Women's Legal Defense Center of the Bashkortostan Republic

The center advocates equal rights and equal social status for women in the Bashkortostan Republic. It conducts sociological research on women in Bashkortostan society, and publishes a newsletter of rights violations and events of the both the local and worldwide feminist movement. Currently, the group is working to establish professional re-training courses for unemployed women and a program to encourage entrepreneurship among women.

Last updated:    February 1999

A print version of much of the information contained in this NIS Third Sector Organizations section can be found in the The Post-Soviet Handbook (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1999).

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