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In 2016, Anti-Discrimination Center “Memorial” together with the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties prepared a human rights report on violation of LGBT rights in occupied Crimea and Donbas. The text contains numerous cases of physical attacks, moral violence against LGBT…

In June in Chisinau at the basis of the Association for Child and Family Empowerment – AVE Copiii and with support of Ministry of Health, Labour and Social Protection, Bureau for Migration and Asylum of Ministry of Internal Affairs and…

Moscow city court has accepted a claim by The Barents Observer to challenge Russia’s censorship and media regulation agency Roskomnadzor’s arguments to ban the newspaper. The Norwegian-based, bi-lingual newspaper has been blocked in Russia since February after it refused to…

Speaking at the panel “Shifting borders: statelessness in the context of changes of sovereignity” experts from ADC Memorial and The Right to Protection presented a new Human Rights report “Stateless in Russia and Ukraine: possible ways to overcom the problem”….

For the second time in 13 months, Roma have fled a Russian village for fear of attacks. Olga Abramenko, an expert on the Roma with the St. Petersburg-based Memorial Anti-Discrimination Center, said that tensions between Roma people and ethnic Russians…

Moscow City Court rejected a lawsuit against Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), which was made by Johannes Rohr, a German expert on indigenous peoples. Rohr has challenged the decision of the FSB to ban him from entering Russia until 2069….

On this International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, ADC “Memorial’’ believes it is essential to remember two contemporary cases still making their way through the courts in St. Petersburg. In these two exceptionally telling cases, the accused not…

Human rights report by ADC Memorial and CF «The Right to Protection», Ukraine. Even though decades have passed since the fall of the Soviet Union, the problems of statelessness, whose roots reach way back into the past, have yet to…

In recent days, newsfeeds have been flooded with headline-grabbing reports from the village of Chemodanovka, the site of a conflict between “residents” and “gypsies,” as this event is portrayed in the media. An all-out brawl, whose details and causes are…

On 13 June 2018, prominent Iranian attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh, a major figure in the fight for human rights, was arrested and detained. Months later, in March 2019, she was handed a 33-year prison sentence and 148 lashes, following an unfair…