The UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to adequate housing will include information received from civil society in a report to be presented at the UN General Assembly in 2021 and at the UN Human Rights Council session in 2022….
Theme: forced evictions
On May 30, 2019, the Supreme Court of the Republic of Khakassia granted the appeal of the Ust-Abakan town administration against the earlier ruling of the Ust-Abakan district court and ordered the residents of a Roma settlement to demolish within…
February 21, 2019 – Ust-Abakan District Court in the Republic of Khakassia rejected a claim filed by the administration of Ust-Abakan regarding the demolition of 10 unauthorized structures belonging to Roma people. In May 2018, a tragedy occurred forcing 500…
New alternative report of ADC Memorial on the Russian Federation’s Implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights submitted to the UN Committee Alternative Report «The Russian Federation: Violation of the Economic and Social Rights of Roma…
On October 11, 2016 the European Court of Human Rights made a chamber judgment in the case of “Bagdonavicius and Others v. Russia” (№ 19841/06). Thirty three representatives of Roma community, who lived in the village of Dorozhnoye (Guryev district…
The lawyer of the ADC “Memorial,” working within the project “Legal help for Roma settlements in Russia,” had defended the Roma family, that was subjected to eviction, in the court in Kaliningrad. The district court found the administration’s actions to…