Theme: minorities’ rights

On October 14, 2026, Anti-Discrimination Centre Memorial Brussels organises a side event during the annual Warsaw Human Dimension Conference of the OSCE (Warsaw, Sofitel Victoria Hotel, Saski room, 16:00–17:00 CET). Anti-Discrimination Centre Memorial (Brussels) proposes to integrate the human rights…

The joint report ‘Information for the CESCR Committee for the concluding observations on the 7th periodical report of Russia’ is submitted by the Memorial Human Rights Defense Center, the Anti-Discrimination Centre Memorial, Civic Assistance Committee, and the Stichting Justice Initiative….

We, the undersigned civil society organisations, are deeply concerned about the ongoing systematic repression of Pamiri Indigenous Peoples in Tajikistan. This repression has intensified since 2022 following the government’s deadly crackdown on peaceful protests in Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO). We…

A Russian–Azerbaijani scandal is in full scale, sparked by the brutal detention and torture of ethnic Azerbaijanis in Yekaterinburg, which resulted in the deaths of two of them and severe beatings of others. Random Russian citizens, harshly detained in Azerbaijan,…

Protection of the rights of groups that are called “vulnerable to discrimination” in the language of modern international law is reminded about on certain dates, many of them in spring. Discrimination against women is discussed rather in March, the topic…

Russia is preparing for the “main autumn holiday” (as it is called on official websites and in the media), which has been held already for 20 years under the name of the Day of National Unity, November 4. Few people…