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…
GENEVA (31 July 2017) – The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this afternoon held an informal meeting with civil society representatives from the Russian Federation, whose report will be considered this week. In her opening remarks, Anastasia Crickley,…
Seeking asylum and obtaining refugee status in Russia is notoriously difficult, and the country is often criticized by rights defenders for not doing enough. Even though Russia adopted the UN mandate on refugees, which means it is duty-bound to accept them, a…
France Inter about the campaign #StopLGBTpersecution in CHECHNYA and DONBAS
by Stephania Kulaeva, Director of ADC Memorial On 23 May 2017, the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation issued a decision in the case of Noé Mskhiladze, which mandates strict judicial control and oversight over the length of the detention…
C. : On se retrouve dans une situation totalement paradoxale où la Russie – pays qui a illustré, il y a quelques années, son homophobie dans une loi « anti-propagande gay » – se retrouve à jouer le gendarme sur le sujet dans…
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