Steps to equal rights

Altai regional social organization "Young journalists of Altai" published the leaflet titled "Your right". Leaflet includes extracts of frequently asked questions from the column "Your right" of the youth Internet newspaper "Territory".

"Bringing up their own Thatchers, Handis and Bhuttos is not the true intention of men in the post-Soviet space - nobody wants competition".

Report of the Specialists group of the Department for equality between men and women issues of the Board for Human Rights in the Council of Europe (Strasburg, May 1998).

Four global conferences on women's situation, called by UNO during the last quarter of the century, helped to focus attention of the world community on the problem of gender equality. Resolutions of conferences consolidated people of the whole world to achieve common targets and to work out an effective plan of activities in order to improve women's situation in all the spheres of social and private life.

Approved June 29, 1951 by the 34th Session of the General Assembly if the International Labour Organization. Coming into force: May, 23 1953 according to the article 6.

Conception of legislative activities aimed at securing of equal rights and equal opportunities for men and women (further - Conception) is based on the fact that women's rights are an integral part of human rights in general. Equality of rights and freedoms of citizens regardless of the sex is pronounced and secured by the Russian Federation Constitution, legislation of the Russian Federation as well as by the standards of international legislation. Article 19 of the Russian federation Constitution proclaims, "men and women have equal rights and freedoms and equal opportunities for its realization".