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It is rather obvious who is to blame: the Russian government is to blame for the war, disaster, devastation, thousands of dead and millions who have lost their homes. But what’s worse and feels bitter is that the Russian society,…

  In December last year I visited Donetsk region in Ukraine once again (the towns of Slavyansk, Kramatorsk and Dzerzhinsk) in order to see how half a year of war had changed the life of the local population, especially the…

Since the discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) attitudes towards people with HIV both on the part of the state authorities and the general public in many countries of the world has been changing – from complete rejection, stigmatization…

In October and December 2015, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) issued two principal decisions on legal appeals vs. Russia concerning unacceptability of extradition from Russia to Kyrgyzstan of the citizens of the latter country. These legal cases were…

Paris, December 22, 2015 – FIDH and ADC “Memorial” welcome the recommendations issued by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) urging the Russian authorities to address the issues of discrimination against migrant women and against…

On December 18, 1990 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families and since then this day is celebrated worldwide as the International Migrants…

FIDH and its member organisation ADC Memorial Press release Paris, 11 December 2015 FIDH and its member organisation “Anti-Discrimination Centre Memorial” strongly condemn the sentence of Russian human rights activist Ildar Dadin to three years in closed detention facility for merely…

  Russian State Duma has hastily passed a new law abolishing obligatory execution of rulings passed by international legal institutions, stating that the Russian Constitutional Court and the president of the Russian Federation are now to decide whether Russian citizens…

  Stephania Koulaeva, a historian by education, explains the ever-expanding scope of her human rights work. Her interest was drawn to the memorial movement in Russia: ‘at first from a historical perspective, then from a human rights perspective.’ As a…

On 24-25 November, 2015 the UN Forum on Minority Issues, a special event held within the framework of the UN Special Rapporteur on minorities, took place in Geneva. The eighth session of the Forum was devoted to the challenges faced…