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Dariana Gryaznova

Legal Advisor, Eurasia

Europe and Central Asia

Dariana Gryaznova joined Equality Now in September 2022. As the Legal Advisor, Eurasia, her main role is contributing to Equality Now’s reports and submissions to regional and international mechanisms, strategic litigation and developing strategies with local partners on violence against women and girls, including sexual violence.

Dariana contributed to Equality Now’s recent reports and publications, including:

Dariana Gryaznova is a Russian-qualified lawyer who has been working in the human rights sector since 2013. She has been litigating human rights cases domestically and before the ECtHR and UN treaty bodies, focusing on access to information, freedom of expression, women’s rights and non-discrimination and climate change.

In 2019, she was awarded the Chevening Scholarship, the UK government’s international awards program, which has been developing future leaders since 1983.

Born in Siberia, Russia, Dariana is currently based in the EU. She is fluent in Russian and English and is learning Spanish. She holds an LLB in law from Saint Petersburg State University and an LLM (Distinction) in Human Rights Law from the Queen Mary University of London.

Dariana has a personal blog (in Russian) where she shares her thoughts on violence against women in Russia and globally.

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Republic of Moldova: Submission to the CEDAW Committee on gender-based violence against women and girls

Equality Now and Moldovan organisations urge the CEDAW Committee to press the Republic of Moldova to close gaps in protection, justice and reparation for survivors of gender-based violence.

Kazakhstan: Joint submission to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, 93rd Session, on gender-based violence against women and girls

Tajikistan: Joint submission to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, 101st Session on ending child marriage and sexual violence against girls

CRC submission on Tajikistan addressing persisting legal gaps that enable child marriage and sexual violence against girls.

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