieved 2019-04-11.
  6. ^ "Three Books Receive AABS Honorable Mentions | AABS". aabs-balticstudies.org. Retrieved 2019-04-11.