In a touching memorial to female victims of domestic violence recently unveiled in Istanbul, the Turkish artist Vahit Tuna attached 440 pairs of women’s high-heeled shoes to two walls. This is the number of women killed by their partners in…
Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” took part in a side event on “Gender Discrimination Issues in Eastern Europe and Central Asia: Inequality at Work, Domestic Violence”, which was organized together with the Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) during the OSCE Human Dimension…
Diving work still features among the jobs prohibited for women in Russia even in the new, shortened list of industries, jobs and occupations prohibited for them, which will come into effect starting 2021. Since her childhood, the heroine of this…
Diving work still features among the jobs prohibited for women in Russia even in the new, shortened list of industries, jobs and occupations prohibited for them, which will come into effect starting 2021. Since her childhood, the heroine of this…
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…
During its 126th session, the UN Human Rights Committee (UN HRC) formulated a list of questions to assess the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights by Uzbekistan. Members of the UN HRC requested to report on…
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