All jobs for all women campaign news

In March 2018, the RF Ministry of Labor presented a draft of a new “List of Harmful and Dangerous Workplace Factors and Jobs Restricted for Women.” During the public discussion, the first version of the amended list was criticized by…

Moscow 24 TV channel interviewed (in Russian) Olga Abramenko, expert of Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial”, and Svetlana Medvedeva, helmsman/motorist about reconsideration of the list of professions prohibited for women by the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection. Both interviewed are active…

Over the last several years Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” has been campaigning to abolish the lists of professions prohibited for women in all countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia #AllJobs4AllWomen. As a result of this campaign at the end of…

Following the consideration of the 5th state report of Turkmenistan on the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the United Nations’ Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) has adopted…

Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” presents a new video, whose heroine is a female mineworker Alla Latner from Ukraine. She stands for the abolition of the prohibition of underground work for women and for the need to preserve protective measures and improve…

On March 6, 2018 the European Parliament held hearings on “The right to work without gender discrimination: All Jobs for All Women”. Moderator: MEP Clare MOODY, Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Delegation to the EU-Armenia and EU-Azerbaijan Parliamentary…