United Nations’ Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (UN CEDAW) adopted recommendations to Kazakhstan and formed a list of issues for the Kyrgyzstan authorities during the Committee’s 74th session and 76th pre-session. After analyzing the situation with gender…
During the 65th pre-session of the United Nations’ Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (UN CESCR) its members formulated questions to the Azerbaijani authorities concerning respect for women’s rights in education and employment. UN CESCR experts asked for information…
ADC Memorial has led the fight against legal bans on the labor of women in hundreds of professions, including prestigious and high-paying ones. The campaign #alljobs4allwomen, which was launched on March 8, 2017, and the joint efforts of activists, human…
In a touching memorial to female victims of domestic violence recently unveiled in Istanbul, the Turkish artist Vahit Tuna attached 440 pairs of women’s high-heeled shoes to two walls. This is the number of women killed by their partners in…
Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” took part in a side event on “Gender Discrimination Issues in Eastern Europe and Central Asia: Inequality at Work, Domestic Violence”, which was organized together with the Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) during the OSCE Human Dimension…
Diving work still features among the jobs prohibited for women in Russia even in the new, shortened list of industries, jobs and occupations prohibited for them, which will come into effect starting 2021. Since her childhood, the heroine of this…
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