Roundtable discussions on the problems of migrant workers coming from neighboring countries were held on May 30, 2016 in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, as part of the project of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH). The discussion was…
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Migrants: presumed guilty
Recently the Russian media has seen yet another surge of “anti-immigrant” publications, which were centered, as it already became usual, around criminal news. The story, which was discussed most loudly, was dubbed “the massacre at Khovanskoye cemetery” or “the battle…
On May 18, 2016 OSCE held a consultation meeting in Tbilisi on “The situation of Roma and related groups in the South Caucasus and Central Asia Regions”. Experts of ADC “Memorial” first spoke about the necessity of such a meeting…
May 17. On International Day Against Homophobia, the Anti-Discrimination Centre Memorial and the Ukrainian human rights organization Center for Civil Liberties consider it necessary to express their solidarity with all people facing discrimination on the basis of their sexual orientation…
Two-year long fight for the right to education: disabled person gets compensation for moral damages
Andrey Sosnov, a disabled person with vision impairment, who had been illegally denied the right to study at the internship program at the psychiatry faculty of the Saint Petersburg scientific and research psycho-neurological institute named after Bekhterev, finally received compensation…
Pavlensky believes otherwise
For many years now, volunteers, “Memorial” activists and historians have sought to preserve the memory of places of death and suffering of millions of victims of Stalinist repression in Russia. In most cases, this has been done at their own…
This report concerns the violations of the rights of stateless persons and foreign citizens placed in the specialized institutions for the temporary detention of foreign citizens (SITDFNs) by Russian courts in order to “guarantee their expulsion from the RF”. In…
This report concerns the violations of the rights of stateless persons and foreign citizens placed in the specialized institutions for the temporary detention of foreign citizens (SITDFNs) by Russian courts in order to “guarantee their expulsion from the RF”. In…
Precarious work, or agency labor, is a kind of “leasing” of workers: under these types of contract recruitment or employment agencies provide workers, who are officially employed by the employment agency, to other companies (in this case the workers enter…
Bulletin № 53, April 2016
The Self-Government Body of the Crimean Tatar People must not be Banned Campaign in solidarity with the Roma of Donbass Roma Woes as a Reflection of the Political Course Stefania KULAEVA Life safety is a universal right with no exceptions…