In February 2019, Internet access to The Barents Observer, an independent Norwegian newspaper, was blocked in Russia. The reason for this was the editorial board’s refusal to delete an article about Dan Eriksson, a Sámi person, which had raised some…
Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” has repeatedly raised the problem of violations of the rights of indigenous peoples living in Khakassia and Kemerovo region of the Russian Federation by coal mining enterprises and gold miners. Recently this problem has attracted the attention…
Arkadiy Belinkov, the remarkable writer and a prisoner of Stalin’s camps, said it just right: “If an era…drags people into its atrocities; stifles freedom for various reasons and preaches terror under various names; tramples over the press; destroys the opposition;…
Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” welcomes the decision of the Government of Kazakhstan to cancel in the near future the list of jobs prohibited for women. This measure to eliminate discrimination against women became one of the points of the “Plan of…
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has resulted in departure of labor migrants from Russia, the Russian labor market faced serious problems with labor personnel. The largest state and private enterprises, having lost the source of cheap labor, started incurring…
From 28 April to May 1, an armed conflict took place in the Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan borderland, leading to 52 deaths, over 300 others injured, mass displacement, and destruction of civilians’ homes. The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), together with 12…
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