Document #1237700
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
Information specific to a social agency
known as SovBez in Kazakhstan or any of the other former
Soviet republics is not currently available to the DIRB. For your
information, however, please find attached excerpts from three
articles which indicate that women in the former Soviet Union
received maternity benefits from the state; the agency or
department in charge of distribution of benefits is not specified
(Europa 1991 1991, 2678; RL 7 Apr. 1989, 11; Shreir 1988,
268).
The Europa World Year Book 1991.
1991. Vol. 1. London: Europa Publications Ltd.
Radio Liberty (RL). 7 April 1989. Vol.
1, No. 14. Report on the USSR. Annette Bohr. "Resolving the
Question of Equality for Soviet Women - Again."
Shreir, Sally. ed. 1988. Women's
Movements of the World. London: Longman Group UK.
The Europa World Year Book 1991.
1991. Vol. 1. London: Europa Publications Ltd, p. 2678.
Radio Liberty (RL). 7 April 1989. Vol.
1, No. 14. Report on the USSR. Annette Bohr. "Resolving the
Question of Equality for Soviet Women - Again," p. 11-12. Shreir,
Sally. ed. 1988. Women's Movements of the World. London:
Longman Group UK, p. 268.