The Second Year of War: Persecution of Migrants in Russia in 2023 From populist statements to restrictions of rights, discrimination, police raids, recruitment for war At least win someone over. Migrantophobia – a new wave Stefania KULAEVA Stateless persons in…
December, 14 is a significant date for the Republic of Karakalpakstan. On this day in 1990, the Supreme Council of the Karakalpak ASSR adopted and signed the Declaration on State Sovereignty of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, and in 1992, the…
International Human Rights Day, December 10, marks the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (2018). In 2023, the 75th anniversary of the Declaration is celebrated, and this year, the United Nations announced the theme of Freedom, equality and…
The 16th UN Forum on Minority Issues was held in Geneva on November 30 – December 1, 2023. This year, the theme of the Forum was «Minorities and Cohesive Societies: Equality, Social Inclusion, and Socio-economic Participation». Recommendations on the outcome…
On 17 November 2023, Russia’s Ministry of Justice filed a lawsuit with the State’s Supreme Court, demanding the recognition of the “international public LGBT movement” as an “extremist organization”. The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and its member organizations,…
On November 20, World Children’s Day is celebrated – as anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child (1959) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989). The UN documents and mechanisms are…
On 20 November, Brussels (Belgium) will host a screening of animated documentaries about Ukrainian children and their stories: how they left Ukraine to escape the war and Russian aggression. These films were created by the Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” in 2022-2023….
After a wave of antisemitic violence surged across the North Caucasus, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and its member organisations, the Anti-Discrimination Centre Memorial (ADC Memorial), the Human Rights Defence Centre Memorial and Citizens’ Watch, urge the Russian…
The Insider published a longread on the situation of Ukrainian Roma living in eastern Ukraine before 2014, after the start of hostilities by Russia in 2014, and after the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022. The article contains…
The Moscow Times: As the events in Dagestan have shown, the latest escalation in the decades-long Israel-Palestine conflict has brought to the surface the many frustrations harbored by members of Russia’s Muslim communities. This now risks exacerbating existing inter-ethnic tensions…
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