Theme: children’s rights

A seminar dedicated to the problems of the Roma families took place in Pskov on November 24th and 25th, 2011. Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” has been advocating for the rights of the Roma in the Northwestern region of Russia for many years,…

Ilya Berdyshev’s “School crisis and the rights of the child: psychotherapeutic recommendations to teachers and parents regarding “troubled” students” is an attempt to express in a condensed form the author’s views on the current school crisis, which is so acute…

This workbook for bilingual alphabet is aimed at primary school students for whom Roma Сăldărari dialect is their native language. Working with this study material allows children to develop an understanding that they not only can speak, but also write…

“ABC/primer for those who study Russian as a non-native language” was prepared by the Department of Intercultural Communication of the Russian State Pedagogical University named after Alexander Herzen as part of the project of Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” “Overcoming segregation and…

Upon starting work at school №9, teachers begin to learn the previously unknown to them Roma language straight away. This is necessary, since a large number of Roma pupils attend this school. On January 30th, the school held a seminar…

Shapoval V. Brief guide to Roma language (Сăldărari dialect). St. Petersburg, “Anima”, 2008. – 134 p. This guide is intended for teachers working in classes with Сăldărari Roma children. It contains grammatical explanations, exercises, texts with parallel educational translation and…