Theme: women’s rights

A group of women workers in transportation and printing sectors has sent an open letter to the Russian Human Rights Ombudsperson Tatyana Moskalkova, calling on her to facilitate abolition of the list of professions banned for women since it discriminated…

The Anti-Discrimination Centre « Memorial » and the Centre for Social and Gender Research attended the pre-session where several Ukrainian NGOs addressed their recommendations to National Permanent missions to the United Nations Office in view of the upcoming 28th Session of the…

Daher dürfen in Russland nur Männer arbeiten, wo es laut und dunkel ist. Doch jetzt hat eine Russin das Recht erkämpft, Kapitänin zu werden – und die Berufsverbote wanken. Von Frank Nienhuysen “Diese Berufsverbote wurzeln in Stereotypen, die Frauen in…

Geneva, 26 September 2017. The UN Committee on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights observed the report of the Russian Federation. In the alternative report of ADC Memorial (with the participation of CrimeaSOS and the NGO “Revival of Kazas and Shor…

Alternative Report on the Russian Federation’s Implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Connection with the Consideration of the Sixth Periodic State Report (2016) by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. For…

The problem of the existence of the lists of professions prohibited to women is relevant for a whole region, which consists of ten countries, where women are currently denied access to hundreds of professional occupations because of discriminatory legislative prohibitions…