“How the Crisis Center for Women works and how you can help together”. That’s the master class title which was held on June, 15 by the project manager of our organization Anastasia Chuvaeva for the leaders of the women’s councils of the Leningrad region Anastasia shared her personal project, campaigns, and partnership collaborations managing experience…
Let’s talk about the numbers, particularly our work statistics for the first four months of the 2022 year. As it often happens, the results are impressive. During these four months, the Crisis center received 2,673 requests (traditionally, the maximum – was 740 – we received in January). Our hotline was called 482 times. More than…
The new year starts and a new program as well! It is a volunteering program at the Crisis Center! We are often asked if there is any way to help or participate in our projects or campaigns. Now we answer “Yes, you can!” If you wanted to participate in the Crisis Center life, benefit, and…
New guides have been published on our “P.O.L.I.N.A” platform. They content legal advice for women about HIV testing and about rights of women living with HIV. “Highly likely someone who reads that news thinks that this theme is specific and it doesn’t relate them. In fact, gender-related violence is the key factor of HIV infection…
At the beginning of December 2021, INGI “Crisis Center for Women” in collaboration with the Design Bureau “Verstak” (Rus. for workbench) held the second project incubator on creative digital camping for young regional nonprofit social initiatives. An important condition for participants was to focus their campaigns on the youth audience (18-25 years old). Participants could…
For this project, commissioned especially by The Calvert Journal, photographer and body-positive activist Miliyollie met with feminists from across Russia engaged in all forms of activist work: from vlogging and organising charity parties, to lobbying for legislation in parliament and leading crisis centres. She talked to them about their work, their goals and hopes, and about this particular moment in the history of the Russian feminist movement.
Last Wednesday, we conducted training on gender sensitivity and “hate speech” for the media. Thanks to everyone who came! There will definitely be more. “No one offers analogs of such training. This is the author’s development of the organization’s specialists. Journalists are one of the most “poorly selected” categories of specialists for training events. However,…
Viðurlög við því að beita heimilisofbeldi voru milduð í Rússlandi fyrir ári síðan. Baráttufólk fyrir mannréttindum hefur ítrekað reynt að fá stjórnvöld til að bæta úr því, án árangurs. Sérfræðingur segir erfitt fyrir þolendur heimilisofbeldis að fá aðstoð lögreglu.
