Today marks the International Day for Tolerance. ZAKS.Ru gives opinions on whether our city is more tolerant nowadays. The representatives of national communities and experts, including from ADC “Memorial” give their opinions. They beat less, but tolerance did not increase. http://www.zaks.ru (the…
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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights meets with human rights activists in St. Petersburg
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
In Petersburg the independent Uzbek newspaper “Petersburg Ouse” has started to leave. The edition is addressed not only numerous Uzbek diaspora, but also other townspeople. The newspaper is issued in two languages – Russian and Uzbek. On Radio “Liberty” materials.
Upon starting work at school №9, teachers begin to learn the previously unknown to them Roma language straight away. This is necessary, since a large number of Roma pupils attend this school. On January 30th, the school held a seminar…
The presentation of «Roma in Russia – romantic myths on the background of total discrimination»
The presentation of «Roma in Russia – romantic myths on the background of total discrimination» by Stefania Kulaeva and Olga Abramenko in the frame of the fifth public seminar of the Centre for Independent Social Research «Research of ethnicity, migration, and…