Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” continues to monitor the situation in the village of Cheremza, Kemerovo region, where on June 13, 2020, local residents began their peaceful protest against the activities of “Kuznetskiy Yuzhny” coal mining company, which had started building its…
The open-pit coal mines destroy the nature of Khakasia and the traditional way of life of the Khakas people. At the disfigured land it is impossible to breed livestock, the air and rivers are polluted, the cultural sites, natural and…
The Khakas, Shor, and Teleut peoples are indigenous residents of southern Siberia. The lands on which they live and practice traditional types of farming are rich with coal, which means that their territories have been rapidly developed by coal companies…
The open-pit coal mining inflicts irreparable harm to the traditional territories of the Khakas, Shor, and Teleut peoples in Khakasia and Kemerovo Province which makes impossible the traditional relations with the environment and threatens identity, culture, and languages of the…
“Uatu has died. The river is our mother, our father. And now she is dead.” We have lost this river. It will never return.” These were the words spoken by a woman from the Krenak tribe in southeastern Brazil about…
To mark the International Day of World’s Indigenous Peoples on August 9, ADC Memorial published a report: “I Won’t Have Any Life Without This Land”: Violations of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Resulting from Coal Mining in Southern Siberia. The…
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