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…
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…
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has issued recommendations to the governments of Tajikistan (Recommendations 1 Recommendation 2) and Moldova based on its consideration of the periodic reports of these countries. In particular, it noted the problems…
The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has published its Concluding Observations for the Russian Federation following its 62nd session in September 2017. The Committee issued important recommendations related to the issues raised in ADC Memorial’s alternative report…
Discrimination of Crimean Tartars and Ethnic Ukrainians in Russia and in the annexed Crimea This submission was prepared jointly by ADC Memorial and KrymSOS. Materials on the situation of Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians were collected during a KrymSOS-ADC Memorial field…
ADC Memorial, CrimeaSOS, and FIDH welcome the Concluding Observations and Recommendations of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), which were released following the Committee’s recent 93rd session. The recommendations reflected the issues raised in an alternative…
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