Feedback Side Event of the Anti-Discrimination Centre Memorial during the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in the OSCE (Warsaw) September 28, 2016, 13.15 – 14.45, Plenary Session Hall Reproductive Rights in Post-Soviet Countries: Motherhood cannot be Imposed or Restricted by the Government…
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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ADC Memorial’s legal proceedings (that have lasted for more than 3 years), successfully proved that the practice of listing certain professions prohibited for women in the Russian Federation is discriminatory. This concerns the 456 professions in 38 fields of work…
On October 27, 2015 the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women will consider official report of the Russian Federation and several alternative reports provided by human rights organizations. Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial”, among others, will present its report…
In June 2012 ADC “Memorial” was approached by Svetlana Medvedeva, who 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….