Not all the children, who live in Russia and want to learn in school, have a possibility to go to school on September 1 – many of them were refused this possibility due to lack of residence registration and other…
On June 6, 2015 LGBTI initiative “Comming Out” presented in Saint Petersburg its report on cases of discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in 2014. The annual report was presented by Ksenia Kirichenko, a member of the…
In April and May of 2015, UNITED held several events at once aimed at strengthening the work of this network of non-commercial organizations fighting any manifestation of nationalism, racism, or fascism. The events focused specially on supporting refugees and migrants….
Lawyers of ADC “Memorial” Inessa Sakhno and Sergey Mikheyev represented legal interests of Mr. Sosnoiv, a disabled person, in court in a case against discriminatory approach. On December 22, 2014 judge N.Ikonnikova of the Nevsky district court of Saint Petersburg…
Over 20 years ago, back in 1992, the UN General Assembly declared December 3 the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Since then the states – members of the United Nations Organization try to time various events aimed at improving…
Recently the world was shocked by a tragedy in Pakistan: 24-year-old Farzana Parveen, who was on the fourth month of pregnancy, was stoned to death for marrying the man that she loved against the will of her parents. The murder…
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