On May 18-19 in ADC \u2018Memorial\u2019 a conference \u2018Legal possibilities of defence of Roma people\u2019s rights in Russia\u2019 will take place. Lawyers from different regions (participants from Krasnoyarsk, Omsk, Chelyabinsk, Belgorod, Kaliningrad, Ryazan, Volgograd, Sochi are invited), with whom ADC \u2018Memorial\u2019 is working in the frame of project \u2018Legal help to Roma settlements in Russia\u2019, together with employees of ADC \u2018Memorial\u2019 will discuss different aspects of legal help and defence of Roma people from discrimination. Special attention will be paid to a problem of defence from violence and different violations from police. The lawyers will tell about successful trial experience of defence of Roma settlements from demolition and eviction, house registration and obtaining personal documents. Possibility of international appeal will be considered separately: lawyer Marina Dubrovina will tell about preparation of complaint against mayor of Sochi, lawyer Olga Tseitlina about recent judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in case \u2018Klein and Alexandrovich v. Russia\u2019.<\/p>\n
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Program of the conference \u2018Legal possibilities of defence of\u00a0 Roma people\u2019s<\/strong> rights<\/strong> in Russia\u2019<\/strong> on 18-19 May, 2012.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 18 May<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 10:00 – 11:00 – presentation of participants, introductory speech, annual activity survey of the project (Anna Udyarova);<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 11:00 – 11:30 – notion of discrimination, complicated cases of discrimination, areas of work of ADC \u2018Memorial\u2019 against discrimination of Roma people, importance of identification and proof of discrimination (Stephania Kulaeva)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 11:30 – 12:00 – obtaining personal documents (passports, birth certificates), problems of interaction with FMS, consulates, trial procedure of getting citizenship (Nadezhda Kutepova, Peter Krasnov)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 13:30 – 14:30 – help to inhabitants of Roma settlements to get legal registration of land and houses; problems connected with absence of legal registration of land and houses, discussion (Inessa Sakhno, Ajgul Eserkeeva);<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 14:30 – 15:00 – defence of Roma children\u2019s right for education: discrimination and segregation of Roma children in schools, practice of the European Court of Human Rights, examples of schools where children from Roma settlements get education (Olga Abramenko); project of making a manual about human rights for Roma children (Kirill Kozhanov);<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 15:00 – 16:00 – lunch<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 16:00 – 18:00 – problem of police violence, unlawful detentions and other violations by policemen with regard to Roma people, possibilities of defence (Sergey Mikheev, lawyer Sergey Malanovsky)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 19 May