Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” supports the candidacy of Igor Kochetkov for the position of Human Rights Commissioner of St. Petersburg. The priorities of Kochetkov’s human rights program– implementation of a complex, anti-discriminatory, regional law in St. Petersburg and the fight against…
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On the April 5th, 2012, a press conference devoted to the issue of discrimination of Roma people will take place in Moscow. Representatives of authorities distract attention of the publicity from real problems by false accusations and persecutions of Roma…
The participants of the round-table discussion discussed a wide range of issues: the problem of legal defense of the victims of Nazi violence, implementation of anti-extremist legislation and understanding “hate crimes”, the problem of homophobia and discrimination of the minorities….
ADC “Memorial” and attorney Malankovsky saved the Roma settlements in the Tula region from demolition: The project for protection of residents of the Roma settlements, developed by ADC “Memorial” five years ago, saved 13 homes in the Tula region from…
Language courses for migrants
The State Duma is considering a bill “On Amending the Federal Law of the Legal Status of Foreign citizens in the Russian Federation” (Article 13.1, paragraph 3, item 5 and paragraph 7,1, item 6), requiring migrants to obtain a work…
A training workshop on administrative cases
A training workshop, aimed at preparing defence attorneys to represent the interests of civil activists, who are being prosecuted for administrative violations, will take place in Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” on March 16 at 18:00 at the following location: 7th Krasnoarmeiskaya…
For more than a century, March 8 has been considered to be a day of equality of women and men, a day to fight for gender rights. In the Russian Federation (as previously in the USSR), this day is marked…
It has already been three months since ADC “Memorial” had begun its work on the project “Protection of the rights of civil activists.” Since December, 2011, many individuals, including those who were illegally arrested during the protests after the Parliamentary…
ADC “Memorial” received an appeal for help from G.S. – an activist, who was arrested in Kostroma and accused of violating the law on holding public events (she was arrested during a series of single-person pickets against the passing of…
On November 25th, 2011, the world learned of the harsh, politically motivated prison sentence handed down by a Belarusian court to Ales Bialiatski, vice president of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and head of Viasna Human Rights Center….