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On August 28th a seminar was held, organized by ADC Memorial in the frame of the project on “Legal support for migrants and representatives of national minorities in North-West Russia” (supported by Sida). Migrants working in St. Petersburg took part in it.

I am a volunteer from Germany. I have already worked for several months at Memorial. I care for elderly people and work with Romany schoolchildren. As part of my volunteer work I participated in two seminars organized by the initiative…

On the 16 of February 2007 in Saint-Petersburg „Memorial“ a training-seminar “Methods of teaching Russian language as a foreign language in the schools with a multinational structure” was carried out. The seminar was held within a framework of a long…

We address the topic about the “Roma and Mass media” not for the first time, we have organized awareness raising events specially for journalists. In April 2006 in cooperation with the European Centre for Roma Rights we held a training-seminar…

When dealing with the protection of Roma rights, you get to know a lot, not only about Roma themselves — so lively and unusual, — but also about the creative people who are interested in them: painters, photographers and writers,…

On 30th of May 2007 the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination,xenophobia and related intolerance, Mr. Doudou Diene has submitted a report to the UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL about his mission in the RUSSIAN FEDERATION for the…

We were off on a new journey. This time it was our northern capital, Pskov, Izborsk and Pushkinskiye Gory that expected us. We were 20: eight children and two volunteers from the Centre for education and adaptation for children of…

In the last few years the number of children from national minorities has increased in Russian schools. Some children have two native tongues, if the parents come from different cultures and want their child to know both languages.

What are children’s rights and how do they differ from the adult’s rights?  What is the difference between ‘Human Rights’ and ‘Rights of the Child’?  Not every person is a child, but every child is a person.  Moreover, every person either once was…

Joint Statement by Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg and UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing Miloon Kothari