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Here in 2016, there’s no need for the Romani kids of Slavyansk to hide in shelters. Their homes bear the marks of war, cracks and other structural damage and living in them is still not safe. The children bedroom in…

One year after the ceasefire, Romani children in Donbass still live in ruined homes… #SolidarityRomaUkraine If you want to express your solidarity with the Roma of Donbass and support the campaign, follow the link (click “support”) : https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/38840-solidarityromaukraine

Dyumen “took” Crimea two years ago. Now he’s “taking” a Roma settlement in Plekhanovo It’s all happened before, of course: Gas and electricity are disconnected. Frozen Roma mothers and grandmothers wail and curse in desperation. OMON troops, SWAT teams and…

On March 15-16, 2016 international conference “Problems of LGBT and European Integration” took place in Kyiv. Experts of the Anti-Discrimination Center “Memorial” and Center for Civil Liberties held a joint presentation of their report “Analysis of LGBTI issues in the…

Lydia, a Romani woman from Dzerzinsk (Donetsk region) tells how she tried to hide from artillery fire with 9 grandchildren in a cold, wet and dirty shelter. The conditions were so bad that people could hardly stand them. Meanwhile, nearby…

ADC Memorial’s legal proceedings (that have lasted for more than 3 years), successfully proved that the practice of listing certain professions prohibited for women in the Russian Federation is discriminatory.  This concerns the 456 professions in 38 fields of work…

In towns like Kramatorsk, Slavyansk and Dzerzhinsk, the shelter sometimes was the one and only hope to survive. Unfortunately, shelters proved not to be for everybody : in some places there simply was a lack of space , in others…

‪#‎SolidarityRomaUkraine‬ Romni in Dzerzhinsk (on the border with the so-called DNR)are trying to make a living by peeling nuts. Girls are helping their mother. Roma families from Dzerzhinsk try to earn their living by gathering nuts in the woods, peeling…

Romni in Dzerzhinsk (on the border with the so-called DNR)are trying to make a living by peeling nuts. Girls are helping their mother. Roma families from Dzerzhinsk try to earn their living by gathering nuts in the woods, peeling them…

ADC Memorial starts the campaign of solidarity with Roma of Donbass who had suffered from the war and pogroms, who now live in destroyed houses and face lack of resourses, who are not safe, who don’t know what could happen…