The project “National-socialist genocide of Roma – looking for paths of remembrance” was carried out by the Anti-Discrimination Centre Memorial together with the Documentation and Cultural Centre of German Sinti and Roma in Heidelberg, supported by the Foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future.
The Constitutional Court declared that paragraph 4 of article 292 of the Civil Code is unconstitutional. This paragraph allows parents to dispose of the premises that provides the only housing for their child.
On December 5, 2009 in the ADC Memorial office a seminar for lawyers involved in the ADC Memorial project “Legal Aid for Romani-Kotlyar Settlements in Russia” was held. The seminar was organized for the lawyers and Roma living in compact…
On September 2, 2010, the European Court of Human Rights communicated the case Lakatosh and others v. Russia” complaint no. 32002/10 filed by lawyers of ADC Memorial (O. Zeitlina, A. Petrov). This is the first case dealing with the deportation…
The FIDH 7-minute video Bitter Winter in Belarus denounces the violent repression exercised by the Belarus authorities against all the dissident voices that have protested against the rigging of the December 19, 2010 presidential elections.
In February 2011, a group of Tajik citizens came to the Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial.” From February, 2009 till February, 2011 they were beaten by a person who introduced himself as a militia worker (criminal investigation department).
Discussions of the obstacles Roma children face when receiving education can last for ages. The problem of segregation classes and lack of special attitude to the children who will study in non-native Russian language were touched many times. Development of…
Because of my work I listen to many stories of migrant workers’ lives in St Petersburg. Most of them are stories about difficult fate of people who had to leave their homeland in search of better life. In Russia they…
On April, 7 a celebration devoted to International Roma day was organised in the White hall of the music theatre “Zazerkalye.” The Roma band “Krasnaya Roza” (Red Rose) of the Cultural centre in Leskolov and the group “Mundo capoeira” demonstrated…
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