The (Possible) Role of Ombuds in Implementation of Sustainable Development Goals 2030: Case of Russia in the Biopolitical field of Gender Equity

• Autores: Tatiana Barandova
• Localización: Current Issues On Human Rights / coord. por Alexander Sungurov, Carlos R. Fernández Liesa, María del Carmen Barranco Avilés, María Cruz Llamazares Calzadilla, Óscar Pérez de la Fuente, 2020, ISBN 978-84-1324-552-2, págs. 249-262
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The Ombuds (in Russia it titled as The Plenipotentiary Commissioner for Human Rights) as the National Human Rights Protection institutions, were established in majority of ex-“soviet camp” countries following the global trends in the period of Soviet system collapse while taken political course on transition to democracy after Perestroyka. They absorb all problematic points of political, social, ecological, religious, cultural and legal contexts in the multinational, multi-confession and high level of social inequality in country while the politics of gender equality adopted, contested and negotiated during the late period, starting just at the end of 90s. Meanwhile, due to ignoring (and sometimes even rejecting) gender component of human rights, public policies and institutions in contemporary Russia (and in other post-communist countries as well), this case shows contrasting example in comparing with many. In Russia gender regime of the Ombuds remains still unstudied, no appropriate methodology elaborated, lack of empiric materials accumulated. Not much of gender analysis of its establishment process and on-going activity undertaken yet. There has been no systematic study of practices and, as a result, not many recommendations for antidiscrimination activities offered. Meanwhile, the institution shows high level of women’s political representation (up to 40% in some periods) and potencies of introducing protection of gender-based rights violations via its tools named The Annual and/or Specialized Reports.

    Regional HRCs as an institution having a complex nature , and found at the boundary of legal, political and socio-cultural spaces. Legislative consolidation, ideological basis, positioning in institutional design in some regions, and methods of staffing assignment allows to identify it as partly-independent institution, while its functional characteristics and repertoire of practices correlate with social aspects of public interests protection. Ombuds are also an instrumental entity (mechanism) for asserting individual rights and freedoms, rehabilitation of discriminated people. RHRCs are also an instrumental entity (mechanism) for asserting individual rights and freedoms. In order to identify the component of its gender sensitivity, both ways of analysis are important: normative and socio-political (as public), and socio-cultural and psychological (as private). I pretend to consider this state-based human rights protection institution also as one of the actors to be involved in the Sustainable Development Goals implementation in the wide spectrum, but in this paper I am analyzing consideration of their activity and further possible role, starting from Human Rights and Gender Equity fields.