SYOSTRI - REGIONAL NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION, INDEPENDENT CHARITY SEXUAL ASSAULT RECOVERY CENTER Moscow The Center was reregistered in May 30, 1997 by the Justice Administration of Moscow. Its registration number is 7671.

Adress: mail box 38, Moscow 113035, Russia
Contact persons: Maria Mohova, the director;
tel./fax: (7-095) 901-02-01;
e-mail: syostri@cityline.ru

The Syostri Center was formed in 1994.

Activities of the Center are the following:

• Providing sexual assault survivors with help and support through hotline service, face-to-face counselling, support groups for women.
• Educational programs on preventing sexual violence and self-defence for teenagers and young people; training programs on the issues of work with sexual assault survivors for experts (medical doctors, nurses, psychologicsts); trainings and internships for counselors from crisis centers of Russia and NIS.
• Legal Project: legal counselling and advocacy activities in court; educational programs for representatives of law enforcement agencies.
• Initiatives on holding specific events and conferences on the issues of violence against women.
• Collaboration with mass media focused on changing social attitude to sexual assault survivors; improving their status in soceity; creating legal, psychological, social conditions for rehabilitation of sexual assault survivors.