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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,…

In contemporary Belarus, the profession of tractor operator/machinist is classified as a job “with harmful and (or) dangerous work conditions banned for women.” In other words, the government of Belarus believes that women should not operate tractors and justifies this…