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Violence Against Women: 10 Reports / Year 2003All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, the Beijing Rules andPlatform for Action and the Declaration on the Elimination of ViolenceAgainst Women as these instruments provide detailed protection forwomen against violence in the family, in the community and at the handsof State officials.1 Fourth Periodic Report submitted by the Russian Federation to the Committee onEconomic, Social and Cultural Rights, UN Doc. E/C.12/4/Add.10, (November2001), p. 4.2 World Bank, Press Release, World Bank Supports Russian Health Sector ReformsWith $30 Million Loan, available athttp://www.worldbank.org.ru/ECA/Russia.nsf/0/EECE760446AF5DB7C3256D0B00273C59.3 UNICEF, Russian Federation, available athttp://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/russia.html.4 World Bank, available at: www.worldbank.org.5 UNICEF, Russian Federation, Ibid.6 Reforming Russia’s Education System by Abdur Chowdhury and Inna Verbinaavailable at: http://www.worldbank.org/transitionnewsletter/janfebmar03/pg43.htm.7 International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF-HR), Annual Report:Russia 2003, p. 2-5 (events of 2002).8 Canadian Journalists for Free Expression, Casualties of Truth: 46 Violent Deathsin 2002, available at http://www.cjfe.org/specials/attacks02/attacks02.doc.9 The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, OMCT andFIDH, Human Rights Defenders on the Front Line, Annual Report 2002, p. 169.10 Open Society Institute, Combating Discrimination in Russia: Strategies forLawyers and NGOs, Report of a Workshop held in Moscow, 27-29 January 2003.11 Fédération Internationale des Ligues des Droits de l’Homme, Tchétchénie: crimescontre l’humanité – un an de crimes impunis (Octobre 2000).12 European Committee for the Prevention of Torture, Press Release, Chechnya:Council of Europe Anti-Torture Committee makes a public statement (July 10,2003).13 International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF-HR), Women 2000:Russia, p. 372, available at www.ihf-hr.org; see also Moscow Helsinki Group(MHG), Discrimination Against Women in Contemporary Russia (2003).14 IHF-HR, Women 2000: Russia, Ibid., p. 372.15 Ibid., p. 372-73.16 MHG, Discrimination Against Women, Ibid. (citing example of law “On BasicGuarantees of Electoral Rights and the Right of Citizens of the RussianFederation to Participate in a Referendum.,” where legislators refused to include324