Tatia Lortkipanidze (left) and Baia Pataraia (Coalition for Equality)
Georgian weightlifter Tatia Lortkipanidze has announced that she plans to sue the Georgian Weightlifting Federation and its head coach, Temur Janjgava, for sexual harassment and discrimination. [Read more…]
Novaya Gazeta’s list published on 9 July (novayagazeta.ru)
According to the BBC’s Russian service, relatives of the 27 young men allegedly executed en mass in Chechnya in January were forced by local authorities to declare that the men had left for Syria.
A large number of women’s issues have to do with stigmas and stereotypes that are based on non-existent biological differences between men and women. According to a lot of people, mental capabilities, functions, beauty standards, preferences, and more, vary between sexes. This in turn causes problems for women, problems that are often ignored or not perceived as problems in the first place. What puzzles me is that people are sometimes even more oblivious to women’s issues that arise from an actual, existent difference between the two genders. [Read more…]
