Bulletin № 63, October 2018

The campaign #AllJobsforAllWomen

First results of the ALL JOBS FOR ALL WOMEN campaign in Russia: Russian Ministry of Labor partially abolishes job prohibitions for women

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

Interview with Anna Kanopatskaya, a Deputy in the House of Representatives of the VI Session of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus

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

ADC Memorial presented its compilation report on discrimination against Roma in Eastern Europe and Central Asia to European Institutions and the OSCE

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

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