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Following the recommendations of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination issued just over a year ago, Armenia reported on implementation of measures concerning two priority issues. The experts of the Committee had earlier pointed to an extremely…

The Moldovan authorities submitted a report on the implementation of two priority recommendations made earlier by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD). These concerned the implementation of linguistic rights of ethnic minorities and the improvement of…

The UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) issued its recommendations following consideration of Russia’s state report made at the Committee’s 64th session. Recommendations of the Committee reflected on the problems raised in the alternative coalition report of civil society organizations, in…

The Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” was present at the 64th session of the UN Convention against torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment and raised the issue of inhuman detention conditions of stateless and foreign citizens in SUVSIG….

Following the consideration of the 5th state report of Turkmenistan on the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the United Nations’ Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) has adopted…

181 professions are on the government’s list of jobs that still can’t be occupied by women, a research by Her Rights initiative said. Women cannot work as rescue divers, carpenters, intercity bus drivers, or tanners. Such lists are still in…