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On Human Rights Day – December 10, 2021 – the Nobel Peace Prize is being awarded to Novaya gazeta editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov. This is the first time the prize has been awarded to a citizen of Russia, although it was previously awarded to…

This pandemic year, the XV International Festival of Human Rights Documentary Films “Bir Duino-2021” was titled “Human Rights in time of risks and disasters”. 45 films from 17 countries were submitted for the competition. During the four days of the…

On December 3, 2021, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination officially requested additional information from the Kazakhstan on the situaiton of the Dungan minority and the authorities’ measures on overcoming the consequences of anti-Dungan pogroms and restoring…

This year, the 14th session of the UN Forum on Minority Issues was devoted to preventing conflicts on ethnic and religious grounds. The causes and background of such incidents are the accumulated dissatisfaction of various groups of the population with…

Summing up the results of the project supported by the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum within the framework of the regranting program, we thank the partners from Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus for their cooperation and the work done. The aim…

On The International Women Human Rights Defenders Day we would like to draw special attention to the situation of women human rights defenders in Belarus. Since the spring of 2020, civil society in this country was being viciously attacked with…

Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” advocates cancellation of the practice of placing migrant children into children’s reception centers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs within the framework of the #Crossborderchildhood campaign and the project “Promotion of modern international standards of children’s rights:…

Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” continues its series of publications within the framework of the project “Promotion of modern international standards of children’s rights: deinstitutionalization and humanization of closed institutions in Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine”. This time we present a program by…

We, the undersigned 50 organizations of the International Federation for Human Rights, condemn in the harshest terms the ongoing attempts by the Russian authorities to liquidate two of Russia’s foremost human rights NGOs: International Memorial and its related organization, member…

The situation of women’s rights in Russia and Kyrgyzstan was evaluated at the recent 80th session of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. A number of important recommendations of the Committee to both countries relate to…