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
Freedom to Human Rights defender Maxim Butkevich!