In recent days, newsfeeds have been flooded with headline-grabbing reports from the village of Chemodanovka, the site of a conflict between “residents” and “gypsies,” as this event is portrayed in the media. An all-out brawl, whose details and causes are…
Migrant workers have always been a convenient instrument of manipulation. When society is in an uproar, particularly after a crime has been committed by a foreigner, officials take their cue from nationalists and assign collective responsibility to all migrants without…
ADC “Memorial” and Russian LGBT Network, which submitted a joint alternative report on discrimination against vulnerable groups in the RF as part of the universal periodic review procedure, welcome Russia’s adoption of a number of important recommendations made by UN…
The present collection “Protection from discrimination: summary of successful legal cases” (in Russian) is based on the materials of expert meetings held by Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” in 2017-2018 and reports presented by ADC “Memorial”, which include “Gender Discrimination – Jobs…
Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw, September 20, 2018; 13.15-14.45; Room 2. Discrimination based on different grounds remains a serious problem in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The most vulnerable are victims of multiple forms of discrimination. While there are…
Problems of Roma people are rarely reported on TV or in the press, and if they are being discussed, then, as a rule, the media often use negative stereotypes and myths that have little to do with real life. An…
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