The International Committee of Indigenous Peoples of Russia (ICIPR) expresses extreme concern and indignation over the inclusion of 55 Indigenous Peoples’ organizations, national minorities, decolonial, and other associations in the list of “extremists” by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation….
On June 25, 2024, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) issued its judgment on the case of Ukraine v. Russia (re Crimea), on complaints from 2014 and 2018 concerning a pattern of human rights violations in Crimea. The 17-judge…
The issue includes theses from the European Parliament debate ‘Opposing Russian Colonial Oppression: Voices of Different Peoples’; the Russian state’s usurpation of the ‘ethnic agenda’ and persecution in Bashkortostan; the difficult situation of minorities in Central Asia; the war-time reality…
On April 11-12, 2024, a meeting of experts who developed a Supplement to the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders was held in Bangkok. This meeting is part of the Declaration +25 project, led by the International Human Rights Service…
Paris, Brussels, Bishkek, 7 March 2024 Until recently, labor laws in many Eastern European and Central Asian States banned women from hundreds of professions. Since 2017, a number of States have abolished these lists of prohibited occupations; in Russia, Belarus…
Upon consideration of Russia’s state report at its 95th session in January 2024, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child issued recommendations to Russia with harsh criticism of violations of children’s rights. The Committee took into account reports…
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