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The Independent: The state deems them to be too ‘dangerous’ or ‘harmful’ to their reproductive health

St. Petersburg city court has upheld an earlier court decision and refused to open a criminal investigation into the death of a 5-month-old Tajik baby Umarali Nazarov, who had died in a hospital where he had been sent from a…

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) started to consider 9-11 periodic reports of Tajikistan for 2012-2015 on the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. At the same time, the…

In an intervention to the European Court of Human Rights in a case against Russia, the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) has called on the Court to explicitly rule that that the rights to freedom of expression and association include…

GENEVA (7 August 2017) – The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this morning held an informal meeting with civil society representatives from Ecuador and Tajikistan, whose reports will be considered this week. In her opening remarks, Anastasia Crickley,…

HRW: ‘I Only Wish I Could Exchange My Life for Another’ It’s significant that hostility towards LGBT people was acknowledged as a motivating factor precisely because hate crimes are a serious issue in Russia, and something that the United Nations…