Ahead of the 92th session of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in April 2017, where Armenia’s and Moldova’s official reports will be considered, ADC “Memorial” in partnership with the Civil Society Institute (Armenia) and PromoLEX (Moldova)…
Après les révélations parues le 1er avril dans le journal russe Novaïa Gazeta sur les graves violences infligées à des homosexuels en Tchétchénie, la Fédération internationale des droits de l’Homme (FIDH) interpelle Vladimir Poutine via l’une de ses organisations membres….
The bits and pieces of information on the persecution of gay people in Chechnya that trickled down to the media scare one with the scale, purposefulness and somewhat radical brutality of violence against the victims. At the same time…
Press-release of ADC “Memorial” for International Romani Day The situation of the Roma minorities in post-Soviet countries remains difficult: problems, which are rooted in the ethnic policies of the USSR have not yet been overcome. The ban on the nomadic…
FIDH and its member organisation Anti-Discrimination Centre Memorial (ADC Memorial) express their full confidence in reliability of information provided by their long-term partner Russian LGBT Network who confirmed the facts of kidnapping, unlawful detentions, torture and killings of men suspected…
The festive “Women’s Day” is over and the gloomy days of late winter follow one after another, as March in Russia has the same distant relation to real spring as women’s rights have little to do with a strange tradition…
Paris-Saint-Petersbourg FIDH and its member organisation Anti-Discrimination Centre (ADC) Memorial denounce arrests of women who came out in Saint Petersburg on International Women’s Day on 8 March 2017 for an impromptu demonstration (or walk) to support the fight of women…
The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation invalidated the ban on the work of flight attendants for people with positive HIV status. In a separate ruling, Basmanny district court of Moscow illegalized the decision to ban entry to the Russian…
Tverskoy district court of Moscow ruled in favor of Mr. A., a citizen of the Republic of Uzbekistan, who had earlier made a legal appeal against the decision of the Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human…
March 8 is the day of working women’s rights, a fact frequently forgotten in former Soviet countries, where the fight for worker’s rights and equality between men and women has been supplanted by flowers, gifts, and treats for “dear ladies.”…
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