Lots of people are suddenly talking about “discrimination,” even though this word is not used readily in Russia, just like the closely-related concept of “minority rights.” Many still find it somehow unpatriotic to protect and defend minority rights and combat…
Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” in partnership with its colleagues from Moldova (“Ave Copiii”), Ukraine (“Women’s Consortium”, member of the Coalition for the Rights of the Child in Ukraine) and Belarus (“Our Home”) held an online meeting devoted to the problems of…
This joint statement is an urgent call to States, UN agencies, donors and other stakeholders to learn lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic and take sustained action to correct past mistakes and prioritise protecting stateless people’s rights and the right to…
ADC Memorial expert Olga Abramenko spoke about the situation of Roma people in Russia at the conference The Cost of Security, which was organized by the Sova Center for Information and Analysis. The discussion was titled “Discrimination in Russia Today….
Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” welcomes the decision of the Government of Kazakhstan to cancel in the near future the list of jobs prohibited for women. This measure to eliminate discrimination against women became one of the points of the “Plan of…
The EU-Russia Civil Society Forum released the Legal Dialogue Playbook, a publication devoted to new trends in public interest law and new approaches to human rights protection in Europe and Russia. The publication analyzed the implementation of the Paris Climate…
Minority Rights Group International issued a report on the impact of COVID19 on the world’s most marginalised communities “Minority and Indigenous. Trends 2021. Lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic“ Tolekan Ismailova for the Minority Rights Group International: While the pandemic has…
On the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture 26th of June, ADC Memorial calls for attention to the specific problem of inhumane treatment and cruelty against children in closed institutions. Some practices that are considered acceptable in treating…
Оn June 17, 2021, the COVID-19 Emergency Statelessness Fund (CESF) Consortium – an initiative of the Institute for Statelessness and Inclusion (ISI) – published a report on the impact of COVID-19 on stateless people around the world. It is noted…
In 2013, Indigenous residents in Myski held single-person pickets for six months. The protest movement only grew from there… People against coal handling near their villages because they knew that their children would not be able to breathe, they knew…
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