On September 20th, 2017, you are invited to join a discussion on employment discrimination against women in a number of professions and the need to cancel “lists of professions and occupations harmful and dangerous to women.” This discussion will take…
On September 15, 2017, the Samara District Court completed its review of the case of Svetlana Medvedeva v. the Samara River Passenger Enterprise. The court found that the internationally-recognized ban on discrimination against women means that women cannot be denied…
Promo-LEX Association and ADC Memorial submitted their joint reports to the 62 Session of the UN Committee on the Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and to the 76 Session of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. The…
Following the arrest of the famous Russian theatre director Kirill Serebrennikov, there started a game of guessing about what had caused his persecution. It was often suggested that the director himself brought trouble onto himself by receiving government funds for…
ADC Memorial, CrimeaSOS, and FIDH welcome the Concluding Observations and Recommendations of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), which were released following the Committee’s recent 93rd session. The recommendations reflected the issues raised in an alternative…
A trial that opens today and sees a 31-year-old female navigation officer sue a Russian shipping company who refused to employ her as a ship’s captain, represents a landmark challenge to Russia’s sexist and outdated labour regulations, said Amnesty International….
The Independent: The state deems them to be too ‘dangerous’ or ‘harmful’ to their reproductive health
ADC Memorial welcomes the concluding observations and recommendations of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination for Tajikistan, following the 93rd session of CERD UN, 31 July – 11 August 2017. The problems raised in the alternative report…
St. Petersburg city court considered legal appeal lodged by lawyer Olga Tseitlina, who was supported by ADC “Memorial”. The court reviewed an earlier court ruling concerning a native of Ukraine, who had been ordered to be expelled from Russia. City…
For the upcoming 27th session of the UN Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (CMW) ADC “Memorial” has pointed to various issues that are of utmost importance to the migrant…
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