Before the start of the military conflict, more than 160,000 children with disabilities lived in Ukraine. According to the National Health Service of Ukraine, 105 thousand of them were in boarding schools. It is known that by the end of…
The newspaper «День» (day.kyiv.ua) published preliminary results of a sociological study of the evacuation of people with disabilities in Ukraine, conducted by the organization Fight For Right/Борьба за права людей с инвалидностью. This summer, the organization conducted 20 in-depth expert…
The UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to adequate housing will include information received from civil society in a report to be presented at the UN General Assembly in 2021 and at the UN Human Rights Council session in 2022….
Russian law and law enforcement practice still fail to live up to the country’s obligations to create equal rights and opportunities for the self-realization of children with disabilities guaranteed by the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the…
The present collection “Protection from discrimination: summary of successful legal cases” (in Russian) is based on the materials of expert meetings held by Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” in 2017-2018 and reports presented by ADC “Memorial”, which include “Gender Discrimination – Jobs…
Following the 19th session in February, the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities published its concluding observations and recommendations in relation to the initial report of the Russian Federation. It is the first time in its history…
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