Women’s Rights

Read more about the article ECtHR hands down eleven rulings with regard to Russia finding violations of nine Convention articles, including ‘Tunikova and Others v. Russia’ on domestic violence

ECtHR hands down eleven rulings with regard to Russia finding violations of nine Convention articles, including ‘Tunikova and Others v. Russia’ on domestic violence

Week-ending 17 December 2021 This week the European Court of Human Rights handed down eleven rulings with regard to Russia finding violations of Convention Articles 2 (right to life), 3…

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Read more about the article Podcast No. 89. Simon & Sergei – with Marina Pisklakova-Parker

Podcast No. 89. Simon & Sergei – with Marina Pisklakova-Parker

This week our guest on the podcast is Marina Pisklakova-Parker. Marina Pisklakova-Parker is a Russian women's rights activist and writer. She is the founder of ANNA (Regional Organization for Assistance to Women…

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Read more about the article Quote for the Week. The last text message that the shelter received from one of the women said: “They found us, the police are at the shelter.”

Quote for the Week. The last text message that the shelter received from one of the women said: “They found us, the police are at the shelter.”

Week-ending 22 October 2021 From the website of Good Deeds On 18 October 2021 Russian police detained two women at a women's shelter, 'Mamin Dom' run by the organisation 'Good…

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Read more about the article Person of the Week: Khalimat Taramova, forcibly taken by Chechen police from a women’s shelter in Dagestan

Person of the Week: Khalimat Taramova, forcibly taken by Chechen police from a women’s shelter in Dagestan

Week-ending 18 June 2021 On 10 June Khalimat Taramova, the daughter of an associate of Chechnya’s leader Ramzan Kadyrov, was forcibly taken by police from a shelter for battered women…

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Read more about the article CSO of the Week: Nasiliu.net, a women’s rights organisation combating domestic violence designated a ‘foreign agent’ NGO

CSO of the Week: Nasiliu.net, a women’s rights organisation combating domestic violence designated a ‘foreign agent’ NGO

Week-ending 1 January 2020 On 29 December 2020 the Ministry of Justice designated the women's rights organisation Nasiliu.net, (Насилию.нет) that combats violence against women, a 'foreign agent' NGO. Nasiliu.net is…

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Read more about the article Podcast No. 49. Simon & Sergei with Irina Kosterina

Podcast No. 49. Simon & Sergei with Irina Kosterina

This week our guest on the podcast is Irina Vladimirovna Kosterina. Irina Kosterina is Programme Coordinator of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Russia, a sociologist and gender researcher, trainer and…

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