Theme: ADC “Memorial”

The topic of the UN Forum on Minority Issues that took place in Geneva on 24025 November, 2015, was the protection of minorities in criminal justice system. In the joint statement ADC Memorial and Center for Civil Liberties noted numerous…

UN Human Rights Committee issued its ruling on the legal claim of Philipp Kostenko, stating that the Russian Federation had violated Articles 14 (right to fair trial) and 19 (right to free speech) of the International Covenant on Civil and…

At its 62nd session on October 27, 2015, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women reviewed the Russian Federation’s official report on the implementation of CEDAW and several alternative reports from human rights organizations, including ADC Memorial’s…

This panel discussion brought together prominent human rights defenders to discuss recent legislative changes, and the challenges they present to litigating cases of abuse in Russia and Azerbaijan, and the former Soviet Union more broadly, at domestic and international levels,…

October 26, 2015, Geneve Dear Members of the Committee, ADC Memorial calls you to include the following measures on elimination of discrimination of women to your recommendations to the Russian Government: = stop attempts to restrict a woman’s right to…

For more than a year various Saint-Petersburg courts considered the case of Andrey Sosnov, a disabled person with vision impairment, who had made a legal appeal against the refusal of the Saint Petersburg scientific and research psycho-neurological institute named after…