last updated 14 January 2009

GENDER EQUALITY

• Constitution of the Russian Federation (Russian)
• Labor Code of the Russian Federation (Russian)
• Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (Russian)
• Criminal Procedural Code of the Russian Federation (Russian)
• Decree No. 761 on The Year of the Family in the Russian Federation (Russian), President of the Russian Federation, 14 June 2007
• Resolution No. 480-15 on The Incorporation of Gender Studies into University Education (Russian), Ministry of Education and Science, 22 April 2003
• Conception of gender policy of the Federation of independent trade unions of Russia, 2002 (Russian)
• Conception of legislative activities aimed at securing of equal rights and equal opportunities for men and women, 1997 (Russian full text)
• Decree No. 337 on Priority Tasks of the State policy with regard to women, 1993

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

• Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, Articles 111-115, 116 (Russian)
• Criminal Procedural Code of the Russian Federation (Russian)
• Family Code of the Russian Federation (Russian)
• Approximate regulations about crisis center for women's support, Ministry of Labor and Social Development of Russian Federation (now called the Ministry of Public Health and Social Protection), 1997 (Russian)

SEXUAL ASSAULT

• Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, Articles 131, 132 (Russian)
• Criminal Procedural Code of the Russian Federation (Russian)

SEXUAL HARASSMENT

• Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, Article 133 (Russian)
• Criminal Procedural Code of the Russian Federation (Russian)

TRAFFICKING IN WOMEN

• Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, Articles 127, 127.1, 240-242 (Russian)
• Criminal Procedural Code of the Russian Federation (Russian)
• Draft Federal law against Trafficking in Persons and Measures to Protect Victims of Trafficking (go to “Others,” select “Draft Federal Law on Countering Trafficking in Persons (18 March 2003)”) (Russian)

NATIONAL PLAN OF ACTION

• Concept for the Improvement of the Status of Women in the Russian Federation
• Reply to the Questionnaire of the U.N. Secretariat on the Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action Adopted by the Fourth World Conference on the Status of Women (Beijing, 1995), and the Final Documents of the 23rd Session of the U.N. General Assembly, 2000 (pdf, 24 pages) (Russian)
• Reply to the 1998 Questionnaire on the Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action, 1999, Department of Women, Family and Children of the Ministry of Labor and the State Statistical Committee (pdf, 21 pages)