last updated March 12, 2005
2004 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Russia, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, U.S. Department of State, 28 February 2005.
Section 5 of the report contains a paragraph on the status of women in Russia, and a subsection on trafficking.
Violence Against Women in Russia, A Report to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. World Organisation Against Torture, 7 July 2004. (PDF, 42 pages).
The report highlights the fact that despite differences of social, cultural and political contexts, patterns and frequency of violence against women span both national and socio-economic borders as well as cultural identities. The lack of effective legislation on violence against women, inequality in society’s gender roles, and government laxity on punishing perpetrators of violence are all factors contributing to the continuing and occurrence of violence against women.
Human Rights in the OSCE Region: Europe, Central Asia and North America, Report 2004 (Events of 2004), International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights, 23 June 2004. (PDF, 19 pages).
This report discusses general human rights and discrimination of minorities.
Social Advocates Training Manual: Experiences and Methodological Recommendations, The American Bar Association Central and European and Eurasian Law Initiative (ABA CEELI), 2004. (PDF 152 pages), (in Russian with the introduction translated into English).
The manual contains a basic introduction to the program, templates to each of the core subjects taught to the Social Advocates, written by the trainers, as well as sample materials referred to in the text. It is intended as a guide to those who wish to learn more about CEELI's Social Advocates program and to as a tool to adapt the program to their own needs.
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Russia, U.S. Department of State, 2003.
This report outlines the Russian legal framework for human rights. It also describes reports of human rights violations against individuals (mainly associated with Chechnya and Dagestan), civil rights violations, (such as restrictions placed on press freedom), political restrictions, and workers’ rights. Section five includes a summary of the current situation of gender-based discrimination and ethnic minority and indigenous rights. Section six details the problem of human trafficking in Russia.
2002 Report of the Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, Cultural Practices in the Family that Are Violence Towards Women. Developments in the area of violence against women (1994-2002), 6 January 2003. (available in PDF and Word, 24 pages).
Special Rapporteur Radhika Coomaraswamy's final report to the Commission on Human Rights "focuses on developments at the international, regional and national levels aimed at eliminating violence against women since 1994 when the mandate of the Special Rapporteur was created." Paragraph 2. Paragraphs twenty-six through thirty-six discuss domestic violence.
The addendum to the 2002 Report contains country information on Republic of Moldova, the Russian Federation, and Uzbekistan. (available in PDF and Word, 41 pages).
Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation: The case of the Russian Federation, Hughes, Donna M., International Organization for Migration, Migration Research Series, 2002 (PDF).
This report analyzes conditions for women in Russia that enable trafficking to flourish, including high rates of poverty and violence against women, as well as the prevalence of organized crime networks. It also describes different types of victims, destination countries, and Russian trafficking legislation.
A Form of Slavery: Trafficking in Women in OSCE Member States, International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights, 2000.
This report describes the situation and legal framework of discrimination and violence against women, including domestic violence, sexual abuse, sexual exploitation and trafficking. Page 55 offers a brief summary of trafficking in Russia. It should be noted that since publication of this report, the Russian Criminal Code has been updated in an attempt to prosecute trafficking offenders more effectively.
Women 2000: an Investigation into the Status of Women’s Rights in Central and South-Eastern Europe and the NIS, International Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, 2000.
This report summarizes legal protections against discrimination for women in Russia and compares these rights to the de facto situation for women in terms of employment, education, property, family, healthcare and political representation. The report also offers information about domestic violence, sexual abuse, prostitution, trafficking, and unique problems for ethnic minority women and women involved in armed conflicts.
Trafficking in Women for the Purpose of Sexual Exploitation: Mapping the Situation and Existing Organizations Working in Belarus, Russia and Baltic and Nordic States. Forum/Stiftelsen Kvinnoforum, Stockholm, August 1998.
This report documents the problem of trafficking in women but also includes a survey of NGO activities on this issue as well as strategies for future actions. It contains information about conditions in Russia that enable trafficking to flourish, and it describes the status of Russian women who were trafficked to Northern Europe.
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