Following the consideration of the 5th state report of Turkmenistan on the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the United Nations’ Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) has adopted…
Theme: women’s rights
181 professions are on the government’s list of jobs that still can’t be occupied by women, a research by Her Rights initiative said. Women cannot work as rescue divers, carpenters, intercity bus drivers, or tanners. Such lists are still in…
Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” presents a new video, whose heroine is a female mineworker Alla Latner from Ukraine. She stands for the abolition of the prohibition of underground work for women and for the need to preserve protective measures and improve…
Female mineworker Alla Latner
In December 2017 Ukraine abolished the list of professions prohibited for women, but the prohibition of underground work for them is still in force. The example of Alla Latner shows very convincingly that women worked and continue to work underground…
On March 6, 2018 the European Parliament held hearings on “The right to work without gender discrimination: All Jobs for All Women”. Moderator: MEP Clare MOODY, Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Delegation to the EU-Armenia and EU-Azerbaijan Parliamentary…
In line with EU policy of consulting civil society ahead of the event, ADC “Memorial” contributed to the 11th EU and Georgia annual Human Rights Dialogue that took place in Brussels on 25 April 2018 in presence of the EU…