The new 67th issue of the human rights bulletin of ADC Memorial has been released. In the issue: anti-Roma outbursts in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus; the situation in Crimea; the indigenous peoples of Russia; fights for the adoption of an…read more
In a touching memorial to female victims of domestic violence recently unveiled in Istanbul, the Turkish artist Vahit Tuna attached 440 pairs of women’s high-heeled shoes to two walls. This is the number of women killed by their partners in…read more
On One Hectare Olga ABRAMENKO OSCE ODIHR session discussed anti-Roma outbursts in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus Protection of the rights of victims of the anti-Roma pogrom in Ust-Abakan Valery ZAITSEV Police raids against Romani people in Belarus Pavel SAPELKO The…read more
On October 14, 2015, six-month-old Umarali Nazarov died in Saint Petersburg after he was forcibly taken from his mother at a police precinct while she was being investigated for violating migration rules. On October 13, Umarali’s mother, Zarina Yunusova, was…read more
The NGO Pink began fighting for the adoption of an anti-discrimination law in Armenia in 2012. Since then, several drafts have been submitted for public debate, but these have been criticized by the Armenian Apostolic Church and several homophobic groups….read more
Belarus is a party to most of the universal international human rights treaties. The tasks listed in the Interagency Plan to Implement the Recommendations of the UN UPR (2016) include analyzing legal acts for anti-discrimination norms and determining the expediency…read more
On August 27, 2016, the body of a young girl showing signs of violent death was discovered in southern Ukraine in the village of Loshchynivka, Odessa Oblast. After this, local residents, believing that the crime was committed by a Romani…read more
I represent the interests of the Roma living in the settlement of Ust-Abakan. This community of 250 people moved there in 2000. In May 2018, the Roma members of the settlement’s population started receiving threats because of an everyday conflict…read more
A meeting about humanizing the process for returning migrant children in the CIS region to their home countries took place on September 20 as part of the OSCE conference. This meeting was organized by ADC Memorial and coincided with the…read more
Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” took part in a side event on “Gender Discrimination Issues in Eastern Europe and Central Asia: Inequality at Work, Domestic Violence”, which was organized together with the Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) during the OSCE Human Dimension…read more