Ekaterina Zemskova
I hold an LL.B. in International Law from Belarusian State University (Belarus, Minsk). I am interested in women’s rights and gender equality, especially reproductive and sexual rights because there is a lot of taboo around this topic in society and this must be eradicated in order to ensure the protection of women's health and lives. I have my own project Human Rights Vocabulary (http://humanrightsvocabulary.com/), the main idea of which is to raise awareness of human rights among Russian-speaking people.
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Women’s Rights in Poland: It Is Not Just the Reproductive Issues
The reproductive rights of women in Poland have become a widely discussed topic in recent months. The protests, which were motivated by the fact that the Constitutional Court of Poland made a decision that effectively bans abortion in the country, have appeared in the news of many leading news outlets. According to the Polish Ministry of…
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Practical and Moral Side of Women’s Digital Rights to Privacy
A study published by the Data & Society Research Institute (New York, United States) in 2016 found that 1 in 25 Americans are either threatened with or victims of nonconsensual image sharing, or “revenge porn,” and that women under 30, people of color and members of the LGBTQ community are much more likely than men to…
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The State of Abortion Rights in Poland in 2020
Abortion has always been and continues to be a sensitive and delicate topic. The necessity to terminate a pregnancy vastly vary, but it is always associated with a lot of complex and deep emotions for women. In many cases, the restrictive laws and decisions made by the Governmental authorities related to a woman’s right to safe…
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Can Women Exercise Their Rights of Legal and Safe Abortion During the Pandemic?
The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women states that: Acts such as forced sterilization, forced abortion, forced pregnancy, criminalization of abortion, denial or delay of safe abortion <…> could constitute forms of gender-based violence against women. Despite the fact that the sexual and reproductive rights of women have been one of the points on…
