May 17. On International Day Against Homophobia, the Anti-Discrimination Centre Memorial and the Ukrainian human rights organization Center for Civil Liberties consider it necessary to express their solidarity with all people facing discrimination on the basis of their sexual orientation…
Theme: LGBTI rights
For the 65th Pre-session of the United Nations Committee on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) Anti-discrimination centre Memorial and Civil Society Institute (Armenia) submitted а joint list of issues, related to discrimination of vulnerable groups of women, including migrants, LGBTI,…
Another homophobic witch hunt under way
The recent sensational legislative initiative aimed against “coming outs” refers to public demonstration of any relations, which the deputies who had proposed this draft law, find “perverted”. Any means are thought to be appropriate for them in order to justify…
October 26, 2015, Geneve Dear Members of the Committee, ADC Memorial calls you to include the following measures on elimination of discrimination of women to your recommendations to the Russian Government: = stop attempts to restrict a woman’s right to…
On June 6, 2015 LGBTI initiative “Comming Out” presented in Saint Petersburg its report on cases of discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in 2014. The annual report was presented by Ksenia Kirichenko, a member of the…
Like Victory, Freedom is always One for All
Cries of “Victory for love!” are sounding throughout America as the country celebrates the legalization of same-sex marriage. And this is, of course, a victory. For a great many people, the US Supreme Court’s decision to legalize same-sex marriage represents…