Marina Pisklakova-Parker

Marina Pisklakova-Parker is a Russian women's rights activist and author. She is the first person to establish a women's crisis center to help victims of domestic violence in Russia.[1][2][3][4]

Marina Pisklakova-Parker
NationalityRussian
OrganizationANNA
Known forAnti-domestic violence activism
AwardsGlobal Leadership Award

Education and career

Pisklakova studied aeronautical engineering at Moscow Aviation Institute. She obtained a doctoral degree in Sociology from the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. While conducting research at the Academy's Institute for Socio-Economic Studies of the Population, she came across a survey response from a woman describing maltreatment from his husband. Pisklakova was disturbed and called the center's director, who called it a case of domestic violence, which is a foreign term with no equivalent translation in Russian.[5]

Not long after, while accompanying her child to school, Pisklakova ran into a mother with a bruised and swollen face. She inquired about it but the woman refused to answer. A few days later, the woman phoned Pisklakova and told her that his husband struck her face with a shoe's heel for not stitching a button that fell off his suit quickly. Pisklakova asked the woman to leave her husband but she responded she has nowhere to go.[5][6] [7]

Pisklakova decided to call the police to report the case. The authorities responded that it is a private matter and they cannot interfere. Pisklakova sought for agencies and found out there are no institutions that address victims of domestic violence in Russia. She took the matter to her hands and contacted the head of a women's crisis center in Sweden. The director guided Pisklakova on how to establish the first women's crisis center in Russia.[5][6]

ANNA

In 1993, Pisklakova founded ANNA (National Center for the Prevention of Violence), a hotline for women to report domestic abuse and receive assistance. Pisklakova formed ANNA alone and was the only one overseeing the telephone. She faced oppositions, such as being accused of aggravating matters, as evident on her first case when the police advised the husband to beat his wife quietly.[5][7]

Pisklakova received additional funding six months later. She hired psychologists and lawyers, and rented a space to provide a shelter for the victims. She eventually provided trainings for those interested in working as counselors and for those interested in establishing women's crisis centers. As the organization grew they began working with the police force.[5][7]

In 1997, Pisklakova started a program to train lawyers in handling cases of domestic abuse. Pisklakova also lobbied for a legislation that recognizes the facets of domestic violence, such as through economic control, psychological violence and marital sexual violence.[8][1][9][5][7]

ANNA has over 40 branches throughout Russia. The organization works with more than 150 organizations to combat gender-based violence.[10][4]

Selected works
  • Marriages in Russia (1999) with Dana Vannoy, Natalia Rimashevskaya, Lisa Cubbins, Marina Malysheva, Elena Meshterkina[11][12]
  • Between Scream and Silence / Mezhdu molchaniem i krikom (2000)[11]
  • State of Fatherhood in Russia (2016)[13]

References
  1. Odynova, Alexandra. "Domestic abuse isn't a crime in Russia. One survivor says "the police don't help."". www.cbsnews.com. CBS Interactive Inc. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  2. "Russian women stuck in virus lockdown hell as abuse surges". The Japan Times. 24 May 2020. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  3. Nemtsova, Anna (2 September 2010). "Domestic Violence Pervades Russian Homes". Newsweek. NEWSWEEK DIGITAL LLC. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  4. "Marina Pisklakova-Parker (0000-0003-3551-1807)". ORCID. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  5. "Marina Pisklakova | Speak Truth to Power". Speak Truth to Power. Discovery Education. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  6. Monaghan, Jennifer (9 May 2015). "Domestic violence in Russia: Optimism as country faces up to the". The Independent. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  7. "Speak Truth to Power | Marina Pisklakova". Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  8. Manuilova, Anastasia (24 November 2017). "Nine Months After New Domestic Violence Law, Russian Women Still Struggle". The Moscow Times. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  9. ""I Could Kill You and No One Would Stop Me"". Human Rights Watch. 25 October 2018. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  10. Studer, Camille (23 September 2020). "The Istanbul Convention and the global fight to end violence against women : where do we stand? -". Azickia. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  11. "Pisklakova, M. (Marina)". OCLC WorldCat Identities. OCLC, Inc. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  12. "Marriages in Russia". ABC CLIO. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  13. "Marina Pisklakova-Parker – Every Woman Treaty". Everywoman.org. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
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