Joint press-release FIDH and its member organisations ADC Memorial and Civil Society Institute (Armenia) Comments on the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women findings on Armenia and Belarus Brussels-Erevan-Paris, 22 November 2016. The UN Committee on the…
2.11.2016 (Paris-Geneva) Joint press-release by FIDH, its member organisation Anti-Discrimination Centre Memorial and World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) Ildar Ildusovich Dadin, civic activist whom Amnesty International declared as prisoner of conscience, was transferred to the Penal Colony No. 7 in…
Statement of Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” on the implementation by the Russian Federation of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography 75th UN CRC pre-session, October…
The 39th FIDH Congress, meeting in Johannesburg (Republic of South Africa) from 25 to 27 August 2016, wishes to express its solidarity and its support with human rights defenders who, across the planet, are subjected to harassment, attacks, repression and…
Kyiv, 12.08.2016 On 10 August, 2016 it was announced that in occupied Crimea the special services of the Russian Federation detained a Ukrainian citizen Evgenii Panov, a bus driver from Zaporizhia oblast. Two days earlier, Russian military equipment was concentrated…
Human rights defenders in the Russian Federation are facing persecution from all sides—they are being listed in the “foreign agents register” and distracted from their work by checks, trials, and fines. At the same time, independent media outlets are being…
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