ADC Memorial works to protect the rights of women from vulnerable groups (migrants, Romani women, and women from other ethnic minorities. As part of its international advocacy work, it has prepared alternative reports on gender discrimination in the region for…
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Roma rights and racial discrimination
ADC Memorial documents instances of structural discrimination against Romani people in the region, protects the rights of Romani people in courts and through international advocacy, and publishes educational materials, including in the Romani language. It devotes special attention to protecting…
Stateless persons
Statelessness became a common phenomenon after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Stateless persons are deemed to have violated migration rules and are sometimes illegally held in prison conditions in temporary detention centers for foreign nationals for months or sometimes…
Children are part of mass migration in Eurasia, but are not mentioned in the migration laws of individual countries as independent rightsholders. The main document regulating the movement of children in the region is still the outdated and repressive Chisinau…
Migrant rights
Access to realization of human rights is limited for citizens of Eastern European and Central Asian countries who have been forced into labor migration. Individual countries fail to implement their international obligations in their migration strategies, and there is a…
Alternative information by the Kyrgyz Family Planning Alliance and ADC Memorial on Kyrgyzstan’s implementation of the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women in connection with the review of the state report by the UN…
Anti-Discrimination Center Memorial
ADC Memorial works under the premise that non-discrimination is the main condition for compliance with human rights principles. The Anti-Discrimination Centre Memorial Brussels has traditionally focused on protecting the rights of minorities and vulnerable groups and opposing racism, sexism, homophobia…
A heated discussion about family separation has been raging since 2018. The US practice of separating children from adult family members and holding them in detention camps caused broad public indignation after it emerged that adult migrants at the US-Mexico…
On October 17, 2019 within the campaign of ADC Memorial #CrossborderChildhood the round table ‘Cooperation in the field of return of children-migrants to country of origin’ was organized by ADC Memorial and Center for Social and Gender Studies. The event…
Speech by Kateryna Budiyanskaya at the side event #CrossborderChildhood: the rights of migrant children in Eastern Europe and Central Asia Even though Ukraine has essentially left the CIS and taken a path towards European integration, the return of migrant children…