Theme: xenophobia

On May 30, 2019, the Supreme Court of the Republic of Khakassia granted the appeal of the Ust-Abakan town administration against the earlier ruling of the Ust-Abakan district court and ordered the residents of a Roma settlement to demolish within…

Discussing seriously the writings of Ulyana Skoybeda [reporter of “Komsomolskaya Pravda” newspaper, infamous for her racist remarks] is probably bad tone in itself. Racism and anti-Semitism, homophobia and hatred towards Ukrainians, migrants, liberals … This is hardly interesting at all…

Non-resistance to xenophobia and intolerance on the part of the Russian authorities has long become commonplace, but acceptance of racism by oppositionists, who pay lip service to tolerance and humanism as the basis of their activities, is puzzling. The Yabloko…

Speech at informal briefing with the Committee In today’s Armenia, ethnic minorities are still often discriminated – there is predominance of cultural and social stereotypes towards people that are not ethnically Armenian and have a different religion to that prevailing…

During the informal meeting with NGOs the Committee Experts showed great interest in the problem of non-fulfillment of the decisions of the Council for Equality, the issue of incomparably high levels of intolerance against the Roma people, particularly exclusion from…

Ahead of the 92th session of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in April 2017, where Armenia’s and Moldova’s official reports will be considered, ADC “Memorial” in partnership with the Civil Society Institute (Armenia) and PromoLEX (Moldova)…