Theme: women’s rights

In November 2023, the human rights situation in Russia will be evaluated at the 44th session of the Universal Periodic Review, a special UN mechanism. During the prevous cycle of the UPR (2018), Russia was criticized for homophobic legislation and…

Joint Submission of the Anti-Discrimination Center “Memorial”, Russian LGBT Network, DELO LGBT+, and Side by Side International LGBT Film Festival to the Human Rights Council at the 44th Session of the Universal Periodic Review (Fourth cycle, November 2023) Russian Federation….

The #AllJobs4AllWomen campaign officially launched on March 8, 2017. The goal of the campaign was to achieve the abolition of the lists of prohibited types of work and professions for women in all countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia…

For the past year, ADC Memorial has been monitoring the many violations of the rights of people belonging to groups vulnerable to discrimination in war situations. The military aggression of Putin’s regime caused tremendous suffering to all inhabitants of Ukraine…

Garant.ru, the legal information portal, has published a comprehensive article, “Women’s Labor Rights: Discrimination and Key Court Cases.” The article delves into the major issues of discrimination against women in the workplace and provides a thorough analysis of significant court…

OSCE General Secretary Helga Schmid said in an interview with Die Welt that after the start of the war between Russia and Ukraine, the number of cases of human trafficking in Europe has increased dramatically. The risk of Ukrainian women…