In Russia, It’s a Woman’s Job to Challenge Soviet-Era Labor Laws. It took Svetlana Medvedeva five years to fight for her right to become a captain After being rejected by the shipping company, Medvedeva immediately contested the decision with little…
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A trial that opens today and sees a 31-year-old female navigation officer sue a Russian shipping company who refused to employ her as a ship’s captain, represents a landmark challenge to Russia’s sexist and outdated labour regulations, said Amnesty International….
The Independent: The state deems them to be too ‘dangerous’ or ‘harmful’ to their reproductive health
Infant’s death remained uninvestigated
St. Petersburg city court has upheld an earlier court decision and refused to open a criminal investigation into the death of a 5-month-old Tajik baby Umarali Nazarov, who had died in a hospital where he had been sent from a…
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) started to consider 9-11 periodic reports of Tajikistan for 2012-2015 on the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. At the same time, the…
In an intervention to the European Court of Human Rights in a case against Russia, the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) has called on the Court to explicitly rule that that the rights to freedom of expression and association include…