{"id":38704,"date":"2026-09-13T20:41:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T17:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/?p=38704"},"modified":"2026-09-14T20:53:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T17:53:18","slug":"the-window-on-eurasia-moscows-policies-disproportionately-hurting-women-in-indigenous-communities-four-human-rights-organizations-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/news\/publications-about-us\/the-window-on-eurasia-moscows-policies-disproportionately-hurting-women-in-indigenous-communities-four-human-rights-organizations-say\/","title":{"rendered":"The Window on Eurasia: Moscow\u2019s Policies Disproportionately Hurting Women in Indigenous Communities, Four Human Rights Organizations Say"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Staunton, Sept. 10 \u2013 Four human rights organizations have submitted a report on the impact of Russian policies on women in the indigenous peoples of the Russian north and far east for consideration by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women at its October meeting next month.<\/p>\n

The four \u2013 the International Committee of the Indigenous Peoples of Russia, the Memorial Anti-Discrimination Center, the Institute of Ecology and Anthropology and the North Women organization \u2013 say Moscow\u2019s policies are disproportionately hurting women in these communities (indigenous-russia.com\/archives\/50079<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The report says that since the last UN report on Russia\u2019s indigenous peoples in 2021, their situation and especially that of women among hem has been \u201cdramatically\u201d worsened, with persecution of activists, weakening of indigenous institutions, the impact of the war in Ukraine, and the government\u2019s decision not to publish necessary data.<\/p>\n

Nine of the 17 northern activists arrested last December were women. Many remain behind bars while others have been forced to flee abroad, the report says. The mobilization of men for the war has imposed increasing burdens on women in these communities that the Russian government has done little or nothing to help.<\/p>\n

Business activity in the north has increased and with ever less attention to its impact on the population. Because women are now forced to bear an even heavier burden given the departure of men for the Russian army, they and their children are increasingly suffering.<\/p>\n

The report calls on the UN body to ask ten questions of the Russian authorities in the hopes that such queries will force Moscow to change course and address the specific problems women in its indigenous peoples increasingly face. But such hopes are likely misplaced: Russia did nothing after the UN body raised some of these points earlier.<\/p>\n

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