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Daily explosions, coal handling, clouds of dust, this is the everyday life of residents in a coal region. Pits spew a tremendous amount of dust into the air during the mining and its processing at coal preparation plants. This dust…

June 1 – International Children’s Day – Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” in partnership with colleagues from Moldova (“Ave Copiii”), Ukraine (“Women’s Consortium”, member of the Coalition “Children’s Rights in Ukraine”) and Belarus (“Our House”) raised the problem of observing children’s rights…

fluter. In den 1970er-Jahren wurden in der Sowjetunion so wenige Kinder geboren, dass der Staat ein Berufsverbot für Frauen aussprach. Fortan waren ihnen 456 Berufe untersagt, die als gefährlich „für die reproduktive Gesundheit“ galten. Heißt: Frauen sollten nicht körperlich arbeiten, sondern gebären und erziehen. (Also auch…

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Russia has enshrined discrimination against LGBTI+ people in the law in the form of a ban on “the promotion of non-traditional relationships between minors,” which effectively places restrictions on any serious conversation about sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI), on…