Workers of the municipal social services participate in training on emergency help for victims of domestic violence.

Perm Center against violence and "white slavery" made the research trying to find out the extent of knowledge by medical workers about violence against women.

Non-commercial partnership "Women's Alliance" is holding the interregional conference "Domestic violence. Not for a minute more!" on September 10-11, 2002 in Barnaul. The target of the conference is to highlight the role of the community and its involvement into the process of solving the problem of domestic violence.

Training seminar on the subject: “Preventive measures on domestic and social violence” (multi-disciplinary approach) took place in the frames of the Forum.

According to the data of the Home Office of Great Britain, 167 women in England and Wells suffer from domestic violence, and every twentieth adult woman suffered from violence at least once in her life.

St-Petersburg crisis center for women - one of the first social organizations in St-Petersburg celebrated its 10th anniversary. Center supports victims of violence. Center has been established to render psychological support for victims of violence. Crisis Center is working at present as remedial organization.

Chairman of the Committee of the social policy of the Federation Council RF Valentina Petrenko, opening on Friday in the Council of Federation the international conference "Russian Women in the 21st Century" equal rights of men and women" proclaimed statistical data on cases of domestic violence against women.

We have the honour to inform you that on 13-14 February 2003 Tallinn will host the Third Baltic Sea Women's Conference on WoMen and Democracy with the Ministry of Social Affairs of Estonia as the main organiser.

To review the results of the round table in the Lomonosov Moscow State University in April 2002 collected thesis and reports has been published: "Gender approach to problem of violence: research strategies and role of educational programs".

In Nizhniy Tagil (Sverdlovsk Region) the social organization for support to victims of sexual and domestic violence "Lana" starts the project "Monitoring of the situation concerning discrimination against women in Russia".

Model legislation has been developed to surmount the imperfection of the present criminal and civil legislation and/or to improve existing laws about domestic violence. It is developed for legislative bodies and organizations supporting the adoption of gender specific and comprehensive legislation in the sphere of domestic violence.

Family and domestic violence remains serious problem in Russia: according to the statistics, 40% of grave crimes are committed at home.