The issue reports on the increase in discrimination and hate speech during the pandemic; persecution of women defending human rights in Russia and Belarus; violations of the rights of LGBTI people and ethnic minorities in the ex-USSR countries. So that…
ADC Memorial is deeply concerned about today’s searches and arrests of our Belarusian colleagues from Human Rights Center Viasna and other civil rights initiatives – BHC, Human Constanta, Lawtrend, Gender Perspectives, independent journalists, trade unionists and others. Political repressions against…
ADC Memorial expert Olga Abramenko spoke about the situation of Roma people in Russia at the conference The Cost of Security, which was organized by the Sova Center for Information and Analysis. The discussion was titled “Discrimination in Russia Today….
June 1 – International Children’s Day – Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” in partnership with colleagues from Moldova (“Ave Copiii”), Ukraine (“Women’s Consortium”, member of the Coalition “Children’s Rights in Ukraine”) and Belarus (“Our House”) raised the problem of observing children’s rights…
On May 18, 1944, the Crimean Tatar people were deported en masse from Crimea to remote regions of Central Asia and beyond the Urals. The memory of this event – when a purge descended upon an entire people, when individuals were labeled…
Natalya Sokolova, our beloved colleague and friend, passed away on May 8, 2021. For many years she has participated in anti-fascist demonstrations in St. Petersburg on this day, and we have always celebrated this date together, even when we lived…
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