A tried-and-true recipe for retaining power when discontent is on the rise in the country is “a short victorious war”. If that war turns out to be neither short nor victorious, then the next option is to assign guilt to…
The yearly thematic issue of ADC Memorial’s Human Rights Bulletin has been published. It focuses first of all on Russia’s war against Ukraine and its damaging impact on vulnerable groups in the whole region (Roma and other ethnic minorities, migrants,…
STOP THE WAR! Stop the war! Freedom to Ukraine! Peace to the nations! Repressions against the Crimean Tatars have been unleashed in the Ukrainian territories occupied by the Russian troops Elderly, and people with disabilities are unable to escape war…
Happy New Year! The end of one calendar year and the start of another is a good time to talk about which events of the past year hold the promise of change and give us something to work on in…
Mr Balakrishnan Rajagopal, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, presented a new report on discrimination in the context of housing to the UN General Assembly on October 26, 2021. This described problem is global; different groups…
In February 2019, Internet access to The Barents Observer, an independent Norwegian newspaper, was blocked in Russia. The reason for this was the editorial board’s refusal to delete an article about Dan Eriksson, a Sámi person, which had raised some…
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