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On November 23, 2016 the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) holds its consultations with representatives of civil society. The Committee seeks to get a clearer picture of the challenges and problems faced by non-governmental organizations that…

There is a variety of everyday situations involving children, where it is necessary to observe the principle of the best interests of the child, but there is often a dilemma posed. For example, in case of a divorce of parents,…

On November 20 transgender people murdered in hate crimes for their gender identity are being remembered. Documentation of such crimes is extremely difficult. In the majority of cases these crimes are not investigated properly and the perpetrators are not held…

Mr. M., a native of Ukraine, who had a passport of a citizen of the USSR, first contacted ADC “Memorial” back in March 2013, following decision of the Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights (Rospotrebnadzor) decided on “undesirability” of…

St. Petersburg city court has overruled earlier decision on expulsion from Russian Federation to Ukraine of Mr. R.A., a labor migrant and native of Lugansk region of Ukraine, who did not have identity card. Back in April 2016 he was…

2.11.2016 (Paris-Geneva) Joint press-release by FIDH, its member organisation Anti-Discrimination Centre Memorial and World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) Ildar Ildusovich Dadin, civic activist whom Amnesty International declared as prisoner of conscience, was transferred to the Penal Colony No. 7 in…