On 2 February 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued landmark decisions in two cases against Russia initiated by Ukraine on 16 January 2017 regarding terrorism financing and racial discrimination, and on 26 February 2022 regarding genocide allegations. While…
On 17 November 2023, Russia’s Ministry of Justice filed a lawsuit with the State’s Supreme Court, demanding the recognition of the “international public LGBT movement” as an “extremist organization”. The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and its member organizations,…
After a wave of antisemitic violence surged across the North Caucasus, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and its member organisations, the Anti-Discrimination Centre Memorial (ADC Memorial), the Human Rights Defence Centre Memorial and Citizens’ Watch, urge the Russian…
24 February marks one year since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. To date, FIDH member organisations in Ukraine, the Center for Civil Liberties, and the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, have helped to document close to 30,000 alleged international crimes….
One year ago, Russia launched its massive invasion of Ukraine. The “hybrid warfare” of the previous eight years had turned into a full-blown aggressive war at a scale unseen in Europe since 1939. Both the global community and…
Deutsch unten Representatives of the Pamiri people, forced to leave Tajikistan due to political persecution, are now deployed in many refugee camps in the territory of Germany. In the refugee camps of the city of Nuremberg alone, more…
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