-Six months ago, Kazakhstan shortened the list of professions banned for women and removed 68 jobs from it, but another 219 specializations remain banned. Curiously, these jobs do not match bans proposed for introduction in Russia. How do employment bans…
Interview with Marifat Davlatova, feminist artist (please do not use the female form of artist) – What is the situation with employment for women in Tajikistan? – I obviously knew that banned professions exist in Tajikistan, but I didn’t know…
According to the WHO, one of the most common forms of violence experience by women globally is intimate partner violence. Almost one third (30%) of women worldwide reported that they experienced such kind of violence. Any kind of violence, within…
Grégoire Théry, Co-founder and executive director of the Coalition for the Abolition of Prostitution (CAP international) How do you establish a link between prostitution and women discrimination? All over the world, and throughout History, the most discriminated and vulnerable women…
In advance of a review of the situation of women in Kazakhstan by CERD and CESCR as part of the Universal Periodic Review process, the Kazakh government has adopted a new version of the listed of professions banned for women,…
During the 40th session of the Human Rights Council, the week of February 25 to March 1 was declared a week in support of women human rights defenders. Michel Forst, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders,…
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