The issue includes theses from the European Parliament debate ‘Opposing Russian Colonial Oppression: Voices of Different Peoples’; the Russian state’s usurpation of the ‘ethnic agenda’ and persecution in Bashkortostan; the difficult situation of minorities in Central Asia; the war-time reality of the Roma of Ukraine; an overview of the situation of LGBTIQ+ people in Eastern Europe and Central Asia; and the successes of ADC Memorial and its partners in the struggle for the abolition of women’s labor restrictions in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

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Opposing Russian Colonial Oppression: Voices of Different Peoples

The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child: Russia should not discriminate children from vulnerable groups. A joint press-release of ADC Memorial Brussels and International Committee of Indigenous Peoples of Russia

The autonomy without autonomy Olga Abramenko

The annual UN Forum on Minority Issues: ADC Memorial raised the issues of minorities in the region of Eastern Europe
and Central Asia

The situation in Karakalpakstan raises concern to international experts

Reaction of international bodies to the situation in GBAO (Tajikistan) in 2023

Roma of Ukraine: a new meaning of the word “Hope”. A publication dated to the International Roma Day on April 8, 2024 Vira GRUZOVA

May 17 – The International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia

#AllJobs4AllWomen: How ADC Memorial and its partners successfully advocate for the abolition of women’s labor restrictions in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Recommendations of the UN CEDAW to Tajikistan: to stop the persecution of women – human rights defenders and journalists, to ensure the women’s right to work without discrimination

Freedom to Human Rights defender Maxim Butkevich!