The United Nations’ Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (UN CERD) addressed a request to the Russian government for clarification concerning violations of the rights of Roma in the villages of Chemodanovka (Penza Region) and Ust-Abakan (Republic of Khakassia)….
Topics related to the situation of vulnerable groups were included on the list of questions addressed to the Ukrainian government during the 127th session of the UN Human Rights Committee. In assessing the level of representation of women in political…
Belarus is a party to most of the universal international human rights treaties. The tasks listed in the Interagency Plan to Implement the Recommendations of the UN UPR (2016) include analyzing legal acts for anti-discrimination norms and determining the expediency…
On August 27, 2016, the body of a young girl showing signs of violent death was discovered in southern Ukraine in the village of Loshchynivka, Odessa Oblast. After this, local residents, believing that the crime was committed by a Romani…
I represent the interests of the Roma living in the settlement of Ust-Abakan. This community of 250 people moved there in 2000. In May 2018, the Roma members of the settlement’s population started receiving threats because of an everyday conflict…
On September 26, 2019, Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” organized side event “Violence against Roma population in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine: police raids, forced evictions, pogroms” during the annual meeting of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR). This…
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