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If you go into any store on the eve of a new school year, you’ll immediately see stacks of brightly colored notebooks, pencils, and backpacks featuring the hero of the latest popular cartoon. Children and parents will be running agitatedly…

Diving work still features among the jobs prohibited for women in Russia even in the new, shortened list of industries, jobs and occupations prohibited for them, which will come into effect starting 2021. Since her childhood, the heroine of this…

The new list of banned professions for women lifts restrictions in transportation and other spheres, but leaves over 320 of the 456 bans on the existing list in place. ADC Memorial and the campaign #allJobs4AllWomen welcome the first successes for…

The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and its member organizations, Anti-Discrimination Center Memorial and Citizen Watch, urge Russian authorities to release and drop all charges against peaceful protesters and to allow independent candidates to run in next month’s election…

During its 126th session, the UN Human Rights Committee (UN HRC) formulated a list of questions  to assess the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights by Uzbekistan. Members of the UN HRC requested to report on…

The Smolny district court of St. Petersburg issued the final text of its ruling dated March 13, 2019, which stated that an earlier decision concerning A, a citizen of Uzbekistan, which had banned the latter from entering Russia, was recognized…