At the beginning of February 2022, the promotion of “traditional values” in Russia faced obstacles. Firstly, a court in St. Petersburg suspended the liquidation of the Sphere Charitable Foundation, accused by the Ministry of Justice in threatening “traditional family values”…
Paris, 15 February 2022. The world is holding its collective breath as President Vladimir Putin is poised to have Russia’s armed forces re-invade Ukraine, bringing Europe closer to the precipice of war. The undersigned organisations of the International Federation for…
The United Nations Information Service in Geneva: The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this afternoon heard from representatives of non-governmental organizations on the situation of women’s rights in Uzbekistan, Peru, Lebanon and the Dominican Republic, whose reports…
Before the 134th session of the UN Human Rights Committee, ADC Memorial and activists of the initiative “Revival of Kazas and the Shor People” presented a report on violations of the rights of the Shors, based on the study “Alluvial…
Before the 134th session of the UN Human Rights Committee, ADC Memorial and activists of the initiative “Revival of Kazas and the Shor People” presented a report on violations of the rights of the Shors, based on the study “Alluvial…
Recently, ADC Memorial has repeatedly expressed concern about the situation in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region of Tajikistan. In November 2021, arbitrary actions of law enforcement agencies caused mass protests of the local population; the Tajik authorities responded with disconnecting the…
On January 31, Moldova completed the ratification of the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (Istanbul Convention). It will come into force 3 months after the ratification – at May 1, 2022….
The XV International Festival of Documentary Films on Human Rights “Bir Duino-2021” (Bishkek) ended with the publication of the bilingual English-Russian catalog. The theme of the festival in 2021 was “Human rights in a period of risks and disasters”. Vyacheslav…
In August 2021, amendments to the Law on the Legal Status of Foreign Citizens in the Russian Federation and other legislation regulating the legal status of stateless people came into force (Law No. 22-FZ of February 24, 2021, entered into…
On the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is celebrated on the date of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1945, Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” remembers the genocide of the Romani people in the 1930-1940s, which was a part of…
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