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We address the topic about the “Roma and Mass media” not for the first time, we have organized awareness raising events specially for journalists. In April 2006 in cooperation with the European Centre for Roma Rights we held a training-seminar…

When dealing with the protection of Roma rights, you get to know a lot, not only about Roma themselves — so lively and unusual, — but also about the creative people who are interested in them: painters, photographers and writers,…

On 30th of May 2007 the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination,xenophobia and related intolerance, Mr. Doudou Diene has submitted a report to the UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL about his mission in the RUSSIAN FEDERATION for the…

We were off on a new journey. This time it was our northern capital, Pskov, Izborsk and Pushkinskiye Gory that expected us. We were 20: eight children and two volunteers from the Centre for education and adaptation for children of…

In the last few years the number of children from national minorities has increased in Russian schools. Some children have two native tongues, if the parents come from different cultures and want their child to know both languages.

What are children’s rights and how do they differ from the adult’s rights?  What is the difference between ‘Human Rights’ and ‘Rights of the Child’?  Not every person is a child, but every child is a person.  Moreover, every person either once was…