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In 2009, the mayor of Sochi made anti-Gypsy remarks but was never held accountable under criminal or civil laws, declares a Roma activist Alexander Klein, who is preparing to file a claim against the mayor with the UN Committee on…

On November 9, 2011 a human rights report “Tajikistan: export of labour – at what price?” was presented in the press-club “Zelenaya lampa” (Green lamp) in St Petersburg. This report is a result of collaboration between the investigating mission of…

Andrei Yakimov, a worker of the Anti-Discrimination centre “Memorial”, participated in the talk-show “Kipyatok” (Boiling water) on the 100TV channel. The issue of labour migration from the Central Asia to Russia was the main topic of the show.

An artcile about the visit of the ombudsman to the Roma settlement in Shagol, Chelyabinsk region, was published in the regional newspaper. Human rights activist, Nadezhda Kutepova, cooperates with ADC Memorial within the project “Legal help to Roma settlements in…

On February 18, 2011 the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navanethem (Navi) Pillay, met with NGO activists in Saint Petersburg. The key problems such as abuse of the right to the freedom of assembly, hate crimes and negative state’s attitude…

The French Internet blog devoted to a problem of violence in the Russian Federation, has published article about infringement of the rights of labor migrants, on materials of monitoring spent ADC Memorial http://russiaviolence.hypotheses.org/1286