Poor education, unemployment, poverty, raids, pogroms and other manifestations of racism, arbitrary police behavior, demolition of homes, and lack of documents—this has been the reality for generations of Romani people. These factors not only blend together, but also reinforce one…
In March 2017 ADC Memorial launched the campaign #AllJobs4AllWomen against restrictions on professions for women in Eastern European and Central Asian countries. At that time, gender-related bans on employment affected hundreds of jobs, including prestigious and high-paying jobs, in 10…
Starting 2021, a shorter list of industries, jobs and professional positions prohibited for women will enter into force in Russia. However, diving operations, unfortunately, still feature on the list of these prohibited occupations. In November 2019, an international conference on…
Diving work still features among the jobs prohibited for women in Russia even in the new, shortened list of industries, jobs and occupations prohibited for them, which will come into effect starting 2021. Since her childhood, the heroine of this…
Kazas is the traditional home of the indigenous Shors and is located several hundred meters from a coal mine. The owners of the five homes destroyed by fire were the village’s last residents; they had refused to sell their homes…
To mark International Romani Day, ADC Memorial is publishing the graphic story “Alyona,” which describes what happened when children from a tabor went to school. This story about discrimination in a school is based on actual events recounted to us…
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