Theme: Roma rights

During the informal meeting with NGOs the Committee Experts showed great interest in the problem of non-fulfillment of the decisions of the Council for Equality, the issue of incomparably high levels of intolerance against the Roma people, particularly exclusion from…

Press-release of ADC “Memorial” for International Romani Day The situation of the Roma minorities in post-Soviet countries remains difficult: problems, which are rooted in the ethnic policies of the USSR have not yet been overcome. The ban on the nomadic…

New alternative report of ADC Memorial on the Russian Federation’s Implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights submitted to the UN Committee Alternative Report «The Russian Federation: Violation of the Economic and Social Rights of Roma…

Alternative Report «The Russian Federation: Violation of the Economic and Social Rights of Roma and Indigenous Peoples; Employment Discrimination against Vulnerable Groups» was prepared by ADC Memorial for the List of Issues that will be sent to the Russian government…

by Stephania Kulaeva from the magazine of ILGA-Europe Destination>>EQUALITY autumn 2016 I met Arthur (the name is changed) when he was 19 – and he was glowing with his bright smile, white shirt, blue-black hair and a beautiful dark face….

On October 11, 2016 the European Court of Human Rights made a chamber judgment in the case of “Bagdonavicius and Others v. Russia” (№ 19841/06). Thirty three representatives of Roma community, who lived in the village of Dorozhnoye (Guryev district…