On September 15, 2017, the Samara District Court completed its review of the case of Svetlana Medvedeva v. the Samara River Passenger Enterprise. The court found that the internationally-recognized ban on discrimination against women means that women cannot be denied…
Promo-LEX Association and ADC Memorial submitted their joint reports to the 62 Session of the UN Committee on the Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and to the 76 Session of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. The…
ADC Memorial, CrimeaSOS, and FIDH welcome the Concluding Observations and Recommendations of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), which were released following the Committee’s recent 93rd session. The recommendations reflected the issues raised in an alternative…
A trial that opens today and sees a 31-year-old female navigation officer sue a Russian shipping company who refused to employ her as a ship’s captain, represents a landmark challenge to Russia’s sexist and outdated labour regulations, said Amnesty International….
The Independent: The state deems them to be too ‘dangerous’ or ‘harmful’ to their reproductive health
ADC Memorial welcomes the concluding observations and recommendations of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination for Tajikistan, following the 93rd session of CERD UN, 31 July – 11 August 2017. The problems raised in the alternative report…
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