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Chechnya
Chechnya has a population estimated at approximately 1 million. The capital is Grozny. The major languages are Chechen and Russian. Rich in oil, its economy and infrastructure were reduced to ruins by years of war between local separatists and Russian forces, combined with armed banditry and organised crime.
- Chechnya has not ratified The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
- Chechnya does not have a National Action Plan on United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (UNSCR 1325)
- Chechnya does not have a UN peacekeeping mandate
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News
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March 11, 2011 (The Christian Science Monitor)
CHECHNYA: Chechen Women Attacked With Paintball Guns For 'Immodest' Dress Chechnya's Kremlin-installed strongman Ramzan Kadyrov has ordered Chechen women to wear "modest attire" that covers their entire bodies, including their heads, whenever they go outdoors, and has sent vigilantes into the streets to attack disobedient women with paintball guns, according to a report just released by New York-based Human Rights Watch. -
March 7, 2011 (Seattle Times)
CHECHNYA: Chechnya's Strongman Defends Treatment Of Women Chechnya's strongman Ramzan Kadyrov on Tuesday shrugged off rights groups' accusations that he is imposing strict Islamic rules on women in the Russian republic. -
February 4, 2011 (Reuters)
CHECHNYA: Chechnya Muslim Leader Calls For Women To Cover Up The spiritual leader of Russia's Muslim Chechnya region called on women on Wednesday to dress more "modestly" and only show their face and hands, in the latest attempt by authorities to install Islamic ideas. -
November 19, 2010 (Human Rights Watch)
CHECHNYA: Enforcement of Islamic Dress Code for Women in Chechnya In the past few years the situation of women's rights in Chechnya has deteriorated significantly, requiring immediate attention from the Russian government and Russia's international partners. -
October 4, 2010 (RiaNovosti)
CHECHNYA: Chechen Officials Dismiss Reports of Street Raids on Bare-Headed Women Neither the commissioner for human rights nor the police in Russia's North Caucasus Republic of Chechnya have received any reports about attacks on women not wearing headscarves, a spokesman for the commissioner's office said.
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Resources
- You Dress According to Their Rules: Enforcement of an Islamic Dress Code for Women in Chechnya, Human Rights Watch, March 10, 2011 | Download PDF
- Worse Than a War: "Disappearances" in Chechnya- a Crime Against Humanity, Human Rights Watch, March 2005 | Download PDF
- Rape and Sexual Assault in Chechnya, Valentina Rousseva, November 2004 | Download PDF
- "Glad to be Deceived": the International Community and Chechnya, Human Rights Watch, January 2004 | Download PDF
- Russian Federation: Chechen Republic: "Normalization" in Whose Eyes?, Amnesty International , June 23, 2004 | Download PDF
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Initiatives
- REPORTAGE: Inside Chechnya: Misery, Fear, and Abuse, Other, , February, 2001
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