Theme: children’s rights

As it became known, on October 20, 2016 decision was adopted to dismiss the criminal case initiated last year following the death of 5-month old Umarali Nazarov. Investigators concluded that the “criminal event” in this case was “missing”. From the…

Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” submitted to UN CRC an alternative report on the implementation by the Russian Federation of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography….

Children’s rights issues have been trending in Russian media and on social networks after yet another scandalous statement by child rights ombudsman, Pavel Astakhov – this time, swiftly followed by his resignation. Astakhov had already made sensationally boorish remarks about…

Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” submitted to UN CRC an alternative report on the implementation by the Russian Federation of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography….

Romni in Dzerzhinsk (on the border with the so-called DNR)are trying to make a living by peeling nuts. Girls are helping their mother. Roma families from Dzerzhinsk try to earn their living by gathering nuts in the woods, peeling them…

It’s remarkable how some terms can migrate from their original semantic meaning to become symbols of some political or ideological struggle. Some terms, like ‘class struggle’ or ‘proletarian revolution’, for example, were politically loaded at conception rendering their politicization understandable….