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Even before the 2022 invasion started, women and girls living in conflict-affected eastern Ukraine bordering Russia have not felt safe – neither in public nor at home – since the war in Donbas broke out in 2014. The situation was worsened by devastating social and economic crises, access to weaponry, and trauma created by the ongoing armed ...
In its first month, FAR became "one of Russia’s fastest-growing anti-war campaigns", attracting more than 26,000 followers on Telegram. [4] On 23 December 2022, the Russia's Ministry of Justice added the movement to the so-called list of "foreign agent". [5] In April 2024, the movement was labeled as an "undesirable organization". [6]
On 4 June 2021, Matviichuk was nominated to the United Nations Committee against Torture [10] and made history as Ukraine's first female candidate to the UN treaty body. [11] She ran on a platform to limit violence against women in conflict. Between the Revolution of Dignity and 2022, she focused on documentation of war crimes during the war in ...
The women fear the war will turn into a frozen conflict, like the yearslong fight against Russian-backed separatists in the east. To stop that from happening, U.S. aid is crucial, they said ...
In the first few weeks of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Independent TV reached out to a group of women who were trying to figure out how to survive the conflict. Victoria Bredikhina, Valeria ...
Women in Yemen suffer from gender-based discrimination due to the highly patriarchal character of Yemeni society. [3] Although the government of Yemen has made efforts to improve the rights of women (including the formation of a Women's Development Strategy and a Women Health Development Strategy), [ 4 ] many cultural and religious norms stand ...
In February 2015, Russia and Ukraine signed the Minsk II agreements, but they were never fully implemented in the years that followed. The Donbas war settled into a violent but static conflict between Ukraine and the Russian and separatist forces, with many brief ceasefires but no lasting peace and few changes in territorial control.
The Socialist International, in press release, announced that organization "wholly condemns the Russian invasion of Ukraine" added that it "rejects the claims made by the Russian president over the sovereign territory of Ukraine and its allegations of oppression and genocide, repeated as a pretext for the invasion that began this morning". [134]