Russian Federation: The lack of the National Machinery 5/7

There are other major obstacles in establishing a comprehensive response system to violence against women in Russia. One of them is that currently in the Russian Federation there is no National Machinery that would correspond to the definition of the Beijing Platform of Action. Although in 2010 as a result of the CEDAW recommendations to the State Report the Russian government established an inter-agency...

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Russian Federation: Civil society 4/7

The problems the Civil Society in the Russian Federation is currently facing could be defined as the following challenges: General public does not have a clear understanding of a role of the civil society organizations and therefore does not support civil society organizations (CSO). This understanding of civil society and CSOs on the part of average citizens and the authorities can relate to their...

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Lila Abu-Lughod

Lila Abu-Lughod is the Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University, and Professor of Anthropology and Women’s and Gender Studies. Her courses focus on gender politics and nationalism in the Muslim world and on liberalism, culture, and the politics of human and women’s rights. A leading voice in debates about gender, Islam, and global policy, her books and publications have...

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Russian Federation: Gender stereotypes and raise of patriarchal values 3/7

Spreading gender stereotypes is another significant obstacle in combating violence against women in Russia. In the last five years there is an increasing renaissance of what is called “traditional values”. The problem is that it is defined based on old cultural views on women’s roles in a family and in the society. However, despite the activities recently launched by progressive forces of the Russian...

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Japan :Paternity Leave harassment

  By law, fathers can get 6 months paternity leave on almost full pay, but they face such abuse and harassment from bosses and fellow workers, hardly anyone claims this right. See the reasons how this has happened.  Rupert Wingfield-Hayes reports....

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Release Narges Mohammadi. #‎TakeAction

Join Amnesty International and ‪#‎TakeAction‬ for the release of Iranian human rights defender and prisoner of conscience, Narges Mohammadi. Narges' court hearing has been scheduled for April 20. She has been denied contact with her children for over eight months, and she is critically ill. Call on Iranian authorities to release Narges immediately URGENT ACTION (AU 105/15) APRIL 4, 2016 Iranian...

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Russian Federation: DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 2/7

Since the adoption of amendments to the Penal Code of the Russian Federation in 2003, there has been a significant change in examining cases of domestic violence. Most of them have fallen into the category of private prosecution cases (Article 115, 116. Part1, Article 129 and Article 130 of the Penal Code of the Russian Federation). From the perspective of legislators, this is justified on the basis that...

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Russian Federation: DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 1/7

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE* According to CEDAW, the Russian Federation is obliged to take all appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination against women by any person, organization or enterprise (article 2 (e)) and to take all appropriate measures, including legislation, to modify or abolish existing laws, regulations, customs and practices which constitute discrimination against women (article 2 (f)). The...

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Domestic violence legislation in Bangladesh.

English Version of the Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Act, 2010 An Act to provide as a signatory state of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 1979 and the Convention on the Children’s Right, 1989 and to establish equal rights for women and children guaranteed in the Constitution of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh prevention...

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