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 (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…
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…
On August 15, 2022, two Dungans convicted in a high-profile case of pogroms in the Dungan villages of Masanchi, Bular Batyr and Aukhatty in the Kordai district of Kazakhstan (February 7-8, 2020) were released on parole. They spent more than…
In late June, at the height of the war, Ukraine ratified the Istanbul Convention – the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence. On the one hand, this makes complete sense: Ukraine hopes to…
The children were taken out from the so-called “DPR” and “LPR” territories and from the territories occupied by the Russian troops after February 24. Paperwork and selection of foster families began in June, after Putin signed a decree on a…
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