The Moldovan authorities submitted a report on the implementation of two priority recommendations made earlier by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD). These concerned the implementation of linguistic rights of ethnic minorities and the improvement of…
Theme: minorities’ rights
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (UN CERD) published its concluding observations and recommendations to Kyrgyzstan following the consideration of the country’s official state report during the 95th session of the Committee on April 23-24, 2018. The…
In line with EU policy of consulting civil society ahead of the event, ADC “Memorial” contributed to the 11th EU and Georgia annual Human Rights Dialogue that took place in Brussels on 25 April 2018 in presence of the EU…
Expert of the Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” spoke at a meeting, which the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) held with non-governmental organizations within the framework of the 95th session of the UN CERD, and presented a joint…
Yana and Vladislav Tannagashev, representatives of the Shor indigenous people from South West Siberia, activists from the non-registered organization “Revival of Kazas and Shor people” were forced to leave Russia with their children and applied for refugee status in a…
In the kitchen and in the tipi
The Tatar word “babai” (“grandfather”) is now likely to be learned by everyone who has followed the annual press conference of the Russian president Vladimir Putin. Answering the question on the “language issue” posed by a journalist from Tatarstan, he…