Polit.ru published an interview with Roman Kiselyov, head of legal programs at the Moscow Helsinki Group, about the situation of Ukrainians stuck in Russian Centres for the Temporary Detention of Foreign Nationals (CTDFN) because of the war. Expulsion and deportations…
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The UN is concerned about the plight of children with disabilities affected by the war in Ukraine
Before the start of the military conflict, more than 160,000 children with disabilities lived in Ukraine. According to the National Health Service of Ukraine, 105 thousand of them were in boarding schools. It is known that by the end of…
Solidarity and Mutual Aid: A Study on the Evacuation of Persons with Disabilities from War Zones
The newspaper «День» (day.kyiv.ua) published preliminary results of a sociological study of the evacuation of people with disabilities in Ukraine, conducted by the organization Fight For Right/Борьба за права людей с инвалидностью. This summer, the organization conducted 20 in-depth expert…
The Crimean Human Rights Group and Крим.Реалії report that on September 2, 2022, the Russian-controlled Kievskiy District Court of Simferopol sentenced Crimean Tatars Ruslan Ablurakhmanov and Ayder Umerovaya to 5 years in a strict regime colony for participation in the…
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination issues recommendations to Azerbaijan
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) during the 107th session in August 2022 considered the state report of Azerbaijan and alternative materials submitted by representatives of civil society, and expressed concern about the condition of ethnic…
UNICEF: War marred the beginning of the school year for four million Ukrainian schoolchildren
Since the beginning of Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine, thousands of schools have been damaged or destroyed, according to UNICEF. Far from all schools opened on September 1: the government recognized less than 60% of the country’s schools as safe….
Krasnoyarsk media became aware of another prisoner of the Centre for the Temporary Detention of Foreign Nationals (CTDFN) with Ukrainian citizenship. 51-year-old I.N. is imprisoned for more than eight months. I.N. came to Russia back in 2014 and lived in…
On August 27, 2022, a decree of the President of the Russian Federation on the temporary cancellation of the expulsion/deportation of citizens of Ukraine and on the removal of restrictions on the period of their stay in the Russian Federation…
During a dialogue with the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on August 15-16, 2022, the state delegation submitting Azerbaijan’s periodic report on the implementation of the Convention reported that the country is preparing to adopt a law on…
The situation of the Roma people in Ukraine can be described as extremely difficult, and the war greatly exacerbated the problems that existed in peacetime. Conditions in many Roma settlements are unacceptable, and Roma face discrimination during the distribution of…