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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…

ADC “Memorial” with the information support of “Her Rights” center presented alternative report on discrimination against women in Belarus. Expert of ADC “Memorial” reported on these problems at a meeting of members of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination…

Statement of Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” on the implementation by the Russian Federation of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography 75th UN CRC pre-session, October…

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…