11.07.14 Roundtable "Women's Rights in Russia and abroad" held in Moscow

As a press-service of Association of Russian Lawyers for Human Rights reported, roundtable "Women's Rights in Russia and abroad" held in Moscow July 10, 2014 in press center “Moskovsky Komsomolets”.

Chairwomen of Association of Russian Lawyers for Human Rights, Russian Top-Lawyer Maria Bast invited the experts for the discussion “Women's Rights in Russia and abroad".
The roundtable gathered the representatives of different women’s movies and human rights defenders, assistants of MP of the Russian State Duma, representatives of the Council of Europe in Russia.
Maria Bast opened the discussion and proposed all to express their position on women's rights in Russia: respect and observance of women’s rights in Russia, the problem of idealization of the situation with women’s rights in EU, the critical attitude to the information from EU.

on the photo: Maria Bast, July 10 2014
Maria Bast stressed, that Russia was the locomotive at the beginning of the XX century for women’s rights in the world. As Maria Bast said, that Great October Revolution of 1917 brought women rights, women become the subjects of law, women got the right to vote. The achievements of Soviet Women triggered a wave of feminism around the world.

on the photo: Svetlana Gannushkina

First speaker Svetlana Gannushkina opened the discussion and stressed, that she is not a feminist, and she thinks, that women’s rights are human rights. Also she said, that we may see the tendency, that women give themselves the right, for example, a lot of women want to be the wives of wealthy husbands, stay home and raise children. Svetlana Gannushkina also noted the problem of the so-called revival of traditions in Caucasian families, and gave examples, when the state can not protect women.

on the photo:Eugenia Rosinskaya, Deputy Head of the Office of the Council of Europe Program in the Russian Federation

on the photo: Anastasia Shadarova

According to Eugenia Rosinskaya, Deputy Head of the Office of the Council of Europe Program in the Russian Federation and Anastasia Shadarovoy, national (Russia) Joint Project Coordinator of the Council of Europe and the European Union "Strengthening the capacity of lawyers and human rights defenders on the application of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and the European Social Charter (Revised) at the national level, " they noted the effectiveness of appeals to the European court of Human Rights on violations of Article 14 of the European Convention, which prohibits the discrimination. But the participants of the discussion stressed, that European Court of Human Rights does not recognize the violation of Article 14 of the European Convention, the participants said, that they will strive the getting of the precedents under Art.14.

on the photo: Maria Butina, chairman of the organization ‘Right to arms’

Maria Butina, chairman of the organization ‘Right to arms’ stressed the low activity of women in the struggle for their rights. She focused on the absence of a woman's ability to be socially active and economically free, when women born a child and forced to stay at home with child because t Russia does not have a nursery. The question of surrogacy as a choice of couples, caused the The speaker also addressed the issue of military service.

on the photo: Christina Kudryashova and Razifa Kudryashova, victims of discrimination

Christina Kudryashova said, that she and her mother are victims of discrimination and they filed a complaint to the Investigative Committee. Also Christina said, that her mother and father were married for almost 30 years, and no one in the family has occurred, that father has a second family. After the divorce process and the division of property Razifa Kudryashova lost the property.

on the photo:Maria Smirnova, senior adviser of the Fund of supporting and protection rights of compatriots living abroad

According to Maria Smirnova, senior adviser of the Fund of supporting and protection rights of compatriots living abroad, the activis of the Fund trying to work on the prevention of violations of women's rights abroad, and one of the ways to help them is the release of special brochures with the information about the specific of the legislation of countries where women going to live with their foreign husbands.

on the photo: Tatyana Kahidze, assistant of the MP of Russian State Duma

Tatyana Kahidze, assistant of the MP of Russian State Duma, she noted the low participation of women in political life, and in her opinion, women must go into politics.

on the photo: Project Manager "MOTHER OF MOSCOW" Kristina Simonyan

Project Manager "MOTHER OF MOSCOW" Kristina Simonyan, drew attention to the social and economic challenges that await a woman after the birth of the child.

on the photo: Olga Gryaznova
Olga Gryaznova said, that there is no gender in Russian army, but only special norms and standards, and military service under the contract is available to an every woman who would like to be a Navy.

on the photo: head of Russian Transhumanist movement Valeria Pride

Completed a round table on "Women's Rights in Russia and abroad," the head of Russian Transhumanist movement Valeria Pride, drew attention to the fact that for the resolution of many problems, including women's rights, there are many technical possibilities.

Summing up the results of the round table "Women's Rights in Russia and abroad," Maria Bast noted that at the end of the event, the participants will have a working group on women's rights, but also stressed that there is a problem of non-fulfillment of the legislation, and it is necessary to enforce. The lawyer stressed that even criminalize discrimination, in practice there are problems with the implementation of legislation. Also, according to Maria Bast, Russia need to ratify the Convention, and to enact appropriate legislation that would guarantee the rights of woman and protected from discrimination, domestic violence and the situations, where they need the protection of the state.
According to Maria Bast, the working group will work together with Russian lawmakers.
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