YABLOKO to participate in Sexist of the Year 2015 award ceremony
Press release, 03.03.2016
On 15 March, the sixth ceremony of the Sexist of the Year 2015 award will take place in the House of Journalists (Dom Zhurnalista) in Moscow. The event will be held with the support of YABLOKO’s Gender Faction.
The Sexist of the Year award was established by the For Feminism initiative group in 2010. The award aims at attracting public attention to the problem of sexism and fighting discrimination against women.
The winners are being determined by online voting in the nominations: “Sexist of the year, “Sexism in mass media”, “Sexism in advertising”, “Women’s statements against women”, “Antiwomen policy”.
This year among the nominees are Pavel Astakhov (Children’s right Ombudsman in Russia), Gennady Onishchenko (Assistant to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev) and others.
Online voting will be closed on 14 March.
The ceremony will begin at 15:00.
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Posted: March 3rd, 2016 under Gender Faction, Human Rights.