The Sisters Centre engaged in helping victims of sexual violence turns 25
Press Release, 18.04.2019
Yabloko’s friendly non-governmental organisation the Sisters Centre, which is engaged in helping victims of sexual violence, turned 25 years old.
For all these years, the unique Sisters Centre was providing professional psychological and legal support to women in difficult situations and conducted seminars and round tables teaching psychologists and lawyers how to provide help and open same centres.
The party’s Gender Faction has always supported the Sisters, including collection of 44,000 signatures in favour of the Centre, when they authorities wanted to enlist the NGO as a “foreign agent”.
Galina Mikhaleva, Chairwoman of Yabloko’s Gender Faction, spoke at the Setrofest, a festivity dedicated to the work of the centre, and stressed that both the status of women in general and work of non-governmental organisations such as Sisters would become even more complex in a the situation of a “conservative turn” in Russia.
Yabloko sends its greetings to the Sisters Centre on their anniversary and wishes the centre further successful the work!
Posted: April 20th, 2019 under Gender Faction.