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On 20 January, 2018 young volunteer leaders of the Human Rights Movement “Bir Duino-Kyrgyzstan” will conduct a peaceful march to support protection of women’s rights in Kyrgyzstan. The purpose of this event is a vivid demonstration of disagreement of young…

Starting 2018 various state prohibitions either came into effect or, on the contrary, were abolished in different countries. For example, according to a report by Alternative News of Turkmenistan website, this country have forbidden women to drive cars: “Traffic police…

January 11, 2018 Police in Chechnya have arbitrarily arrested Oyub Titiev, head of the local office of Memorial, Russia’s leading human rights organization, on bogus drug possession charges, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Front Line Defenders, FIDH and the World…

POLITICO: Letter from Kiev. The double-exile of Dr. Anton “Life for this middle-aged, soft-spoken doctor had become unbearable in his hometown of Donetsk, a frontline city held by Russian-backed forces in eastern Ukraine. His decision to leave, however, was not…

From the threshold of the new year 2018, we would not only like to wish you happiness and success while defending human rights and fighting against discrimination, but also to draw the results of the past year. For ADC “Memorial”…

Specially for the campaign #AllJobs4allWomen a woman, who had been fired from a printing shop following the change of sex and the change of information on sex in her passport from “male” to “female”, told her story of discrimination. Her…

The Ukrainian Health Ministry has abolished its order #256 banning women from being employed in 450 professions which were considered damaging to women’s health, Ukrainian MP Iryna Suslova wrote on her fb page. Suslova was one of the politicians engaged…

The Tatar word “babai” (“grandfather”) is now likely to be learned by everyone who has followed the annual press conference of the Russian president Vladimir Putin. Answering the question on the “language issue” posed by a journalist from Tatarstan, he…

Statement of Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” for the International Migrants Day, December 18 ADC “Memorial” welcomes the adoption of important UN documents on the rights of migrant children, which include two Joint General Comments of the Committee on the Rights of…

On December 18, 2017 passed away Arseny Roginsky, the Chairman of the Board of the International Memorial Society. He had been fighting for historical truth and Human Rights years before the foundation of the MEMORIAL movement and paid for this fight…