The annual issue of ADC Memorial’s human rights bulletin ” Anti-Discrimination” has been published. The issue focuses on violations of the rights of groups vulnerable to discrimination: Crimean Tatars, Ukrainian Roma, migrant workers, representatives of indigenous peoples of the Russian…
At the 91st session of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (April 12-13, 2023), the state report of the Russian Federation on the implementation of the relevant Convention was considered. In their Concluding Observations, the Committee’s experts…
Statement of Anti-Discrimination Centre Memorial the 87th Pre-Sessional Working Group of the UN CEDAW, 30 May 2023 Dear Committee Members, Speaking about discrimination of women in employment, we note the formal abolishment of occupational bans for women in the Labor…
In an effort to reach recruitment targets for its war in Ukraine, Russia has been attempting to coerce or force foreign migrants to fight. Authorities and private military companies have attempted to enlist foreigners in migration offices, workplaces, prisons, worker…
In 2022, Russian courts imposed fines ìn amount of nearly two million rubles under the article concerning the dissemination of information related to LGBTQ to minors. Fourteen individuals, one legal entity, and one official were convicted by the courts. In…
This submission highlights Human Rights Watch’s key concerns regarding the Russian government’s compliance with its international obligations since its last Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in 2018. From that time through 2021, the government relentlessly attacked civic activism and independent journalism,…
21.05.2023, 17.30–19.30 Rue de l’Épée 2, Bruxelles L’Ascenseur, café associatif et radio Dear friends, we invite you to take part in a meeting of solidarity with the political prisoners who are now imprisoned in Russia and Belarus. We will tell…
Russia’s recent appearances at UN bodies have prompted a sharp reaction: Over 50 countries condemned the invitation of Children’s Rights Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova to an informal meeting of the Security Council on April 5 and blocked the official live feed of…
Based on the results of the consideration of the state report at the 109th session, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination addressed its recommendations to the authorities of Tajikistan. They respond to the problems raised in the…
April 28, 2023The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), has received new information and requests your urgent intervention in the following…
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