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07.03.2025
Achievements of the advocating women’s rights in Kyrgyzstan: to be continued
The new Labor Code of Kyrgyzstan, which entered into force at the end of January 2025, generally lifted professional bans for women, while maintaining restrictions on certain professions only for pregnant and lactating women. This measure became a success of...Expert of ADC Memorial comments on the plans of the St. Petersburg authorities to detect ethnicity via special set up of facial recognition system
Ukrainian children in the EU become adults: three years in the status of temporary migrants
Anti-Discrimination Center Memorial
Protecting the rights of minorities, migrants, and other vulnerable groups; combating racism, sexism, homophobia, and all forms of xenophobia in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
The Hunt for Fortune Tellers
Those who have attended municipal concerts in local cultural centers near gypsy settlements—or taboras, as they are commonly called by both neighbours and residents—have likely heard a lively rendition of a song with the refrain: “Well, what can I say,...
The Course of Xenophobia: discrimination against migrant children
The State Duma finally passed a shameful bill on the non-admission of non-citizen children to school if they do not have proof of the Russian language competence and the legality of their stay in the Russian Federation. This is presumably...
The Report ‘The right of Indigenous Peoples to their traditional economies’
The analytical materials were submitted to the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples for its future consolidated reports : “Indigenous Peoples right to data, including data collection and disaggregation” and “The right of Indigenous Peoples to their...
KYRGYZSTAN. Insufficient Efforts of the State in Protection of the Rights of Kyrgyzstani Migrants Working Abroad and in Creating Conditions for Employment in the Country
ADC Memorial and Bir Duino–Kyrgyzstan report was created on the eve of the UN Universal Periodic Review, which Kyrgyzstan will proceed in 2025. Human rights defenders draw attention to the insufficient state efforts of Kyrgyzstan to protect its citizens abroad and...
Input for a Thematic Report of the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders Working in Rural and Remoted Areas. Russian Federation. Repressions against independent defenders of the rights of Indigenous peoples
ADC Memorial and ICIPR submitted an input for a thematic report on the situation of human rights defenders working in rural and remote areas. The report is being prepared by the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders to be...
Exploited Lands, Oppressed Peoples: Discrimination and Repression of Indigenous Peoples of Siberia, the North, and the Far East of Russia
February 4, 2025, the European Parliament hosted a discussion “Exploitated Lands, oppressed peoples: discrimination and persecution of the Indigenous peoples of Siberia, the North and the Far East,“ co-organized by Anti–Discrimination Center Memorial Brussels and Rasa Jukneviciene, MEP from Lithuania....
Exploited Lands, Oppressed Peoples: Discrimination and Repression of Indigenous Peoples of Siberia, the North, and the Far East of Russia
“Indigenous peoples in Russia” at the OSCE Human Rights Conference’ 2024
Anti-discrimination and protection of minority rights
Discussion “Opposing Russian Colonial Oppression: Voices of Different Peoples”
Anti-Discrimination Centre Memorial launches the podcast series in English
23.12.2024
Anti-Discrimination Centre Memorial launches the podcast series in English in 2024. The first episode is devoted to Indigenous rights. Our colleague Yana Tannagasheva, a well-known activist and member of the Shor people, an Indigenous group in southern Siberia, told us…