If you go into any store on the eve of a new school year, you’ll immediately see stacks of brightly colored notebooks, pencils, and backpacks featuring the hero of the latest popular cartoon. Children and parents will be running agitatedly…
Theme: Roma rights
On August 2, 1944, almost three thousand of Roma were sent to the gas chambers in the Nazi death camp Auschwitz – Birkenau (occupied Poland). Just in 2015 a basic recognition of Romani victims was achieved and August 2nd was…
The issue of immigration detention of children raised in the alternative report by ADC Memorial is included into the List of Issues addressed by the UN CRC to the government of Belarus. The Committee asks to specify the steps taken…
On May 16, 2019, over 100 Roma people, including women, elderly people, and children, were subjected to illegal detention and inhuman etreatment by police officers in Mogilev Oblast, Belarus. At the time of writing the present report in July 2019,…
This report is based on information gathered by ADC Memorial staff during a field trip to Chemodanovka and also on information from open sources. Summary: On June 13, 2019, Romani people and other residents of the village of Chemodanovka, Bessonovsky…
The Moscow Times: ‘Like Pre-Revolutionary Pogroms’: Ethnic Conflicts on the Rise in Russia
For the second time in 13 months, Roma have fled a Russian village for fear of attacks. Olga Abramenko, an expert on the Roma with the St. Petersburg-based Memorial Anti-Discrimination Center, said that tensions between Roma people and ethnic Russians…