Theme: women’s rights

Specially for the campaign #AllJobs4allWomen a woman, who had been fired from a printing shop following the change of sex and the change of information on sex in her passport from “male” to “female”, told her story of discrimination. Her…

The Ukrainian Health Ministry has abolished its order #256 banning women from being employed in 450 professions which were considered damaging to women’s health, Ukrainian MP Iryna Suslova wrote on her fb page. Suslova was one of the politicians engaged…

The Dzerzhinsky district court of St. Petersburg, after considering the legal appeal made by a lawyer who cooperated with ADC “Memorial”, on behalf of Mrs. U., an Uzbek citizen, ruled on November 22, 2017 to release her from the temporary…

The problem of professions prohibited for women and the campaign “All jobs for all women” was discussed on December 2, 2017 during a meeting with Ksenia Sobchak, a candidate in the upcoming Russian presidential elections of 2018. Lawyers Dmitry Bartenev…

On September 15, 2017, the Samara District Court completed its review of the case of Svetlana Medvedeva v. the Samara River Passenger Enterprise. The court found that the internationally-recognized ban on discrimination against women means that women cannot be denied…

Moscow, December 1, 2017 /TASS/. Tatyana Moskalkova, the Russian human rights ombudsperson, believes that the list of professions prohibited for women due to the difficult working conditions involved could be revised. Currently, this list includes more than 400 professions. “This…