Women's Issues in Belarus

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A new area of the A Belarus Miscellany Web site (and includes the confusing title, "Gender Studies"). Please contact me for corrections, additions, etc.

• Links to Other Sections of this Web Site

• News Articles about Women's Issues in Belarus

• News Article Archives: 1998-1999

• Belarusian Women's Party Nadzeya

  
  

• Belarusian Union of Women   (http://www.tim.com.by/Society/BUW/Index_NS.html)

  
  

• News Article about Interforum, a new association of women engaged in intellectual work.

  Interforum plans to initiate and carry out large projects, including international conferences, festivals, exhibitions, and educational projects. "We want to bring together artists, cultural figures, and managers, and concentrate on cultural and educational work. Our most important task is to raise society's intellectual and spiritual level."

  
  

• News Article about the Belarusian Organization of Working Women (BOWW)

  "Representatives of BOWW say that they were physically assaulted in the reception room of Vladimir Konoplyov, deputy chairman of the House of Representatives of the Belarusian National Assembly, on May 29 [2000] while awaiting a meeting with Mr. Konoplyov's assistant. . . ."

  
  

• Envila Women's University

  
  

• Women's Education and Consulting Center   (Mensk)

  Director: Lyudmila Petina

  
  

• Belarusian Women in a Historical Perspective   (1997 Report at the United Nations Web site in Belarus.) Be sure to refer to links at bottoms of pages to see all sections of the report.

  Note: The most extensive publication on the Web describing Belarusian women's issues that I am aware of.

  
  

• Other

  • The Belarusian League for the Freedom of Sexual Minorities, Lambda