{"id":22681,"date":"2021-03-31T16:45:25","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T13:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/?p=22681"},"modified":"2021-04-01T21:27:35","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T18:27:35","slug":"the-struggle-to-abolish-professional-prohibitions-for-women-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/news\/the-struggle-to-abolish-professional-prohibitions-for-women-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"The struggle to abolish professional prohibitions for women continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span lang=\"en-US\">March being the month of visibility of women\u2019s struggles for equal rights, we present here some news on how women continue their battles against labor restrictions in Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Belarus.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h5><strong><span lang=\"en-US\">Russian Federation<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">In Russia, starting January 1, 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/news\/female-transportation-workers-get-the-green-light-but-female-firefighters-and-coal-miners-must-press-on-in-the-fight-for-labor-rights\/\">a shortened list<\/a> of professional occupations prohibited for women was introduced. Revision of the list had been facilitated through the cooperation of various human rights defenders with trade unions and the media. However, this largely is the merit of the women themselves, the heroines of the <a href=\"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/all-jobs4all-women?lang=en\"><em>#AlJjobs4AllWomen<\/em><\/a> campaign, who had actively advocated giving them the right to work in their chosen professional occupations. Employment opportunities for women in the transportation sector in Russia have been significantly expanded this year: first women drivers of subway and electric trains have already started their work, while more and more women drive trucks now and work on maritime and riverine vessels. But not all professional occupations are yet available to women. It is necessary to abolish the prohibitions that continue until now, and the work for this purpose continues. In early March, Inna Svyatenko, head of the Federation Council\u2019s (upper house of Russian parliament) Committee on Social Policy, sent <a href=\"https:\/\/iz.ru\/1135981\/liubov-lezhneva\/bez-strakhov-i-uprekov-zhenshchinam-mogut-razreshit-remontirovat-samolety\">an appeal<\/a> to the Ministry of Labor requesting a further revision of the list of professional occupations prohibited for women and expansion of the list of permitted types of work for women in civil aviation. On March 24, 2021, Deputy Labor Minister Andrey Pudov <a href=\"http:\/\/www.finmarket.ru\/news\/5435723\">announced<\/a> that the government was preparing a decree on the admission of women to work as aeronautical technicians and the possibility of further reducing the list of prohibited professional occupations (in case of positive results of a special assessment of labor conditions at the workplace).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"#AllJobs4AllWomen: \u043a\u0430\u043c\u043f\u0430\u043d\u0438\u044f \u0437\u0430 \u043e\u0442\u043c\u0435\u043d\u0443 \u0437\u0430\u043f\u0440\u0435\u0449\u0435\u043d\u043d\u044b\u0445 \u0434\u043b\u044f \u0436\u0435\u043d\u0449\u0438\u043d \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0444\u0435\u0441\u0441\u0438\u0439\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UR6i75v0ZvM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h5><span lang=\"en-US\">Belarus<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Belarusian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eeprava.by\">\u201cHer Rights\u201d<\/a> Centre for the Promotion of Women\u2019s Rights continues its struggle to abolish the list of professional occupations prohibited for women in Belarus. Earlier the Centre prepared joint report <a href=\"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/BelENGwww.pdf\">\u201cDiscrimination against w<\/a><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/BelENGwww.pdf\">omen in the employment sphere in Belarus&#8221;<\/a><span lang=\"en-US\"> in cooperation with the ADC Memorial for the United Nations\u2019 Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (UN CEDAW). \u201dHer Rights\u201d Centre currently is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eeprava.by\/2021\/02\/%d1%80%d0%be%d0%bc%d0%b0%d0%bd-%d0%b2-%d0%bf%d0%b8%d1%81%d1%8c%d0%bc%d0%b0%d1%85-%d0%ba%d0%b0%d0%ba-%d1%86%d0%b5%d0%bd%d1%82%d1%80-%d0%b5%d0%b5-%d0%bf%d1%80%d0%b0%d0%b2%d0%b0-%d0%b2%d0%b5\/\">in correspondence<\/a> with the state bodies of the Republic of Belarus concerning the possibility of canceling the list of professional prohibitions for women. In October 2020, Irina Kostevich, Belarusian Minister of Labor and Social Protection, <a href=\"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/news\/belarus-plans-to-abolish-bans-on-profession-for-women\/\">announced<\/a> the country\u2019s plans to cancel this list, but so far there no changes have been introduced into the national labor legislation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Throughout February 2021, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eeprava.by\/2021\/02\/%d0%bf%d1%80%d0%be%d1%88%d0%bb%d0%be%d0%b5-%d0%bd%d0%b0%d1%81%d1%82%d0%be%d1%8f%d1%89%d0%b5%d0%b5-%d0%b8-%d0%b8%d0%b4%d0%b5%d0%b0%d0%bb%d1%8c%d0%bd%d0%be%d0%b5-%d0%b1%d1%83%d0%b4%d1%83%d1%89%d0%b5\/\">\u201cHer Rights\u201d<\/a> Centre held discussions on women\u2019s labor rights and organized meetings with experts and female workers in the professional fields, where women rarely work.