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On November 23, 2016 the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) holds its consultations with representatives of civil society. The Committee seeks to get a clearer picture of the challenges and problems faced by non-governmental organizations that…

There is a variety of everyday situations involving children, where it is necessary to observe the principle of the best interests of the child, but there is often a dilemma posed. For example, in case of a divorce of parents,…

Stefania Kulayeva As time goes by, more and more new details become known of how police stormed a house where two desperate students barricaded themselves with a gun in the village of Strugi Krasnye in the Pskov region. It turned…

On November 20 transgender people murdered in hate crimes for their gender identity are being remembered. Documentation of such crimes is extremely difficult. In the majority of cases these crimes are not investigated properly and the perpetrators are not held…

Mr. M., a native of Ukraine, who had a passport of a citizen of the USSR, first contacted ADC “Memorial” back in March 2013, following decision of the Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights (Rospotrebnadzor) decided on “undesirability” of…

St. Petersburg city court has overruled earlier decision on expulsion from Russian Federation to Ukraine of Mr. R.A., a labor migrant and native of Lugansk region of Ukraine, who did not have identity card. Back in April 2016 he was…

2.11.2016 (Paris-Geneva) Joint press-release by FIDH, its member organisation Anti-Discrimination Centre Memorial and World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) Ildar Ildusovich Dadin, civic activist whom Amnesty International declared as prisoner of conscience, was transferred to the Penal Colony No. 7 in…

Death of little Umarali Nazarov: case closed, questions remain Press-release by ADC Memorial Central Asia : The ordeal of migrant workers and their families Supreme Court overruled expulsion of Tajik student from Russia ADC “Memorial” achieved release of stateless person…

Alternative report of the Civil Society Institute and Anti-discrimination Centre Memorial prepared for the 65th Session of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, 2016. The authors would like to thank New Generation, PINK Armenia, and Mission Armenia…

As you may know, in April this year the Russian president signed a decree on the merger of the Federal Migration Service (FMS) with the Interior Ministry. In accordance with this decree, FMS was abolished as a separate agency and…