07.11.2020
Theme: women’s rights
04.11.2020
Experts speak out about the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on the situation of women in Azerbaijan During the 77th session of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), international experts were asked to assess the situation in Azerbaijan and make their recommendations to the country’s authorities. In their joint statement, the human...
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...
25.08.2020
ILO Violence and Harassment Convention: the importance of protecting particularly vulnerable women On June 25, 2021, the ILO Convention No. 190 (“Violence and Harassment Convention”), which was adopted together with Recommendation No. 206 containing practical measures for the implementation of the Convention, will enter into force. The convention was discussed for over...
01.08.2020