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The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (UN CERD) published its assessment of the situation of the Shor people in the Kemerovo region as part of continued review of the situation in Russia. The Committee noted that despite…

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (UN CERD) has published its assessment of discrimination against Crimean Tatars in the Russia-controlled Crimean peninsula and Russia’s compliance with the Committee’s previous recommendations published in 2017. The Committee’s experts once…

On December 23, 2019, Vsevolozhsk city court (Leningrad Region), after having examined the application of lawyer Yuri Serov, ruled to release two stateless persons who had been held in a centre for temporary detention of foreign nationals for a long…

The Christian Science Monitor: Svetlana Medvedeva spent years studying for her chosen profession, Volga River boat captain, before she hit a roadblock in the form of a law she had never heard of. Ms. Medvedeva had the necessary degree, training,…

The European Parliament reiterated that the ‘foreign agent’ legislation violated the international human rights obligations of the Russian Federation and called the government to annul it. The recent amendments about the persons-‘foreign agents’ are vague, contradict the principles of legal…

Topics related to the situation of vulnerable groups were included on the list of questions addressed to the Ukrainian government during the 127th session of the UN Human Rights Committee. In assessing the level of representation of women in political…