On June 8, 2021, the ODIHR OSCE organized an online event “Addressing Anti-Asian Racism and Xenophobia: Challenges and Opportunities”. Experts gave examples of sinophobic statements and actions and responses to them both from government authorities and society in Western Europe…
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has resulted in departure of labor migrants from Russia, the Russian labor market faced serious problems with labor personnel. The largest state and private enterprises, having lost the source of cheap labor, started incurring…
Daily explosions, coal handling, clouds of dust, this is the everyday life of residents in a coal region. Pits spew a tremendous amount of dust into the air during the mining and its processing at coal preparation plants. This dust…
Is it possible to speak of one people’s guilt before another? Is it necessary? Is it correct? The 20th century saw the emergence of the concept of collective national guilt and the need for “atonement.” This concept was extremely important…
June 1 – International Children’s Day – Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” in partnership with colleagues from Moldova (“Ave Copiii”), Ukraine (“Women’s Consortium”, member of the Coalition “Children’s Rights in Ukraine”) and Belarus (“Our House”) raised the problem of observing children’s rights…
fluter. In den 1970er-Jahren wurden in der Sowjetunion so wenige Kinder geboren, dass der Staat ein Berufsverbot für Frauen aussprach. Fortan waren ihnen 456 Berufe untersagt, die als gefährlich „für die reproduktive Gesundheit“ galten. Heißt: Frauen sollten nicht körperlich arbeiten, sondern gebären und erziehen. (Also auch…
Russia has enshrined discrimination against LGBTI+ people in the law in the form of a ban on “the promotion of non-traditional relationships between minors,” which effectively places restrictions on any serious conversation about sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI), on…
“Water is life”. There are no clean bodies of water left in our Kemerovo region. Coalmining takes the lives of Indigenous Peoples” – Yana Tannagasheva.
On May 18, 1944, the Crimean Tatar people were deported en masse from Crimea to remote regions of Central Asia and beyond the Urals. The memory of this event – when a purge descended upon an entire people, when individuals were labeled…
Coal mining has inflicted irreparable harm on the environment – the rivers and reservoirs, air, and land are heavily polluted. The indigenous peoples can not carry out their traditional economic activities – hunting and farming. For many indigenous peoples, ancestral…
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