"Women's rights and opportunities" 
- Special library of the Electronic Documentation Center (EDC), Moscow 

The aim of this library is to provide information on women's human, political, economic and reproductive rights to women, journalists, scholars, students, researchers, teachers, government structures, non-governamental organizations in Russia and abroad.

The documentation materials collected are divided into two sectors:

International documentation is processed in English with Russian translation; while for the Russian literature we have applied the inverted procedure. To process information the CDS/ISIS bibliographic programme has been adopted; in order to facilitate exchange with other similar units at the national and international levels, data are processed according to international standard rules.

The shelves are divided according to eight Broad Subject Headings which correspond to the main sectors that have been selected as priviledged fields of interest within the topics covered by women's rights studies:
FAMILY GENDER POPULATION GENERALITIES 
HEALTH LABOUR HUMAN RIGHTS GENERAL WORKS 
    At present there are nearly 250 books and items at International level (English) and about 200 iterms in Russian. We also collect  "grey literatura" on same topics. With the intent of facilitating retrieval of information six Authority Lists have been prepared and are available for consultation.

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