Theme: indigenous peoples

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…

FIDH is launching a global campaign called #SeeYouInCourt – a litigation initiative that goes after corporations that harm the environment, fuel the climate crisis, and violate human rights. Until now, these companies have benefitted from impunity. FIDH, its member organisations…

The Independent Barents Observer, a media resource covering problems of the Russian-Norwegian border territories, was blocked by Roskomnadzor in 2019. ADC Memorial supported the appeal against the illegal restriction of freedom of speech at the national level, and after all…

Below is a summary of the Shor activist Yana Tannagasheva’s video project “Coal Kills Us” (ADC Memorial supported its distribution). The Shor are a small indigenous people living in southern Kemerovo Oblast and in neighboring districts of the Republic of Khakassia, the…

The tenth and final story in Yana Tannagasheva’s project “Coal is killing us” is about what should replace the barbaric coal mining in the Kuzbass region. “My tenth and final story about coal titled “A Different Life…” A different life;…

The ninth story from the series “Coal is killing us” by Yana Tannagasheva about the danger of the coal industry for the climate. Today the coal industry is the dirtiest way of producing energy and presents a major threat to…