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Happy New Year! The end of one calendar year and the start of another is a good time to talk about which events of the past year hold the promise of change and give us something to work on in…

ADC Memorial has reported to the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation on the violation of the rights of the indigenous peoples of southern Siberia to safe drinking water and sanitation. Reports from civil…

International Memorial Board Statetment On 28 December 2021 Russia’s Supreme Court ruled to close International Memorial. The lawsuit, filed by the Prosecutor General’s Office, referred to a missing ‘foreign agent’ designation on some of the materials produced by International Memorial. This is only a formal pretext, though, and the court hearings showed that…

Promotion of modern international standards of children’s rights: deinstitutionalization and humanization of closed institutions in Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine The issue of returning migrant children to their countries of origin is important for the entire OSCE region Migrant children need…

openDemocracy: A Soviet-era law banning women from more than 200 jobs has finally been overturned in Kazakhstan. But the fight for gender parity is not over …The ban was originally established in the 1930s, when Soviet legislators argued that to…

The next Supreme Court session concerning International Memorial is scheduled for December 14. Much has already been said about the fact that this suit insults the memory of the millions of people crushed by Stalin’s repressions and that this threat…

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…