ADC “Memorial” in partnership with the Civil Society Institute (Armenia) has submitted to the 92th session of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Alternative report that point out the existing discrimination of ethnic minorities in Armenia. As…
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Bulletin № 57, April 2017
All Jobs for All Women Join the Campaign of ADC Memorial #AllJobs4AllWomen Participants and supporters of the Campaign Support of the campaign in the EU Women’s rights CEDAW UN recommends Ukraine to review the ban on certain professions. Press release…
Stateless person complains of extended imprisonment for the purpose of “expulsion” from the RF, even though it is obviously impossible to deport a stateless person. The RF Constitutional Court will consider the case of Noé Mskhiladze at 10:00 a.m. on…
Ahead of the 92th session of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in April 2017, where Armenia’s and Moldova’s official reports will be considered, ADC “Memorial” in partnership with the Civil Society Institute (Armenia) and PromoLEX (Moldova)…
Basta!: Persécutions et rafles anti-gays en Tchétchénie: les ONG demandent à Moscou de réagir
Après les révélations parues le 1er avril dans le journal russe Novaïa Gazeta sur les graves violences infligées à des homosexuels en Tchétchénie, la Fédération internationale des droits de l’Homme (FIDH) interpelle Vladimir Poutine via l’une de ses organisations membres….
Homophobia and totalitarian regimes today
The bits and pieces of information on the persecution of gay people in Chechnya that trickled down to the media scare one with the scale, purposefulness and somewhat radical brutality of violence against the victims. At the same time…
Press-release of ADC “Memorial” for International Romani Day The situation of the Roma minorities in post-Soviet countries remains difficult: problems, which are rooted in the ethnic policies of the USSR have not yet been overcome. The ban on the nomadic…
FIDH and its member organisation Anti-Discrimination Centre Memorial (ADC Memorial) express their full confidence in reliability of information provided by their long-term partner Russian LGBT Network who confirmed the facts of kidnapping, unlawful detentions, torture and killings of men suspected…
Women’s rights not just on Women’s Day
The festive “Women’s Day” is over and the gloomy days of late winter follow one after another, as March in Russia has the same distant relation to real spring as women’s rights have little to do with a strange tradition…
Paris-Saint-Petersbourg FIDH and its member organisation Anti-Discrimination Centre (ADC) Memorial denounce arrests of women who came out in Saint Petersburg on International Women’s Day on 8 March 2017 for an impromptu demonstration (or walk) to support the fight of women…