Paul Goble
Staunton, Feb. 6 – A dozen years ago, the Mothers of Dagestan for Human Rights organization launched what it described as “the first Internet resource devoted to the problems of Dagestani women” (kavkaz-uzel.ru/articles/237901/). In the intervening period, it has expanded its focus on the status of women across the North Caucasus.
For many stories about this topic, the Daptar portal is the only reliable source; and over the past decade it has achieved some victories against those there who oppress women. But mostly, it has simply chronicled what is going on. Windows on Eurasia has often relied on it to discuss what is happening in the North Caucasus.
Despite Daptar’s efforts, he tragedies large and small the women of the traditional societies of the North Caucasus suffer because of the attitudes of men and the rulers of these republics both locally and in Moscow that it has chronicled when few others do have only increased in number since 2012.
To expand its coverage and protect more women in that region, the Daptar staff has launched a new bullet devoted to the continuing femicide there. Its first issue has now been posted at the Daptar portal side (daptar.ru/2026/02/06/byulleten-daptara-femicid-prodolzhaetsya/).
Among the stories it features are the following; a Dagestani mullah kills his second wife, rights activists are seeking to get Georgia to investigate kidnaping of a Chechen woman and her forcible removal to Russia, Ingush courts quash charges against a local woman who fled violence for supposedly stealing money, and a Dagestani has been sentenced to eight years in prison upon returning from Syria.
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