The Roundtable of Estonian Women's Associations is also the Estonian national coordinator in the European Women's Lobby.

Civil Defence (column 14) Is not funded through the Defence Budget.

It is more difficult for women to get elected.

The Estonian Olympic Committee promotes the movement Women in Sport .

The developmental centres form a network which is coordinated by the Enterprise Estonia Foundation.

The Roundtable of Estonian Women's Associations unites approximately 180 organisations.

The commission participates in the work of the ICFTU (International Confederation of Free Trade Unions) Women's Committee.

The book was published in Estonian in November 2004.

The Enterprise Estonia Foundation is continuously accepting applications to grant counselling allowances.

Since 2003 the Estonian Chamber of Agriculture and Commerce operates as a national coordinating centre in Estonia.

The Round Table of Estonian Women's Organizations had also concluded a cooperation agreement with the Georgian Coalition of Women's Organizations.

Different women's organisations the Association of Rural Women in Estonia, the Association of Business and Professional Women in Estonia (BPW Estonia), the Union of Estonian Women, Estonian Women's Defence League, also women's associations of political parties have an extensive network in Estonia.

The above mentioned Estonian village and small town movement Kodukant also supports and promotes the movement of families, women and young people.

Since 2002, six married couples with both spouses in diplomatic posts work in the foreign service of Estonia.

149 251 persons have acquired Estonian citizenship by naturalisation, 65 418 of them are men and 83 833 are women.

Besides membership in rural women's organisations, rural women also belong to other national women's organisations.

Estonian NGOs had been particularly active in promoting gender equality outside Estonia.

The aim of the Cooperation Chain is to serve as a link for Estonian women in domestic and international cooperation, to support participation of women in society and politics, to improve the internal political climate in society, to ensure the implementation of the principle of equality of women and men in Estonian legislation, politics and daily life.

On 4 August 2003 the Estonian Women's Cooperation Chain was established which is an umbrella organisation for different women's political organisations.

In July 2003 the Roundtable of Estonian Women's Associations was formed in cooperation between women's organisations and human rights organisations.

The results of the survey show that almost a third of Estonian households live in poor conditions or in conditions not suitable for their housing needs.

The time of processing applications for Estonian citizenship in the Citizenship and Migration Board was reduced from 6 months to 3 months.

In 2000, the ILO publication ABC of women workers' rights and gender equality was translated into Estonian and published.

In Estonian legislation, provisions concerning the special protection of women in connection with pregnancy and childbirth are not considered as direct or indirect discrimination based on sex.

In order to raise the awareness of employers and employees, the ILO publication ABC of women workers' rights and gender equality has been translated into Estonian.

So far only one petition has been submitted to the Chancellor or Justice where the petitioner complained that the requirements for applying for Estonian citizenship were discriminating.

In addition to informing the public about the movement of Estonian rural women and the history of farm culture, the organisation also helps to solve social problems in the countryside.

They were negotiated and signed in Tartu in Estonia in 1920 after the Finnish Civil War, and after war and a truce on January 1, 1920 between Bolshevik Russia and Estonia.

Estonian society magazines and women's magazines often present very stereotypical portraits of women and men, and consequently reinforce and recreate traditional gender roles.

At the end of 2003 the first support group for women suffering violence was opened in Tallinn at the initiative of the non governmental organisation Centre for Estonian Social Programmes.

PRAXIS Centre for Policy Studies conducted a survey of wage differences in 2004, based on the database of Estonian labour force in the years 1998 2000.

The number of organisations that are members of the Confederation of Estonian Trade Unions (EAKL) has diminished as compared to the situation at the end of the previous reporting period, but this is due to the merging of several member organisations.

In certain limited business spheres the Enterprise Estonia Foundation offers start up capital to enterprises outside Tallinn that have been active for less than a year.

Another larger organisation that unites trade unions is the Estonian Employees' Unions' Confederation (TALO). TALO has 13 member organisations but the number of individual members is 32 000.

On 11 June, UNOMIG and the Estonian Public Service Academy signed a memorandum of understanding on mutual cooperation, including the provision of basic police training and training of the trainers for law enforcement officers.

On the level of doctoral studies the so called female fields are pedagogy (82 ), medicine (77 ), journalism (70 ), social work (64 ) and Estonian philology (64 ).

In November 2004 the forum of women's organisations approved the declaration of the Estonian Women's Cooperation Chain which called political parties to place competent and authoritative women on top of lists of candidates and voters to support women candidates.

The Financial Supervision Authority will ensure that, as soon as the Committee established by paragraph 14 of the resolution has drawn up the list of designated persons, all funds, other financial assets and economic resources belonging to the designated persons discovered by the Estonian financial institutions will be frozen.

According to the Estonian child and family policy conception, family policy serves primarily the following aims (a) improving the quality of life of children and families with children, (b) supporting the reconciling of family life and work, and (c) valuing of the raising of children.

An Estonian citizen with active legal capacity from 25 to 70 years of age who resides in Estonia, has proficiency of the Estonian language at the advanced level, and is of suitable moral character for the activity of a lay judge may be appointed as a lay judge.

Based on a survey conducted by the Network of Estonian Non Profit Organisations in 2003, it is possible to claim that Estonian people strongly believe that the people themselves should participate in solving local and national problems, and not leave it to politicians, officials, the Parliament or the Government.

According to the Courts Act, which entered into force on 29 July 2002, an Estonian citizen who has fulfilled an accredited law curriculum of academic studies, has proficiency of the Estonian language at the advanced level, is of high moral character and has the abilities and personal characteristics necessary for working as a judge may be appointed as a judge.

The NGO Estonian Women's Studies and Resource Centre and the Roundtable of Estonian Women's Association have expressed concern that the statute of the Commissioner has not been adopted and the Commissioner has not started to fulfil his or her functions within eight months from entering into force of the Act.

A person may be admitted to the Bar Association if he or she has active legal capacity, resides in Estonia or is a citizen of the Republic of Estonia or of a Member State of the European Union, has fulfilled an accredited law curriculum of academic studies, has oral and written proficiency in Estonian and is honest and of high moral character.