News of the campaign #AllJobs4AllWomen Kazakhstan: cancellation of the list of prohibited professions and exclusion of discriminatory articles from the Labor Code On October 12, President Tokayev signed the Law “On Amendments and Additions to Several Legal Acts of the…
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Paris, 15 February 2022. The world is holding its collective breath as President Vladimir Putin is poised to have Russia’s armed forces re-invade Ukraine, bringing Europe closer to the precipice of war. The undersigned organisations of the International Federation for…
Kazakhstan: Mass protests are stifled by violence and further suppression of fundamental rights
What began as peaceful protests against socio-economic inequality swiftly turned into violence facilitated by Kazakhstan’s internal security forces and troops of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), amounting to violations of the right to life and liberty, as well as…
Promotion of modern international standards of children’s rights: deinstitutionalization and humanization of closed institutions in Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine The issue of returning migrant children to their countries of origin is important for the entire OSCE region Migrant children need…
openDemocracy: A Soviet-era law banning women from more than 200 jobs has finally been overturned in Kazakhstan. But the fight for gender parity is not over …The ban was originally established in the 1930s, when Soviet legislators argued that to…
This year, the 14th session of the UN Forum on Minority Issues was devoted to preventing conflicts on ethnic and religious grounds. The causes and background of such incidents are the accumulated dissatisfaction of various groups of the population with…
On The International Women Human Rights Defenders Day we would like to draw special attention to the situation of women human rights defenders in Belarus. Since the spring of 2020, civil society in this country was being viciously attacked with…
Migrant children in Ukraine not be placed in reception centers of the Ministry of Interior
Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” advocates cancellation of the practice of placing migrant children into children’s reception centers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs within the framework of the #Crossborderchildhood campaign and the project “Promotion of modern international standards of children’s rights:…
“Magnolia-TV” (Ukraine): Violence and bullying. Why thousands of children have to live in orphanages
Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” continues its series of publications within the framework of the project “Promotion of modern international standards of children’s rights: deinstitutionalization and humanization of closed institutions in Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine”. This time we present a program by…