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16.03.2016

Women 404 : the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women has condemned the ban on women working as maritime professionals on board seagoing and river ships of the Russian Federation

ADC Memorial’s legal proceedings (that have lasted for more than 3 years), successfully proved that the practice of listing certain professions prohibited for women in the Russian Federation is discriminatory.  This concerns the 456 professions in 38 fields of work...
26.10.2015

Women’s rights and childbirth

Contrary to a popular belief that gender equality supposedly had been established long time ago and forever, women’s rights continue to be violated in many countries throughout the world, Russia being one of them. On October 26, 2015, the UN...