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In Belarus, many people, including women, do not view the unequal status of women as a social injustice. As a result women's rights [5] are widely seen as not important. Married women in Belarus are entitled to retain personal and private property, income, investments, and other assets earned by them. [5]
Map of Belarus in Europe Violence against women in Belarus is a significant issue in Belarusian society. Belarus is ranked 29th on the Gender Inequality Index and 36th on the Global Gender Gap Index. Despite this, the government of Belarus has been criticised by the United Nations and human rights activists for its active role in suppressing women's rights and perpetuating violence against ...
The Belarusian Women's Party "Nadzieja" (Belarusian: Беларуская партыя жанчын «Надзея», romanized: Biełaruskaja partyja žančyn "Nadzieja"; Russian: Белорусская партия женщин «Надзея», romanized: Belorusskaya partiya zhenshchin «Nadzeya») (Belarusian for "Hope") is a political party in Belarus which opposes the administration of ...
Prostitution in Belarus (2 P) V. Violence against women in Belarus (1 C, 7 P) This page was last edited on 19 January 2023, at 16:43 (UTC). ...
Belarus has come under attack from Amnesty International for its treatment of political prisoners, [55] including those from the youth wing of the Belarusian Popular Front (a pro-democracy party). In a report dated 26 April 2005 Amnesty criticised Belarus for its treatment of dissidents, including a woman imprisoned for publishing a satirical ...
Before the 2020 presidential election, Alexander Lukashenko insisted that Belarus is not ready for a woman to be president. On 17 July 2020, the three women representing the main opposition candidates (Tsikhanouskaya, Tsepkalo's wife Veronica and Babaryka's campaign manager Maryja Kalesnikava) merged their campaigns, pitting "Female Solidarity ...
Women in Belarus; A. Abortion in Belarus This page was last edited on 12 May 2022, at 21:48 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Prostitution in Belarus is illegal [1] [2] but commonplace [3] and is an administrative, rather than criminal, offence. [1] [2] Running a brothel is forbidden and engaging in other means of pimping are punishable by up to 10 years in prison. [4] UNAIDS estimated there were 22,000 sex workers in Belarus in 2016. [5] Sex trafficking is a problem ...