Thousands of women around the world suffer from violations of their rights, discrimination, and violence in particular. Unfortunately, Crimea is not an exception.<\/p>\n
After the occupation of Crimea by Russia in 2014, hundreds of activists were repressed for their civic position. At first, it was only men. However, the Russian authorities did not stop and began to restrict the rights of the female half of the peninsula’s population.<\/p>\n
The most vulnerable group is the wives of political prisoners in Crimea. As a rule, they are religious, not very well off, and have large families. After the detention of the sole breadwinner, the responsibility for family maintenance falls on women. In this regard, they cannot pay enough attention to raising children and are deprived of the opportunity for full self-realization in society.<\/p>\n
It is the wives and mothers of political prisoners who go on single pickets and come to court buildings to support their loved ones. For this, the occupiers detain, issue warnings and fine them.<\/p>\n
The CTRC systematically informs about violations of women’s rights in the occupied Crimea and provides this information to the general public both in Ukraine and abroad.<\/p>\n
A negative trend is the persecution of Crimean activists in criminal and administrative cases. Women are systematically subjected to repression and even cases of murder and disappearance have been recorded.<\/p>\n
Since 2014, we have recorded:<\/p>\n
2 arrests in absentia:<\/p>\n
1 criminal prosecution:<\/p>\n
12 criminal charges:<\/p>\n
We see that women in Crimea are subjected to violation of their rights and psychological violence by the occupation authorities.<\/p>\n
We demand that Russia fulfill its international obligations, stop discrimination and violence against women and the illegal persecution of all residents of Crimea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Thousands of women around the world suffer from violations of their rights, discrimination, and violence in particular. Unfortunately, Crimea is not an exception. After the occupation of Crimea by Russia in 2014, hundreds of activists were repressed for their civic position. At first, it was only men. However, the Russian authorities did not stop and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250655,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[315],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n