Paris-Saint-Petersbourg FIDH and its member organisation Anti-Discrimination Centre (ADC) Memorial denounce arrests of women who came out in Saint Petersburg on International Women’s Day on 8 March 2017 for an impromptu demonstration (or walk) to support the fight of women…
The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation invalidated the ban on the work of flight attendants for people with positive HIV status. In a separate ruling, Basmanny district court of Moscow illegalized the decision to ban entry to the Russian…
March 8 is the day of working women’s rights, a fact frequently forgotten in former Soviet countries, where the fight for worker’s rights and equality between men and women has been supplanted by flowers, gifts, and treats for “dear ladies.”…
Press relies of ADC Memorial and Centre for Social and Gender Research (Kiev) Brussels-Kiev The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) has published concluding observations on Ukraine after considering the 8th report of Ukraine. The Committee…
Our congratulations go to political prisoner Ildar Dadin, who was released from penitentiary colony No.7 in Karelia on February 22 and his partner Anastasia Zotova, who had made enormous efforts for his liberation.Both of them had drawn attention to the…
During the meeting of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (UN CEDAW), the head of the official Ukrainian delegation Natalia Fedorovich, chairman of the department of family, gender policy and combating human trafficking of the Ministry…
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