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One hundred years ago a day was established marking the fight for women’s rights. Later on, it became known as International Women’s Day: an annual celebration of the fight for women’s rights to vote and to wage equality. It is…

  On April, 2-3 a conference devoted to the main activities of the Anti-Discrimination Centre Memorial took place in Saint Petersburg. Representatives of Roma settlements and Saint Petersburg human rights organisations, lawyers from various regions participated in the conference.

Employment is a big problem for most Roma. The main reason is that Roma are easily recognisable from their unusual appearance. An employer sees not potential worker, but operates his own prejudices about Roma. As a result, Roma people are…

December’s nationalist demonstrations have affected the political life of the country. Unfortunately, the authorities of the Russia Federation did not oppose the street riots of xenophobes and accepted the anti-migrant rhetoric: high-ranking officials again speak of “ethnic criminality”, “criminal migration”…

  The United Nations declared last week of March as Week Against Racism, and the Council of Europe declared first week of April as Week of United Resistance to Homophobia and Discrimination Against Sexual Minorities. The Anti-Discrimination Centre Memorial invites…

On November, 1st, 2008 in office of Antidiscrimination Center “Memorial” has passed the Round table on a problem of formation of Roma children and presentation of two new manuals intended for improvement of quality of language training at schools where…

Short management on Roma language (844,94kb)

Galina Kozhevnikova, anti-fascist, researcher and human rights activist, has passed away on the 5th of March, 2011. She was one of the founders of the Information and analytical centre SOVA. Her contribution to the research of neo-nationalism, neo-Nazism and hate…

Shapoval V. Brief guide to Roma language (Сăldărari dialect). St. Petersburg, “Anima”, 2008. – 134 p. This guide is intended for teachers working in classes with Сăldărari Roma children. It contains grammatical explanations, exercises, texts with parallel educational translation and…