During the informal meeting with NGOs the Committee Experts showed great interest in the problem of non-fulfillment of the decisions of the Council for Equality, the issue of incomparably high levels of intolerance against the Roma people, particularly exclusion from…
Theme: discrimination
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Article 19 of the Russian Constitution reads: “Any form of restriction of the rights of citizens on the basis of social, racial, ethnic, linguistic or religious affiliation is prohibited”. The recent ban on the activities of the Administrative Center of…
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Ahead of the 92th session of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in April 2017, where Armenia’s and Moldova’s official reports will be considered, ADC “Memorial” in partnership with the Civil Society Institute (Armenia) and PromoLEX (Moldova)…
Homophobia and totalitarian regimes today
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The bits and pieces of information on the persecution of gay people in Chechnya that trickled down to the media scare one with the scale, purposefulness and somewhat radical brutality of violence against the victims. At the same time…
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The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation invalidated the ban on the work of flight attendants for people with positive HIV status. In a separate ruling, Basmanny district court of Moscow illegalized the decision to ban entry to the Russian…
Tverskoy district court of Moscow ruled in favor of Mr. A., a citizen of the Republic of Uzbekistan, who had earlier made a legal appeal against the decision of the Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human…