Between International Women’s Day (8 March) and International Roma Day (8 April), UNITED network organisation Anti Discrimination Centre Memorial is conducting a special campaign in solidarity with the Roma of Donbass. The Donbass region in the east of Ukraine has…
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It’s utterly sad to see a home destroyed – a place of once happy life, children play and celebration … a manifold of bitter loss when such a home is suddenly and violently destroyed by war. In the photograph :…
Here in 2016, there’s no need for the Romani kids of Slavyansk to hide in shelters. Their homes bear the marks of war, cracks and other structural damage and living in them is still not safe. The children bedroom in…
One year after the ceasefire, Romani children in Donbass still live in ruined homes… #SolidarityRomaUkraine If you want to express your solidarity with the Roma of Donbass and support the campaign, follow the link (click “support”) : https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/38840-solidarityromaukraine
Conference on LGBTI Rights in Ukraine
On March 15-16, 2016 international conference “Problems of LGBT and European Integration” took place in Kyiv. Experts of the Anti-Discrimination Center “Memorial” and Center for Civil Liberties held a joint presentation of their report “Analysis of LGBTI issues in the…
Lydia, a Romani woman from Dzerzinsk (Donetsk region) tells how she tried to hide from artillery fire with 9 grandchildren in a cold, wet and dirty shelter. The conditions were so bad that people could hardly stand them. Meanwhile, nearby…