Page 42 Ending Sex Discrimination in the Law EQUALITY NOW – BEIJING+25 MADAGASCAR The Labor Code (Law No. 2003-44 of 28 July 2004): Article 85. ... Women, regardless of age, shall not be employed at night in any industrial establishment of any kind, public or private, secular or religious, nor in any annex of one of these establishments even if these establishments are of a professional or charitable character, except for establishments where the only ones employed therein are members of one same family. Take Action – Madagascar President Andry Rojoelina Palais de Mahazoarivo Antananarivo MADAGASCAR Email: sg@senat.gov.mg Twitter: @SE_Rajoelina Note: Article 6 of the Constitution of Madagascar: All individuals are equal under the law, and enjoy the same fundamental liberties protected by law without discrimination based on sex, education, wealth, origin, religious belief or opinion. RUSSIAN FEDERATION Resolution No. 162 of 25 February 2000: List of heavy work and work in harmful or dangerous conditions in which the employment of women is prohibited. Order No. 512H of the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation of July 18, 2019: List of productions, works and positions with harmful and (or) dangerous working conditions, on which the use of women’s labor is limited. Take Action – Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin President of Russia 23, Ilyinka Street Moscow 10313 RUSSIAN FEDERATION Email: accredit@gov.ru press@russiaun.ru (Mission to the UN in New York) Twitter: @KremlinRussia_E Labor Code – Federal Law No. 197-FZ of 2001: Article 253. Labor of females on hard, dangerous and/or unhealthy trades as well as underground working excluding non-physical work or sanitary and domestic services is forbidden. Labor of females on the work related to manual lifting of weights exceeding maximum permissible standards [is forbidden]. The lists of industries, professions, and jobs with unhealthy and/or dangerous work conditions with restricted female labor as well as maximum permissible weights for manual lifting and handling by females are approved in the procedure fixed by the Government of Russian Federation taking into account opinion of the Russian Trilateral Committee on Social and Labor Relations. Note: Resolution No. 162 passed in 2000 lists 456 types of work women may not engage in. In July 2019, the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection passed Order 512H referred to above, which has liberalized the list - there will still be 100 types of works and positions which women may not engage in, including in the production or use of yellow phosphorus, to drive self-propelled vehicles in open-cast mining, or to prepare brown mud manually. The list will enter into force on 1 January 2021. Article 19 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation: (1) All people shall be equal