Theme: children’s rights

On December 18, 1990 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families and since then this day is celebrated worldwide as the International Migrants…

Dear Mrs. Agapitova, The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), non-governmental international organization with consultative status at the United Nations Organization and the Council of Europe, which has 178 member organizations worldwide, and its affiliates ADC “Memorial” and “Bir Duino…

Not all the children, who live in Russia and want to learn in school, have a possibility to go to school on September 1 – many of them were refused this possibility due to lack of residence registration and other…

The book by Ilya Berdyshev, a colleague of ours, is a collection of articles on the problems of childhood and the rights of children. It includes pieces on “School crisis and the rights of the child”, “Psychologist’s advice”, guidelines on…

Immigration rules in Russia became stricter recently, especially in the four regions of Russian Federation that receive the greatest number of immigrant workers (Moscow, Moscow region, Saint Petersburg, Leningrad region). But the children of immigrants had found themselves in the…

“In autumn 2013 criminal case proceedings started in Saint Petersburg regarding the murder of a year and a half Roma boy Maxim Szabov. The prosecuted, a 23 -year-old woman, Zhanna Lakatosz , lived together with Szabov at the same Roma…