Theme: women’s rights

In my opinion, the draft of the Ministry of Labor order substantially narrows down the list of banned professions for women, which is the result of Svetlana Medvedeva’s case, among other things. First of all, restrictions on the use of…

Irina Solomatina, head of “Gender Route” project, interviewed Mikola Sharakh, Deputy Chairman of the Free Trade Union of Belarus, about the situation of women workers at “Polotsk-Steklovolokno” glass fiber production company. – “Polotsk-Steklovolokno” company website reports that women in the…

In March 2018, the RF Ministry of Labor presented a draft of a new “List of Harmful and Dangerous Workplace Factors and Jobs Restricted for Women.” During the public discussion, the first version of the amended list was criticized by…

Moscow 24 TV channel interviewed (in Russian) Olga Abramenko, expert of Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial”, and Svetlana Medvedeva, helmsman/motorist about reconsideration of the list of professions prohibited for women by the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection. Both interviewed are active…

The present collection “Protection from discrimination: summary of successful legal cases” (in Russian) is based on the materials of expert meetings held by Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” in 2017-2018 and reports presented by ADC “Memorial”, which include “Gender Discrimination – Jobs…

Over the last several years Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” has been campaigning to abolish the lists of professions prohibited for women in all countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia #AllJobs4AllWomen. As a result of this campaign at the end of…