Post-Soviet Legal Choices 2: Post-Soviet Choices for Women and LGBTQI+ People: Human Rights (Un)Challenged

Legal Choices for Women and LGBTQI+ people have been difficult in the post-Soviet period. After the dissolution of the USSR, gender equality project was also dismantled while human rights of LGBTQI+ people were not even on the agenda. Re-traditionalisation provided a framework for the governments to argue cultural angle on human rights. The debate became especially visible when the Istanbul Convention was released for signing and ratification in 2014. The Talk focuses on the cultural sovereignty debate around Istanbul Convention, EU gender equality strategies and responses from activists, NGOs, conservative organisations and governments in South Caucasus, Ukraine, and Russia in the past decade.

Speakers: 

Maryna Shevtsova , University of Ljubljana
Visiting Professor and EUTOPIA Postdoctoral Fellow

Laura Luciani, Ghent University 
PhD Fellow at the Institute for International and European Studies

Radzhana Buyantueva, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB-CEVIPOL)
Postdoctoral researcher of the Fonds national de la Recherche Scientifique