Azerbaijani Feminists Take on Official Sexism
Official who said women belong in the kitchen receives an inflatable sex doll as a present.
Official who said women belong in the kitchen receives an inflatable sex doll as a present.
They say underhand tactics were used to discredit their campaigns.
Proposed changes ban arbitrary dismissal during maternity, but activists also want better pay and conditions.
Next month’s ballot for Yerevan city council will test how well a quota system for female candidates is working.
Controversial scheme would restrict foreign travel for young women, instead of trying to curb violence perpetrated by their countrymen.
From March, women will have to pay if they want to have their babies in the better-provided capital.
It took a while, but Aynuru Altybaeva finally convinced her parliamentary colleagues that old "tradition" was criminal behaviour.
Activists date emergence of widespread problems to the conflict of the early 1990s.