News of the campaign #AllJobs4AllWomen Kazakhstan: cancellation of the list of prohibited professions and exclusion of discriminatory articles from the Labor Code On October 12, President Tokayev signed the Law “On Amendments and Additions to Several Legal Acts of the…
After considering the state report of Uzbekistan and alternative materials at its 81st session, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women published recommendations to the Government of the country. Important recommendations of the Committee relate to the…
The United Nations Information Service in Geneva: The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this afternoon heard from representatives of non-governmental organizations on the situation of women’s rights in Uzbekistan, Peru, Lebanon and the Dominican Republic, whose reports…
Happy New Year! The end of one calendar year and the start of another is a good time to talk about which events of the past year hold the promise of change and give us something to work on in…
openDemocracy: A Soviet-era law banning women from more than 200 jobs has finally been overturned in Kazakhstan. But the fight for gender parity is not over …The ban was originally established in the 1930s, when Soviet legislators argued that to…
The situation of women’s rights in Russia and Kyrgyzstan was evaluated at the recent 80th session of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. A number of important recommendations of the Committee to both countries relate to…
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