The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that it currently works on proposed amendments to Article 4.1 (“General Rules for Assignment of Administrative Penalties”) of the Code of Administrative Offenses, which gives the judges the opportunity to impose softer administrative…
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In line with EU policy of consulting civil society ahead of the event, ADC “Memorial” contributed to the 11th EU and Georgia annual Human Rights Dialogue that took place in Brussels on 25 April 2018 in presence of the EU…
Published the video of the Hearing at the European Parliament “The right to work has no Gender”
On March 6, 2018 the European Parliament held hearings “The right to work without gender discrimination: All Jobs for All Women” on the discrimination of women in the employment sphere in Eastern Europe. The video of the Hearing is published…
Expert of the Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” spoke at a meeting, which the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) held with non-governmental organizations within the framework of the 95th session of the UN CERD, and presented a joint…
Bans on women’s labor persist: Russia ignores international standards and Russian court rulings
Last week the Russian Ministry of Labor published an amended draft of the list of harmful, heavy and dangerous jobs prohibited for women. Despite the fact that it proposed to replace specific professions with the list of hazardous factors of…
Yana and Vladislav Tannagashev, representatives of the Shor indigenous people from South West Siberia, activists from the non-registered organization “Revival of Kazas and Shor people” were forced to leave Russia with their children and applied for refugee status in a…