By the 44th session of the Universal Periodic Review, ADC Memorial and the International Committee of Indigenous Peoples of Russia, with the support of the European Network on Statelessness (ENS) and the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (ISI), made a…
Theme: stateless people
Imprisoning stateless persons for the purpose of deportation is a cruel and senseless practice widely used by Russian courts and law enforcement agencies. Being only a “provisional measure” for expulsion, such deprivation of liberty turns into a punishment. In 2013,…
Content ADC Memorial’s campaign to protect refugee children from Ukraine Children of Ukraine in the face of war, migration and separation UN experts call for urgent action to protect Ukrainian children with disabilities studying at boarding schools More than 100…
The European Network on Statelessness (ENS) was able to catch up with Oleksandr Snitko, Statelessness Project Manager at the Tenth of April (‘Desyate Kvitnya’), an ENS member organisation based in Odesa, Ukraine. ENS asked Sasha about the Tenth of April’s work…
Three prisoners of the Detention Center in Tolyatti have been on hunger strike since May 26
Three prisoners of the Center for the Temporary Detention of Foreign Nationals (CTDFN) in Tolyatti have been on a hunger strike since May 6, Radio Liberty reports. These are former prisoners of the Russian penitentiary system who were placed in…
A new Human Rights report criticizes deprivation of nationality as a national security measure
A new report, launched March, 29 by the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (ISI) and the Global Citizenship Observatory (GLOBALCIT), offers the first comprehensive global survey of legislative provisions regulating nationality deprivation in relation to national security. In the decades…