The word гул/gul/gül translates from the Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Tajik, Azerbaijani, and Kazakh languages as “flower.” For us, the flower is the symbol of wisdom, strength, and spiritual beauty. A flower grows in spite of everything. It overcomes barriers and makes…
Theme: women’s rights
-Six months ago, Kazakhstan shortened the list of professions banned for women and removed 68 jobs from it, but another 219 specializations remain banned. Curiously, these jobs do not match bans proposed for introduction in Russia. How do employment bans…
Interview with Marifat Davlatova, feminist artist (please do not use the female form of artist) – What is the situation with employment for women in Tajikistan? – I obviously knew that banned professions exist in Tajikistan, but I didn’t know…
I don’t know if there’s any other holiday celebrated by millions of people that combines so many seemingly incongruous ideas and meanings as March 8. As we know, it all started with female revolutionaries, socialists, and suffragists prepared for radical…
Istanbul Convention in Eastern Europe
According to the WHO, one of the most common forms of violence experience by women globally is intimate partner violence. Almost one third (30%) of women worldwide reported that they experienced such kind of violence. Any kind of violence, within…
Grégoire Théry, Co-founder and executive director of the Coalition for the Abolition of Prostitution (CAP international) How do you establish a link between prostitution and women discrimination? All over the world, and throughout History, the most discriminated and vulnerable women…