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How can human rights survive and thrive in the 21st century? Which mechanisms can we create to make states and large corporations respect the fundamental rights of citizens? What can global civil society do today? International Partnership for Human Rights…

Forum 18: Authorities have stripped Russian citizenship from three men jailed for exercising freedom of religion or belief: Muslim Yevgeny Kim in January 2019, and Jehovah’s Witnesses Feliks Makhammadiyev and Konstantin Bazhenov in April 2020. Kim and Makhammadiyev are now…

Human Rights Watch: Russia: As Pandemic Grows, Migration Detention Deadlock (Moscow) – Thousands are stuck in migration detention indefinitely in Russia because the travel restrictions under the Covid-19 epidemic mean that their removal is not imminent, Human Rights Watch said…

The Global Detention Project has launched Covid-19 Global Immigration Detention Platform  to track how states respond to the Covid-19 pandemic. It aims to systematically and comprehensively survey all detaining countries across the globe to report on official action—or, as the case…

The Moscow Times: Svetlana Medvedeva gained national attention after the Samara River Passenger Enterprise refused to hire her because of her gender. With assistance from with the St. Petersburg-based Anti-Discrimination Center Memorial (ADC) NGO, Medvedeva fought a five-year legal battle…

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,…