In addition to open-pit coal mining, which has had a major impact on Shors, a small-numbered Indigenous group from South Siberia, gold mining companies are also expropriating Indigenous Peoples’ lands where they have led their traditional lifestyles for centuries, polluting…
Mr Balakrishnan Rajagopal, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, presented a new report on discrimination in the context of housing to the UN General Assembly on October 26, 2021. This described problem is global; different groups…
On December 19, 2018, the FSB banned Johannes Rohr, a renowned international expert on the rights of the Indigenous peoples of Siberia and the Far East and the author of many alternative reports on the situation of Russia’s small Indigenous…
In February 2019, Internet access to The Barents Observer, an independent Norwegian newspaper, was blocked in Russia. The reason for this was the editorial board’s refusal to delete an article about Dan Eriksson, a Sámi person, which had raised some…
Upon consideration of the state report of Azerbaijan at the 80th session, the UN Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (CMW) issued its important recommendations. The Committee noted with…
On October 12, President Tokayev signed the Law “On Amendments and Additions to Several Legal Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan Regarding Social Protection for Certain Categories of Citizens,” which removes restrictions on employment for women from the Labor Code….
Even today, not everyone knows that the term “deinstitutionalization” refers to the restructuring of residential institutions for children, like boarding schools and orphanages. This reform has its supporters, above all, of course, among the employees of this system and people…
Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” has repeatedly raised the problem of violations of the rights of indigenous peoples living in Khakassia and Kemerovo region of the Russian Federation by coal mining enterprises and gold miners. Recently this problem has attracted the attention…
PARIS 08/10/2021 A historic afternoon at the United Nations Human Rights Council witnessed states adopt two resolutions by an overwhelming majority. • The first resolution establishes the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment as an internationally recognised right,…
Arkadiy Belinkov, the remarkable writer and a prisoner of Stalin’s camps, said it just right: “If an era…drags people into its atrocities; stifles freedom for various reasons and preaches terror under various names; tramples over the press; destroys the opposition;…
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