Governments across Eastern Europe and Central Asia are increasingly promoting ‘traditional values’ and equating the protection of gender equality and women’s rights with...
Tag - Women’s Rights
As women’s rights suffer in Afghanistan, we should look to other countries in the region for inspiration. From the Taliban reneging on a promise to provide education to...
Falling birth rates are not an existential crisis for Central and Eastern Europe, but an opportunity
Central and Eastern Europe’s demographic decline has until now been presented by nationalist governments as an existential problem. But are policy makers looking at the...
Most countries in Central and Eastern Europe continue to trail the rest of the European Union on gender equality, with Covid-19 threatening to make the situation worse...
A near-total ban on abortion in Poland has led to an increase in the number of Poles heading across the border to Ukraine. For several years, private abortion clinics in...
The long-overdue criminalisation of domestic violence in 2017 was a major step in the right direction for Ukraine. Progress since then however has been limited. Ukraine...
Ukraine has emerged as a key player in a niche but growing global market – commercial surrogacy. While the procedure has been of enormous financial benefit to many...
A long campaign by Roma women in Czechia who were forcibly sterilised appears to be finally coming to a successful conclusion. The lower house of the Czech parliament...
Ten years after of the landmark declaration of the Council of Europe’s Istanbul Convention on women’s rights, a significant number of countries in Central and...
While Serbia tends to rank well on intentional indexes of gender equality, violence against women, including sexual violence, remains a serious problem. Serbia has been...
Latvia is the only country in emerging Europe with a perfect score in the World Bank’s latest Women, Business and the Law 2021 report. Countries are inching toward...
A new wave of protests sweeps Poland as the country’s strict new abortion laws come into effect. Human rights groups have condemned new laws in Poland which...
