In addition to open-pit coal mining, which has had a major impact on Shors, a small-numbered Indigenous group from South Siberia, gold mining companies are also expropriating Indigenous Peoples’ lands where they have led their traditional lifestyles for centuries, polluting…
On December 19, 2018, the FSB banned Johannes Rohr, a renowned international expert on the rights of the Indigenous peoples of Siberia and the Far East and the author of many alternative reports on the situation of Russia’s small Indigenous…
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…
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