Theme: women’s rights

07.11.2020

Submission on ethnic minorities, women’s and children’s rights and LGBTI ahead the Human Rights Dialogue between the EU and Kazakhstan

In the present submission Anti-Discrimination Centre Memorial provides information on the situation of ethnic minorities in Kazakhstan, the situation of vulnerable groups – women, children and migrants – during COVID-19 pandemic, and wide-spread homophobia and lack of protection by state....
20.10.2020

Belarus plans to abolish bans on profession for women

Irina Kostevich, Belarusian Minister of Labor and Social Protection, has announced the government’s plans to abolish the list of professional occupations prohibited for women, which currently includes 181 professional occupations and 42 spheres of work. In her opinion, modern technologies...
17.09.2020

The Power of Equality

“Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya was the first woman to be elected president in Eastern Europe.” This is what I hope I will soon read on Wikipedia. But, more importantly, I would like to read that the “women’s protests” changed Belarusian society and...