The recent sensational legislative initiative aimed against “coming outs” refers to public demonstration of any relations, which the deputies who had proposed this draft law, find “perverted”. Any means are thought to be appropriate for them in order to justify…
In October and December 2015, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) issued two principal decisions on legal appeals vs. Russia concerning unacceptability of extradition from Russia to Kyrgyzstan of the citizens of the latter country. These legal cases were…
Paris, December 22, 2015 – FIDH and ADC “Memorial” welcome the recommendations issued by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) urging the Russian authorities to address the issues of discrimination against migrant women and against…
On December 18, 1990 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families and since then this day is celebrated worldwide as the International Migrants…
FIDH and its member organisation ADC Memorial Press release Paris, 11 December 2015 FIDH and its member organisation “Anti-Discrimination Centre Memorial” strongly condemn the sentence of Russian human rights activist Ildar Dadin to three years in closed detention facility for merely…
Stephania Koulaeva, a historian by education, explains the ever-expanding scope of her human rights work. Her interest was drawn to the memorial movement in Russia: ‘at first from a historical perspective, then from a human rights perspective.’ As a…
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