Press release Despite a number of important achievements in combating discrimination, such as the adoption of anti-discrimination legislation, legal recognition of the rights of Crimean Tatars, plans to improve the situation of the Roma population, the situation of many ethnic…
The report prepared by Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” and Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” and Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group have been closely monitoring the violation of the rights of vulnerable ethnic minorities in the situation of armed…
Human rights defenders in the Russian Federation are facing persecution from all sides—they are being listed in the “foreign agents register” and distracted from their work by checks, trials, and fines. At the same time, independent media outlets are being…
Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” submitted to UN CRC an alternative report 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….
Children’s rights issues have been trending in Russian media and on social networks after yet another scandalous statement by child rights ombudsman, Pavel Astakhov – this time, swiftly followed by his resignation. Astakhov had already made sensationally boorish remarks about…
Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” submitted to UN CRC an alternative report 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….
Over the past two years, the LGBT communities in Crimea and in the part of the Donbass not controlled by Ukraine found themselves under the rule of new laws. Experts of the Anti-discrimination Center “Memorial” interviewed members of gay communities…
Fisker, kaptein, togfører eller feier. Dette er noen av 456 jobber som kvinner ikke får ha i Russland. Read the article
The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) published its conclusions concerning implementation of recommendations on improvement of the legislation in the Russian Federation. Thus, the Commission has responded to the official Russian report, which had been submitted in 2013…
The human rights report was prepared with support from the Center for Civil Liberties (Ukraine) Dozens of witnesses to the events of recent years in Crimea and Eastern Ukraine were interviewed for this report. Many of them spoke about the…
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