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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

In October 2007, Memorial organised two events dedicated to the problems of education for Romani young people.  A round table on the problems of Roma access to secondary and higher education took place on October 13th.  Participating in the discussion…

These days, rare are those who doubt that the right to education is one of the most important of adult and children’s rights.  There is no doubt that education is valuable in itself: knowledge not only allows a person to…

Dear Editor, I would like to tell you about two events which took place in our town, both of which ended tragically. A Roma man – we shall call him V. – was put in prison in his youth.  He…