Theme: Roma rights

On August 10-11, 2017 experts of UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (UN CERD) reviewed the official state report of Tajikistan on the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. The only…

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has begun reviewing the state report of Tajikistan and also held an informal meeting with NGOs. ADC “Memorial” was the only NGO presenting alternative material that has participated in the…

On August 3-4, 2017 the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) reviewed the reports of the Russian Federation on the implementation of the relevant convention. The Committee took into account alternative materials, including the report prepared by…

This report by the ADC Memorial examines the problems faced by some of Tajikistan’s ethnic minorities who (unlike, for instance, Uzbeks, or Kyrgyz, or Russians who also live in Tajikistan) do not have their own state: Jughi, Pamiri, and Yaghnobi….

Non-resistance to xenophobia and intolerance on the part of the Russian authorities has long become commonplace, but acceptance of racism by oppositionists, who pay lip service to tolerance and humanism as the basis of their activities, is puzzling. The Yabloko…

The documentary film “Various talk” directed by Tatyana Chistova, which had been produced in cooperation with ADC “Memorial”, won the “Best documentary” prize at the 2017 “Golden Wheel” film festival about Romani people, which is held in Macedonia. The film…