Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw, September 20, 2018; 13.15-14.45; Room 2. Discrimination based on different grounds remains a serious problem in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The most vulnerable are victims of multiple forms of discrimination. While there are…
Over the last several years Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” has been campaigning to abolish the lists of professions prohibited for women in all countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia #AllJobs4AllWomen. As a result of this campaign at the end of…
Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw, September 18, 2018; 13.15-14.45; Room 2. Participants of the side event ‘CHILDREN IN EURASIA: LOOKING FOR THE REAL ALTERNATIVE TO IMMIGRATION DETENTION’ will discuss the efforts to humanize the system of children’s transit and possible…
Migrant Children in CIS Countries: Lack of Adequate Legal Norms Regulating Cooperation Between the Countries Involved. The new report is dedicated to the situation of children-migrants within CIS countries. In the region, both international agreements and national migration laws mostly…
The report is dedicated to the situation of children-migrants within CIS countries. In the region, both international agreements and national migration laws mostly ignore the children as a group in need for special protective measures. Their return to the countries…
Based on the results of its 93rd session the United Nations’ Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (UN CERD) made recommendations to Tajikistan, including two important recommendations, on which the country had to report urgently. The first concerned measures…
Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” has prepared an alternative list of questions for the 29th session of the UN Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families (CMW), which concerns violations of the rights…
Oyub Titiev, the head of the Human Rights Centre “Memorial” office in Chechnya, continued his human rights work after the murder of Natalia Estemirova in 2009 in spite of threats from the authorities. Since 9 January 2018 Oyub Titiev is…
The use of torture by the Russian law enforcement agencies has long ceased not only to shock, but also to surprise the public. In the recent months the media reported several cases of the use of violence against suspects and…
Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” publishes this video-testimony about the use of torture against LGBT persons in Crimea following annexation of the peninsula by Russia. A gay person, who was forced to leave Crimea, testifies about him being tortured by the police…
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