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On August 15, 2016, an initial seminar on the project “Romani language in Ukraine: linguistic, cultural, social and pedagogical aspects” took place in the Institute of Pedagogy of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine. Books on Romani language…

Kyiv, 12.08.2016 On 10 August, 2016 it was announced that in occupied Crimea the special services of the Russian Federation detained a Ukrainian citizen Evgenii Panov, a bus driver from Zaporizhia oblast. Two days earlier, Russian military equipment was concentrated…

Tristan Tirkia, a stateless person and a native of Georgia, had been imprisoned in the center for detention of foreign nationals in Krasnoye Selo (Leningrad region) for more than a year since February 2015. Conditions of detention in this penitentiary…

Before the consideration of the state report of Ukraine, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination met NGOs who submitted alternative reports to the Committee. In their short statement ADC Memorial and KhPG listed the main issues covered…

August 2 is the International Day of Remembrance of the Romani Holocaust. On the night of August 2-3, 1944 2897 prisoners Zigeunerlager (“Gypsy Camp”) in Auschwitz were killed in gas chambers. Prior to that, on May 16, 1944, an earlier…

Within the preparation for the UN CERD session that will observe the state report on Ukraine in August, 2016, a meeting of NGOs – authors of shadow reports to the CERD and Ukrainian ministries representatives took place in the office…

Protection of civil society The Persecution of Human Rights Defenders and Journalists Must End! Statement of ADC Memorial Overcoming the obstacles created for civil society: response of the international community Olga ABRAMENKO “Antiterrorism” and “anti-extremism” as means of suppressing civil…

The UN Committee to Eliminate Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) has compiled a list of questions related to Armenia’s state report on the situation of women in the country, which will be considered during the Committee’s 65th Session. These questions include…

Russia’s Supreme Court overturned earlier court ruling concerning the expulsion from Russia of Isfandier Aralov, a student from Tajikistan. Aralov was a student of agricultural college in Leningrad region and back in August 2015 was found guilty of illegally working…

Civil society faces various difficulties in many countries of the world: various states use a different means to complicate the work of NGOs and independent human rights defenders, journalists, lawyers and experts. Sometimes the authorities act boldly and simply do…