ADC “Memorial” cooperates with lawyers and various human rights organizations in seeking consistent legal recognition of the rights of HIV-positive foreign nationals to legally live in Russian Federation: discrimination against carriers of HIV violates international law, while legal ban on foreign nationals living with their Russian families does not comply with the principle of family unity.
Challenging the decision of Rospotrebnadzor in court, R.’s defenders pointed out that, in accordance with the Law “On Preventing the Spread of a Disease Caused by HIV in the Russian Federation”, foreign citizens and stateless persons with HIV, whose relatives…
On May 14, 2019, Dzerzhinsky district court of St. Petersburg overruled the earlier resolution concerning undesirability of the stay of Mr. Ts., a HIV-positive citizen of Moldova, in the Russian Federation, which had been issued by the office of Russia’s…
The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation invalidated the ban on the work of flight attendants for people with positive HIV status. In a separate ruling, Basmanny district court of Moscow illegalized the decision to ban entry to the Russian…
Mr. M., a native of Ukraine, who had a passport of a citizen of the USSR, first contacted ADC “Memorial” back in March 2013, following decision of the Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights (Rospotrebnadzor) decided on “undesirability” of…
Since the discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) attitudes towards people with HIV both on the part of the state authorities and the general public in many countries of the world has been changing – from complete rejection, stigmatization…
In their struggle against various forms of discrimination human rights defenders treat discrimination of HIV-positive people as a special problem, which requires attention. This issue constitutes a sort of the intersection of several forms of accentuated stigmatization and discrimination: it…
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