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The main Belgian newspaper De Morgen writes about the results of the campaign of ADC Memorial #alljobs4allwomen and calls them the “exceptional victory for the Russian women’s rights movement.” The newspaper interviews Svetlana Medvedeva who, in cooperation with ADC Memorial,…

July 15, 2019 — On the tenth anniversary of the murder of Natalia Estemirova, Chechnya’s most prominent human rights defender, nine international and two Russian human rights groups, jointly with FIDH and its member organization Human Rights Center “Memorial,” call…

For the upcoming 83rd session of the UN CRC and the review of the situation of children’s rights in Belarus (January 2020), ADC Memorial prepared an alternative report on the problem of immigration detention of children. In Belarus, the outdated…

On June 18, 2019 the Russian Ministry of Labor sent a document to the Tripartite Commission for the Regulation of Social and Labor Relations, which is coordinated by Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Golikova. The updated list of professions contains…

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….