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span lang=\"en-US\">The Centre believes that \u201cthrough advocating the abolition of the list of professional occupations prohibited for women, we advocate better jobs and improved working conditions for all people, regardless of gender. Work should be safe for everyone, not just women. It is important to improve working conditions to the better level of safety for all people in all sectors. This process can last for years, but it can only begin when the protection of the health of all citizens becomes a priority for the state\u201d.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/botz.belarus\/\">Belarusian Organization of Working Women<\/a> currently carries out its information campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/181campaign.gender-route.org\/\">\u201cAll jobs for all women in Belarus\u201d<\/a> (as part of the #AlJjobs4AllWomen international campaign) in order to push for abolition the list of jobs and professional occupations prohibited for women in this country.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span lang=\"en-US\">Kyrgyzstan<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Human rights movement <a href=\"http:\/\/birduino.kg\/\">\u201cBir Duino Kyrgyzstan\u201d<\/a> seeks to abolish the existing discriminatory bans on women\u2019s work in Kyrgyzstan. ADC Memorial in collaboration with the experts of this organization has submitted reports to the Committees of the UN Human Rights Council on numerous occasions, while the two organizations have also provided for national advocacy on the abolition of gender bans in the labor sphere. On March 3, 2021, \u201cBir Duino Kyrgyzstan\u201d sent and published an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birduino.kg\/en\/press\/public-call-from-bir-buino-kyrgyzstan-to-maripov-u.a.,-prime-minister-of-the-kr\">public call<\/a> to the new government of the Kyrgyz Republic, its Prime Minister Mr. U. Maripov, concerning the \u201cPlan of Priority Government Measures for 100 Days\u201d, which also mentioned the need to cancel the list of professional occupations prohibited for women: \u201cWe ask you to pay attention to inequality in labor and the importance of supporting the partnership of government and business with independent trade unions in order to protect the rights of workers both in the Kyrgyz Republic and abroad. It is important to urgently cancel the list of professional occupations prohibited for women and provide equal access to jobs through the governmental resolution of the Kyrgyz Republic, as there still exists open discrimination and humiliation of women\u2019s rights\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">On March 5, 2021, during <a href=\"https:\/\/labourcentralasia.ru\/ru\/news\/onlayn-konferentsiya-borba-protiv-gendernoy-diskriminatsiya-i-nasiliya\/\">the online conference<\/a> \u201cThe Right to Work: Combating Gender Discrimination and Violence\u201d on the platform of the International monitoring mission on labor rights in Central Asia, BDK again stressed the need to abolish the list of professions prohibited for women in Kyrgyzstan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Kyrgyzstan\u2019s Public Foundation \u201cInsan Leilek\u201d also joined in, carrying out its <a href=\"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/novosti\/tvoya-professiya-tvoj-vybor-informaczionnaya-kampaniya-v-kyrgyzstane\/\">information campaign<\/a> against gender discrimination in the professional sphere \u201cYour profession is your choice\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><a name=\"_GoBack\"><\/a><span lang=\"en-US\">Kazakhstan<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">During the 43rd United Nations\u2019 Session one year ago the official delegation of Kazakhstan supported the UN recommendations to abolish the list of professional occupations prohibited for women. In early August 2020, Elvira Azimova, the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Republic of Kazakhstan, sent an official letter to the President of the Kazakhstan Mr. Tokayev with a proposal to exclude from the Labor Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan the legal norm on restricting female labor in heavy, harmful and hazardous types of work, while at the same time expanding the list of medical counter-indications for both men and women working in hazardous working conditions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Kazakhstan\u2019s feminist initiative <a href=\"https:\/\/feminita.kz\/\">\u201cFeminita\u201d<\/a> continues to carry out advocacy and information<a href=\"https:\/\/feminita.kz\/2020\/03\/banned-list\/\"> work<\/a> for the abolition of the list of professional occupations prohibited for women, as the latter restricts professional choice of women in the country. Earlier \u201cFeminita\u201d together with ADC \u201cMemorial\u201d have raised the problem of discriminatory bans in Kazakhstan in a <a href=\"https:\/\/tbinternet.ohchr.org\/Treaties\/CEDAW\/Shared%20Documents\/KAZ\/INT_CEDAW_ICO_KAZ_34056_E.pdf\">joint report<\/a> to the UN CEDAW session. While demonstrating the vulnerability and economic insecurity of women in Kazakhstan during the <a href=\"https:\/\/feminita.kz\/2020\/04\/covid-19-list-of-banned-jobs\/\">Covid-19 pandemic<\/a>, \u201cFeminita\u201d showed with arguments that by denying women the choice of a profession, the latter were not given equal opportunities to survive the global crisis with minimal losses for themselves.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March being the month of visibility of women\u2019s struggles for equal rights, we present here some news on how women continue their battles against labor restrictions in Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Belarus. 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