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The new list of banned professions for women lifts restrictions in transportation and other spheres, but leaves over 320 of the 456 bans on the existing list in place. ADC Memorial and the campaign #allJobs4AllWomen welcome the first successes for…
List of forbidden for women professions is discrimination
Svetlana Medvedeva has faced impossibility to take a practical course and thus complete education in ship navigation due to the ban of her shipping company on her performance as a motor-mechanic/helmsman. In this the company , Samara river passenger company (SRPP), has referred to “The List of hard types of work…”, which bans employing of women.
This regulation is clearly discriminatory from the human rights point. There can be no state ban on particular type of work based on sex. “The List of hard types of work” puts a ban on some professions for all women, regardless of their own will.
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In March 2018, the RF Ministry of Labor presented a draft of a new “List of Harmful and Dangerous Workplace Factors and Jobs Restricted for Women.” During the public discussion, the first version of the amended list was criticized by…
Over the last several years Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” has been campaigning to abolish the lists of professions prohibited for women in all countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia #AllJobs4AllWomen. As a result of this campaign at the end of…
18.04.2018
Bans on women’s labor persist: Russia ignores international standards and Russian court rulings
Last week the Russian Ministry of Labor published an amended draft of the list of harmful, heavy and dangerous jobs prohibited for women. Despite the fact that it proposed to replace specific professions with the list of hazardous factors of…
Samara regional court has considered the appeal of Svetlana Medvedeva and has agreed with the conclusions of the court of first instance. The appellate court has confirmed that the refusal to accept Medvedeva for the position of motorist/ helmsman back…
02.12.2017
TASS: Russian ombudsperson: the list of professions prohibited for women could be reconsidered
Moscow, December 1, 2017 /TASS/. Tatyana Moskalkova, the Russian human rights ombudsperson, believes that the list of professions prohibited for women due to the difficult working conditions involved could be revised. Currently, this list includes more than 400 professions. “This…