Theme: women’s rights

March 8, 2022 comes at the most difficult moment when the Russian army launches rocket and artillery strikes on the cities of Ukraine, when millions  leave their homes, when thousands are killed and tens of thousands are wounded. In the…

The United Nations Information Service in Geneva: The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this afternoon heard from representatives of non-governmental organizations on the situation of women’s rights in Uzbekistan, Peru, Lebanon and the Dominican Republic, whose reports…

On January 31, Moldova completed the ratification of the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (Istanbul Convention). It will come into force 3 months after the ratification – at May 1, 2022….

openDemocracy: A Soviet-era law banning women from more than 200 jobs has finally been overturned in Kazakhstan. But the fight for gender parity is not over …The ban was originally established in the 1930s, when Soviet legislators argued that to…

On The International Women Human Rights Defenders Day we would like to draw special attention to the situation of women human rights defenders in Belarus. Since the spring of 2020, civil society in this country was being viciously attacked with…

The situation of women’s rights in Russia and Kyrgyzstan was evaluated at the recent 80th session of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. A number of important recommendations of the Committee to both countries relate to…