Following Turkish big brother's example. A draft has been worked out in Kazakhstan that is giving equal rights to men and women.

7 - 14 September 2002 the 13th International summer school on human rights took place in Poland. School was organized by Helsinki Committee in Poland and Helsinki Fund for Human rights.

A law approved by the Parliament will make alterations to the Civil Code of Iran and will allow women to take the cases of divirce to court.

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".

Commander-in-chief of Chili Naval Forces said that in the next year women get a possibility to serve in the naval forces as medical officers and judges.

On 9 July 2002 at 10.30 in the Institute of the Press Development: Moscow, Tverskoy Blvrd., 20, the press conference on the subject "Again in Russia: report about human rights situation in 2001", prepared by the network of Russian regional remedial organizations" (presentation of the annual report of the Moscow Helsinki Group "Human rights in the regions of the Russian Federation (events 2001)"will take place.

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.