The Minority Forum aims at addressing the interrelatedness and interconnection between the promotion and protection of the human rights of persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities. This year’s Forum is convened on the theme “Statelessness: A…
London-Brussels, 24 September 2018 Anti-Discrimination Centre Memorial (ADC Memorial), the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (ISI) and the European Network on Statelessness (ENS) today welcomed the Russian Federation’s acceptance of recommendations on statelessness made to it by other states at…
The Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” was present at the 64th session of the UN Convention against torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment and raised the issue of inhuman detention conditions of stateless and foreign citizens in SUVSIG….
On July 4, 2018 the Chief Directorate for Migration of the Russian Ministry of Interior reported that it works on a draft law that would allow stateless persons and persons, who have stayed in the Russian Federation for a considerable…
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has once again recognized long-term deprivation of freedom for stateless persons in the temporary detention centres for foreign nationals in Russia as illegal in the absence of realistic possibilities for their expulsion from…
In September 2017 Mr. L., a native of the Luhansk region (Ukraine), was detained in St. Petersburg without identity documents and found guilty by the court of violating the Russian immigration regulations. He was sentenced to a fine and administrative…
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