Paris-Saint-Petersbourg FIDH and its member organisation Anti-Discrimination Centre (ADC) Memorial denounce arrests of women who came out in Saint Petersburg on International Women’s Day on 8 March 2017 for an impromptu demonstration (or walk) to support the fight of women…
Theme: statement
Threats against Caucasian Knot Editor by Chechnya’s Parliament Speaker Must Be Investigated
Paris-Geneva-Brussels, January 13, 2017. The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, an FIDH-OMCT partnership, together with the Anti-Discrimination Centre (ADC) “Memorial”, strongly denounce the threats made by the Speaker of the Chechen Parliament Magomed Daudov via Instagram against…
On January 29, 2007 we decided to establish a new organization, the Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial.” This January we are celebrating our 10th anniversary and looking back at the results of our first decade of work. In fact, our work to…
Marking International Migrants Day, 18 December Press Release When the Commonwealth of Independent States was created on the ruins of the former Soviet Union in December 1991, it was hard to guess that one of the most visible results of…
Joint press-release Brussels-Paris-Saint-Petersburg, 13 December 2016. FIDH and its member organisations Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” and Citizen Watch denounce the illegal arrest and torture in police station of photojournalist David Frenkel, well known for his documentary photo reports on civil society…
Each year the UN Forum on Minority Issues gathers together representatives of civil society, official representatives of different countries and the staff of the United Nations human rights institutions. The topic of UNs 9th Forum on Minority Issues, which took…