According to a journalistic investigation by MediaHub in July, the private military company (PMC) Wagner recruits citizens from Central Asian countries, including Kyrgyzstanis, for the war in Ukraine. It is reported that over the past few weeks, in Kyrgyz accounts…
During a briefing on July 20 Daria Gerasimchuk, Commissioner of the President of Ukraine for Children’s Rights and Children’s Rehabilitation, announced: “The Russian authorities are voicing the number of 350,000 children allegedly ‘evacuated’ to Russia. However, no one is going…
The Brno administration has closed the temporary camp for refugees from Ukraine where Roma families used to live. According to volunteers, up to 300 people used the camp in a month and a half, and many of them repeatedly returned…
On June 17, 2022, the Frunzensky District Court of Saint Petersburg ruled to release S., a native of the Donetsk region of Ukraine, and B., a representative of the Roma community from the Transcarpathian region, who had been in the…
Following the consideration of the state report at the 82nd session (June 15-16, 2022), the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women addressed a number of important recommendations to Azerbaijan. In particular, the Committee was concerned about the economic…
When the famous Soviet figure-skaters Belousova and Protopopov fled the USSR in 1979, asking for political asylum in Switzerland, they were called traitors and renegades. There was even a verse: “So you are just deserters, just vlasovtsy [supporters of Soviet…
Human rights activist, journalist, and co-founder of ZMINA human rights center and NGO “Hromadske Radio” Maksym Butkevych has been taken prisoner by the Russian invaders near the captured Zolote and Hirske villages in Luhansk region, Babel and Hromadske Radio report….
The European Network on Statelessness (ENS) was able to catch up with Oleksandr Snitko, Statelessness Project Manager at the Tenth of April (‘Desyate Kvitnya’), an ENS member organisation based in Odesa, Ukraine. ENS asked Sasha about the Tenth of April’s work…
On the occasion of the World Refugee Day on June 20, the human rights NGO Human Constanta organized an online lecture “Vulnerable groups and the war” together with the expert of the Anti-Discrimination Centre Memorial Stefania Kulaeva. At the beginning…
On June 26, volunteers helping refugees from Ukraine in the Polish city of Przemysl, bordering Ukraine, told ADC Memorial that due to interruptions in the schedule of departure and arrival of trains, a large group of refugees from Ukraine, including…
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