The issue is devoted to the different manifestations of discriminations and the ways to combat them. News within the campaign for the abolition of the list of prohibited professions for women #AllJobs4AllWomen, pogroms of Roma settlements in Russia, persecution of LGBT people in Crimea; multiple discrimination of Roma women in Moldova, LBQ-women in Kazakhstan, women living with HIV in Central Asia.
The campaign #AllJobsforAllWomen
Curtailing of the Russian List of Professional Bans for Women: Legal Aspects Inessa Sakhno
Lawyers comment on proposed changes to the list of jobs prohibited for women
UN CEDAW urged Turkmen authorities to ensure women’s labor rights
Against discrimination
Rights of LBQ-women in Kazakhstan. Presentation of the Kazakhstan Feminist Initiative ‘Feminita’ at the side event during the OSCE HDIM, Warsaw, September 2018
New publication by ADC Memorial presented at the side event during the annual OSCE HDIM in Warsaw
Multiple discrimination of women living with HIV in Central Asia. Presentation of the Kazakhs Union of People Living with HIV at the side event during the annual OSCE HDIM in Warsaw, September 2018
Stop LGBT persecution
Stripping a gay man of his house by the sea: police torture in Crimea Inessa Sakhno
Roma rights
Roma women in the Republic of Moldova. Presentation of Cristina Raducan at the side event during the annual OSCE HDIM in Warsaw, September 2018
Pogroms of Roma settlements in Urazovo (Belgorod Province, Russia)
Tragedy in Ust-Abakan Sergey Mikheyev
Anti-discrimination advocacy news
Moldova reported on the implementation of UN CERD priority recommendations
Tajikistan informed UN CERD about implementation of its urgent recommendations
Protection of indigenous peoples of the Russian Federation from discrimination
Armenia reported on implementation of UN CERD priority recommendations
Russian authorities promissed the UN to take measures against discrimination
Protection of human rights defenders
Kyrgyzstan: ADC Memorial and Bir Duino targeted after alternative report to the UN
The report in pdf