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For the 65th session of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Dicrimination against Women, ADC Memorial with the assistance of Her Rights Center submitted alternative report “Discrimination against Women in the Employment Sphere in Belarus”.

As it became known, on October 20, 2016 decision was adopted to dismiss the criminal case initiated last year following the death of 5-month old Umarali Nazarov. Investigators concluded that the “criminal event” in this case was “missing”. From the…

On October 11, 2016 the European Court of Human Rights made a chamber judgment in the case of “Bagdonavicius and Others v. Russia” (№ 19841/06). Thirty three representatives of Roma community, who lived in the village of Dorozhnoye (Guryev district…

In mid-summer 2016 the law “On the basis of the system of crime prevention” came into force. If understood literally, this law should be useful for prevention of crime and protection of people in difficult situations, such as homeless or…

Inessa Sakhno Over a period of about a month and a half during autumn 2016 in some countries the admissibility of abortion has been repeatedly opposed to public morality, and the woman’s right to choose was opposed to the right…

Vepkhviya Sordia died 8th of October in a hospital in Saint Petersburg, one day after his release from detention centre for foreigners (SUVSIG), where he was kept for a second time for almost a year. The lawyer of Mr. Sordia…

For the 65th session of the UN Committee on Elimination of Dicrimination against Women, ADC Memorial submitted two alternative reports; a report “Discrimination against Women from Vulnerable Groups in Armenia” was prepared in partnership with the Civil Society Institute, a…

Andrei Paluda, coordinator of the campaign Human Rights Defenders against the Death Penalty in Belarus, took part in the working session “Tolerance and non-discrimination, including Roma and Sinti issues, including implementation of the OSCE Action Plan on Improving the Situation…

Belgian “ZiZo magazine” about the report of ADC Memorial “Violation of LGBT Rights in Crimea and Donbass: The Problem of Homophobia in Territories Beyond Ukraine’s Control”. Een Russische en een Oekraïense organisatie hebben samen een rapport gepubliceerd over holebi- en…

Side Event of the Anti-Discrimination Centre Memorial during the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in the OSCE (Warsaw) September 28, 2016, 13.15 – 14.45, Plenary Session Hall Reproductive Rights in Post-Soviet Countries: Motherhood cannot be Imposed or Restricted by the Government…