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For more than a century, March 8 has been considered to be a day of equality of women and men, a day to fight for gender rights. In the Russian Federation (as previously in the USSR), this day is marked…

Statement of ADC Memorial on Human Rights Day, December 10th, 2011 Stop political persecutions of civil and human rights activists! On December 10th, Human Rights Days is celebrated all over the world. Every year on this day the United Nations…

In 1974 the 30th day of October was declared the Day of political prisoners in USSR. 37 years have passed, and many things have changed. The USSR does not exist anymore, but political repressions still take place in the countries…

Joint statement of the Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” and the SOVA Centre for Information and Analysis  Police is not a social group. A criminal case against the participants of the art-group “Voina” (War) has been dismissed.  In October, the Investigating Committee…

To the memory of our colleagues : statement of Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” On the 14th of June, the Saint-Petersburg city court sentenced the murderers of Nikolay Girenko, researcher, expert and defender of the rights of ethnical minorities. Voyevodin, organizer of…

On the occasion of the 13-20 May 2011 visit to the Russian Federation of the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg, the NGO Anti-Discrimination Center Memorial (‘ADC Memorial’) takes this opportunity to support all the statements and…