The Russian Federation’s Public Chamber to protect heads of CSOs working on a voluntary basis   11.04.2023   Disagreements between officials at the Labour and Finance Ministries and the Russian Federal Tax Service may deprive some CSO leaders of their index-linked pensions. The Public Chamber has promised to get to the bottom of this.   …

Reported by Eurasianet 10 April 2023 Uzbekistan has been shaken by a horrific tale of sexual slavery in an Urgench orphanage. The perpetrators were local officials who had gone largely unpunished until the president’s daughter, Saida Mirziyoyeva, demanded justice. Does it really require an intervention from the top for Uzbekistan to address such a tragedy? …

Another Step In Legal Protection For Women And Children In Uzbekistan Published by RFE/RL   9 April  2023  By Bruce Pannier A podcast Share on Facebook Share on Twitt A milestone was reached in Uzbekistan on April 6 when the country’s upper house of parliament passed a bill criminalizing domestic violence and strengthening laws that aim …

Legislation to protect families from the removal of children to be finalised by the Russian Government   07.04.2023   Draft amendments to the Federal Family Code have been prepared concerning the rights of parents, the protection of the family from unwarranted interference and the removal of children.   A special parliamentary and government working group …

Social advertising featuring women living with HIV appearing on digital screens in a number of Russian cities   06.04.2023   Women living with HIV are telling their stories on digital screens in St Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, Kazan, Irkutsk and Yekaterinburg.   An information campaign has been launched by the E.V.A. Association with the …

The Russian government has proposed changes to the allocation of welfare to families   The new proposal would take into account the income of the spouses and their children, rather than every person in a household.   03.04.2023   A family with an average per capita income below the minimum wage in the region is …

52% of Russians are prepared to donate to funds for people with rare ‘orphan’ diseases   This survey was conducted by the National Agency for Financial Studies analytical centre.   03.04.23   There are more than 260 diseases on the Russian Ministry of Health’s list of rare diseases, although according to the survey results, 65% …

International conference on the employment of people with disabilities held in the Urals   27.03.2023   A conference on “Organising daytime employment for people with disabilities: Problems and solutions” was held on 21 March at the Inclusive Cultural Centre in the village of Verkh-Neyvinsky, supported by the Ural State Pedagogical University and the Blagoe Delo …

Social entrepreneurs and CSO managers invited to study at the Higher School of Economics (HSE)   27.03.2023   An HSE course on “Management and innovation in social entrepreneurship” is to begin on 5 April.   This initiative has been developed and implemented jointly with the Regional Social Programmes charity Our Future. The course will take …

Parents of children with disabilities invited to join a support group   24.03.2023   Free sessions with a psychologist are being organised by the Partnership for Every Child CSO.   Parents from St Petersburg and Leningrad oblast who are raising children with disabilities up to the age of seven are being invited to the sessions. …