13.06.2016
Theme: discrimination
17.05.2016
Joint Statement of ADC Memorial and the Center for Civil Liberties on International Day Against Homophobia: DISCRIMINATION AGAINST MINORITIES IS UNACCEPTABLE! May 17. On International Day Against Homophobia, the Anti-Discrimination Centre Memorial and the Ukrainian human rights organization Center for Civil Liberties consider it necessary to express their solidarity with all people facing discrimination on the basis of their sexual orientation...
16.05.2016
Two-year long fight for the right to education: disabled person gets compensation for moral damages Andrey Sosnov, a disabled person with vision impairment, who had been illegally denied the right to study at the internship program at the psychiatry faculty of the Saint Petersburg scientific and research psycho-neurological institute named after Bekhterev, finally received compensation...
28.03.2016
ECtHR ruled deportation of HIV-positive foreigners from Russia was discriminatory On March 15, 2016 the European Court for Human Rights (ECtHR) issued a positive ruling in the case of “Novruk and others v. Russia”, which had brought together five similar legal appeals regarding violation of the rights of HIV-infected citizens...
18.03.2016
Roma Woes as a Reflection of the Political Course Dyumen “took” Crimea two years ago. Now he’s “taking” a Roma settlement in Plekhanovo It’s all happened before, of course: Gas and electricity are disconnected. Frozen Roma mothers and grandmothers wail and curse in desperation. OMON troops, SWAT teams and...
03.02.2016