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Labor migrant rights is the most important aspect of the relations between the Russian Federation and the countries from whence the millions of labor migrants it receives originate. This theme should be at the top of the agenda at any…

The alternative report submitted by ADC Memorial and “Human Rights Movement: Bir Duino –Kyrgyzstan” contains an analysis of the violations of the rights of labor migrants by employers and recruitment agencies, as well as the violation of the rights of the labor migrants’…

The annexation of Crimea by Russia and the ensuing military conflict in southeastern Ukraine have shaped Russia’s civic and political climate over the past year. The Russian media is waging a massive military propaganda campaign, хenophobia and hostility toward “Western…

In March 2015 amendments to the law on non-governmental organizations, which make it possible to exclude NGOs from the register of “foreign agents” and which were long sought by moderate critics of the law on NGOs, finally came into force….

The decision by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Kim v. Russia has strategic significance for similar cases involving the detention with a view toward expulsion of stateless persons in a SUVSIG. No country will accept them, which renders…

Welcome to the website of ADC “Memorial”. We would like to invite you to learn more about our activities: how we work to overcome discrimination of minorities and protection of the rights of migrants in the countries, which formerly were…

At the 113th Session of the UN Committee on Human Rights the 7th periodic report of the Russian government on the implementation of articles of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights by the Russian Federation will be discussed….

ADC “Memorial” has prepared a list of issues and themes pertaining to discrimination against women from particularly vulnerable groups, such as Roma women, migrant women, LGBT women, and Muslim women. This list has been prepared in anticipation of the 62nd…

On the day of the funeral of Boris Nemtsov – a bold and consistent critic of the Russian authorities, who was killed near the Kremlin by gunshots in the back (the murderer, of course, disappeared without a trace and it…

In their struggle against various forms of discrimination human rights defenders treat discrimination of HIV-positive people as a special problem, which requires attention. This issue constitutes a sort of the intersection of several forms of accentuated stigmatization and discrimination: it…