#SolidarityRomaUkraine The life of Roma women even in peace-time is full of troubles, like washing, cooking, cleaning, earning the family’s daily bread. The war brought women of Slovyansk into a lot of problems connected to their survival – they…
Theme: Roma rights
Out in the cold
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In December last year I visited Donetsk region in Ukraine once again (the towns of Slavyansk, Kramatorsk and Dzerzhinsk) in order to see how half a year of war had changed the life of the local population, especially the…
On October 27, 2015 the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women will consider official report of the Russian Federation and several alternative reports provided by human rights organizations. Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial”, among others, will present its report…
ADC “Memorial” took part in special events, which were part of the meeting of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR). Experts ADC “Memorial” visited a number of plenary sessions and side-events of ODIHR devoted to human…
In a few days, we will commemorate the liquidation 71 years ago of the so-called “Gypsy family camp” at Auschwitz-Birkenau. On 2 August 1944, 2 897 persons were taken to the gas chambers and exterminated. Only a few months earlier,…
Irkutsky Reporter: “People cannot simply be thrown out onto the street, be them Roma or Russian.”
About fifty people, including some thirty children, can become homeless in Irkutsk. Back in 2014 Leninsky district court ruled in a case of Irkutsk city administration against two persons that illegal housing (a Roma settlement) on 1st Kirovskaya street…