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Marking International Migrants Day, 18 December Press Release When the Commonwealth of Independent States was created on the ruins of the former Soviet Union in December 1991, it was hard to guess that one of the most visible results of…

 Joint press-release Brussels-Paris-Saint-Petersburg, 13 December 2016. FIDH and its member organisations Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” and Citizen Watch denounce the illegal arrest and torture in police station of photojournalist David Frenkel, well known for his documentary photo reports on civil society…

It is with great sorrow that we report on the loss on December 5, 2016 of Sergey Khakhayev (b. 1938), who has been the chairman of St. Petersburg Association “Memorial” for many years. He was a political prisoner in the…

by Stephania Kulaeva from the magazine of ILGA-Europe Destination>>EQUALITY autumn 2016 I met Arthur (the name is changed) when he was 19 – and he was glowing with his bright smile, white shirt, blue-black hair and a beautiful dark face….

Each year the UN Forum on Minority Issues gathers together representatives of civil society, official representatives of different countries and the staff of the United Nations human rights institutions. The topic of UNs 9th Forum on Minority Issues, which took…

Joint press-release FIDH and its member organisations ADC Memorial and Civil Society Institute (Armenia) Comments on the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women findings on Armenia and Belarus Brussels-Erevan-Paris, 22 November 2016. The UN Committee on the…