On June 1-2, 2012 in Stockholm there was a conference “Empowerment of Roma women” organized by NGO “Neve gindoske zuvlia» (New Thinking Women’s Network). Women from Romani communities of Sweden (Kelderash, Lovari, Finska Roma) who work in the field of…
On 24 May ADC ‘Memorial’ invites all people of free will to participate in the picket in defence of a political prisoner, human rights activist and candidate for Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 2012. The picket will take place from…
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay made a video message on The International Day Against Homophobia. This year this speech is especially actual for Russia. ADC ‘Memorial’ considers adoption of discriminative laws and practices unacceptable, as…
On May 18-19 in ADC ‘Memorial’ a conference ‘Legal possibilities of defence of Roma people’s rights in Russia’ will take place. Lawyers from different regions (participants from Krasnoyarsk, Omsk, Chelyabinsk, Belgorod, Kaliningrad, Ryazan, Volgograd, Sochi are invited), with whom ADC…
United Nations Human Rights Committee communicated the complaint about political persecution of a human rights activist Philipp Kostenko which was lodged by lawyers Olga Tseitlina and Sergey Golubok from ADC ‘Memorial’ after putting the activist under second administrative arrest in…
The European Court of Human Rights recognized lack of effective independent investigation on death of Roma woman in Pskov police station and awarded her husband and son a compensation. 3 May 2012 the European Court of Human Rights pronounced judgement…
ADC Memorial supports LGBT activists arrested at the demonstration on the May 1st. Human rights organisaton Anti-discrimination centre Memorial helps victims of all kinds of discrimination, provides legal help to civil activists, especially to those who are persecuted and illegally…
Legal rights activists informed the president about the problem of violation of freedom of assembly, illegal anti-extremism and political repressions in Russia and Belarus. The members of the Human Rights Council handed to Dmitry Medvedev the appeal in defence of…
ADC Memorial hosted a human rights conference «Problems and risks of migration in the Russian Federation: protection of the rights of migrant workers, foreign citizens and stateless people». For two days experts and human rights activists from Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Russia,…
At the end of 2010 ‘German Railway’ company made a donation to the Foundation ‘Remembrance.Responsibility.Future.’(Foundation EVZ, Germany) to support victims of Nazism in countries of central and eastern Europe. A charity project ‘Support of victims of Nazi regime in Saint-Petersburg’,…
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