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…
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…
“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…
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…
Although the 76th session of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) was held online and face-to-face dialogue with the Kyrgyz authorities did not take place, the Committee’s experts nevertheless reviewed information provided by the representatives…
During its 78th pre-session, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) compiled lists of questions to Russian and Uzbek authorities. The members of the Committee drew special attention to the particularly vulnerable position of women during…
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