Theme: Roma rights

During the 63rd meeting of the pre-session working group of the United Nations’ Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (UN CESCR), lists of questions to the authorities of Belarus and Ukraine were drawn up on the eve of the…

The Russian Roma, like many residents of our country despairing of their inescapable situations and decades-old problems, are prone to put their hopes on their president. From a psychological standpoint, it is easier to think that the person on whom…

The situation of Roma communities in post-Soviet countries is diverse but remains difficult: problems, which are rooted in the ethnic policies of the USSR have not yet been overcome and the lack of consistent measures from national authorities to overcome…

ADC Memorial took part in the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting organized every year by the OSCE. Experts from ADC Memorial disseminated the report “Structural discrimination against Roma in Eastern Europe and Central Asia” and made a statement during the working…

Based on the results of its 93rd session the United Nations’ Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (UN CERD) made recommendations to Tajikistan, including two important recommendations, on which the country had to report urgently. The first concerned measures…

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…