Theme: women’s rights

Side Event of the Anti-Discrimination Centre Memorial during the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in the OSCE (Warsaw) September 28, 2016, 13.15 – 14.45, Plenary Session Hall Reproductive Rights in Post-Soviet Countries: Motherhood cannot be Imposed or Restricted by the Government…

The UN Committee to Eliminate Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) has compiled a list of questions related to Armenia’s state report on the situation of women in the country, which will be considered during the Committee’s 65th Session. These questions include…

Fisker, kaptein, togfører eller feier. Dette er noen av 456 jobber som kvinner ikke får ha i Russland. Read the article

The European Court for Human Rights (ECtHR) has communicated legal appeal made by the lawyer of ADC “Memorial” Olga Tseitlina on behalf of Zhanna Lakatosz, who had been accused of beating a 1-year-old child, which had led to the baby’s…

ADC Memorial’s legal proceedings (that have lasted for more than 3 years), successfully proved that the practice of listing certain professions prohibited for women in the Russian Federation is discriminatory.  This concerns the 456 professions in 38 fields of work…

Romni in Dzerzhinsk (on the border with the so-called DNR)are trying to make a living by peeling nuts. Girls are helping their mother. Roma families from Dzerzhinsk try to earn their living by gathering nuts in the woods, peeling them…