New Ethics, Same Old Reality Stephania Koulaeva The UN CERD required additional information on anti-Roma pogroms in Russia The UN CERD urges Belarus to respect the rights of Roma population ADC Memorial reviewed the situation of the vulnerable groups in…
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child published the List of Issues on compliance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child which will be discussed when considering the state report by Ukraine in 2021. The List…
The results of two different sociological studies on racism and the “national question” were published recently. One of the studies was a traditional survey conducted by the Levada Center, which has researched the level of xenophobia in the Russian Federation…
Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” welcomes the decision of the European Court for Human Rights (ECtHR) in the case of Filipp Kostenko and several other applicants. On October 20, 2020, the European Court of Human Rights issued its decision in the case…
Irina Kostevich, Belarusian Minister of Labor and Social Protection, has announced the government’s plans to abolish the list of professional occupations prohibited for women, which currently includes 181 professional occupations and 42 spheres of work. In her opinion, modern technologies…
On October 16, 2020, expert of ADC Memorial Eugenia Andreyuk addressed the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights during its session on the latest developments in Belarus, together with the representatives of the Belarusian Human Rights community, Ales Beliatskiy (Human…
The European Network on Statelessness: In Russia, tens of thousands of stateless people are at risk of spending years in detention if the courts order their deportation or expulsion from Russia; a decision that is legally impossible to implement as…
Members of the European Parliament’s Intergroup on LGBTI+ Rights stated that the so-called “conversion therapy” was a highly discriminatory practice that violated the rights of LGBTI+ people and caused them serious physical and psychological suffering. Such “correction” of sexual orientation…
ADC Memorial jointly with partners provided the Rapporteur of the OSCE Moscow Mechanism with analytical materials on the violations of the rights of women, children, foreigners, and other human rights challenges in Belarus related to the protests against the falsified…
ADC Memorial jointly with partners provided the Rapporteur of the OSCE Moscow Mechanism with analytical materials on the violations of the rights of women, children, foreigners, and other human rights challenges in Belarus related to the protests against the falsified…
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