Side event 03.10.2022, 17:00 – 18:00, Hotel Sofitel, Meeting Room 2 Saski Discrimination of the Indigenous peoples of Siberia and Far East was not widely known until the beginning of so-called “partial mobilization” in Russia; now the rights of Indigenous…
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04.10.2022, 17:00 – 18:00, Sofitel Hotel, Meeting Room 5 Opera In recent years, Central Asian countries have experienced a number of conflicts involving ethnic minorities. As a rule, the authorities consider them to be caused by day-to-day and economic discord,…
No to the Illegal Recruitment of Mercenaries and Mobilization of Reservists for a Criminal War!
On September 21, International Day of Peace, the Russian government announced a partial mobilization: Reservists will receive orders to report to a military recruiting station for transfer to the front to continue the criminal war in Ukraine. At the same…
Polit.ru published an interview with Roman Kiselyov, head of legal programs at the Moscow Helsinki Group, about the situation of Ukrainians stuck in Russian Centres for the Temporary Detention of Foreign Nationals (CTDFN) because of the war. Expulsion and deportations…
The UN is concerned about the plight of children with disabilities affected by the war in Ukraine
Before the start of the military conflict, more than 160,000 children with disabilities lived in Ukraine. According to the National Health Service of Ukraine, 105 thousand of them were in boarding schools. It is known that by the end of…
Solidarity and Mutual Aid: A Study on the Evacuation of Persons with Disabilities from War Zones
The newspaper «День» (day.kyiv.ua) published preliminary results of a sociological study of the evacuation of people with disabilities in Ukraine, conducted by the organization Fight For Right/Борьба за права людей с инвалидностью. This summer, the organization conducted 20 in-depth expert…