Feedback GENEVA (31 July 2017) – The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this afternoon held an informal meeting with civil society representatives from the Russian Federation, whose report will be considered this week. In her opening remarks, Anastasia Crickley,…
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Seeking asylum and obtaining refugee status in Russia is notoriously difficult, and the country is often criticized by rights defenders for not doing enough. Even though Russia adopted the UN mandate on refugees, which means it is duty-bound to accept them, a…
ADC “Memorial” supported alternative report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination regarding discrimination against indigenous peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East of the Russian Federation. The report was prepared by the International Work…
On July 24th 2017, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation approved the appeal lodged by Svetlana Medvedeva and called for a retrial in the case of the refusal from the Samara river passenger company to hire the woman as…
Press release Paris – Moscow – Kyiv – Geneva, 14 July 2017. ADC Memorial, CrimeaSOS and SOVA Center, together with FIDH (International Federation for Human Rights) reported to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) blatant problems…
This report by the ADC Memorial examines the problems faced by some of Tajikistan’s ethnic minorities who (unlike, for instance, Uzbeks, or Kyrgyz, or Russians who also live in Tajikistan) do not have their own state: Jughi, Pamiri, and Yaghnobi….