Theme: Crimean Tatar

On May 18, 1944, the Crimean Tatar people were deported en masse from Crimea to remote regions of Central Asia and beyond the Urals. The memory of this event – when a purge descended upon an entire people, when individuals were labeled…

Submissions from civil society will be used for preparing the report of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights “Effective promotion of the implementation of the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic…

At the end of March, the problem of racial (or ethnic) discrimination is widely discussed in the world, as part of the UN – declared Week Against Racism following March 21 – the International Day for the Elimination of Racial…

For the UN Human Rights Committee session 129 Russian Federation The list of issues regarding access to fair trial and torture of representatives of ethnic and religious minorities   Based on field work and monitoring, ADC Memorial and Citizens’ Watch…

In August 2017 Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination adopted the Concluding Observations on the report of Russia. In paras 19-20 the Committee expressed its concern regarding the ban and strict limitations on the operation of Crimean Tatar representative institutions,…

Discrimination of Crimean Tartars and Ethnic Ukrainians in Russia and in the annexed Crimea This submission was prepared jointly by ADC Memorial and KrymSOS. Materials on the situation of Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians were collected during a KrymSOS-ADC Memorial field…