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Daher dürfen in Russland nur Männer arbeiten, wo es laut und dunkel ist. Doch jetzt hat eine Russin das Recht erkämpft, Kapitänin zu werden – und die Berufsverbote wanken. Von Frank Nienhuysen “Diese Berufsverbote wurzeln in Stereotypen, die Frauen in…

In Russia, It’s a Woman’s Job to Challenge Soviet-Era Labor Laws. It took Svetlana Medvedeva five years to fight for her right to become a captain After being rejected by the shipping company, Medvedeva immediately contested the decision with little…

The Independent: The state deems them to be too ‘dangerous’ or ‘harmful’ to their reproductive health

St. Petersburg city court has upheld an earlier court decision and refused to open a criminal investigation into the death of a 5-month-old Tajik baby Umarali Nazarov, who had died in a hospital where he had been sent from a…

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) started to consider 9-11 periodic reports of Tajikistan for 2012-2015 on the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. At the same time, the…

Seeking asylum and obtaining refugee status in Russia is notoriously difficult, and the country is often criticized by rights defenders for not doing enough. Even though Russia adopted the UN mandate on refugees, which means it is duty-bound to accept them, a…