Julia Ostrovskaya is a lawyer and master of political science. Deputy Director at Center for Social and Labor Rights (CSLR). CSLR is a Russian non-profit NGO for promotion, compliance and protection of human rights and gender equality.
Member of the ‘Women’s Major Group’ on sustainable development.
As an expert Julia cooperates with Russian and international human rights NGOs and trade unions, regional and international institutions.
Introduction
Women’s rights continue to be one of the most pressing issues in international human rights law, and in the time, that has passed since the development of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Equality between women and men and the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women are fundamental to human rights.
However, historically, many of the rights that we now consider human rights belonged only to men, while women did not have equal rights with men. In the modern world, women regularly suffer from human rights violations and the realization of women’s rights in the modern world is still often not considered a top priority.