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The United Nations’ Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (UN CERD) addressed a request to the Russian government for clarification concerning violations of the rights of Roma in the villages of Chemodanovka (Penza Region) and Ust-Abakan (Republic of Khakassia)….read more
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (UN CERD) published its assessment of the situation of the Shor people in the Kemerovo region as part of continued review of the situation in Russia. The Committee noted that despite…read more
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (UN CERD) has published its assessment of discrimination against Crimean Tatars in the Russia-controlled Crimean peninsula and Russia’s compliance with the Committee’s previous recommendations published in 2017. The Committee’s experts once…read more
On December 23, 2019, Vsevolozhsk city court (Leningrad Region), after having examined the application of lawyer Yuri Serov, ruled to release two stateless persons who had been held in a centre for temporary detention of foreign nationals for a long…read more
The question of what protection a child needs is often the subject of heated debate. Society is divided into those who firmly support parents who know “what is best for the child” and those who almost always support government interference…read more
The European Parliament reiterated that the ‘foreign agent’ legislation violated the international human rights obligations of the Russian Federation and called the government to annul it. The recent amendments about the persons-‘foreign agents’ are vague, contradict the principles of legal…read more
Topics related to the situation of vulnerable groups were included on the list of questions addressed to the Ukrainian government during the 127th session of the UN Human Rights Committee. In assessing the level of representation of women in political…read more
In anticipation of International Migrants Day on December 18, ADC Memorial, Bir Duino Kyrgyzstan, and the International Legal Initiative welcome recommendations to improve implementation of international treaties and realize fundamental human rights that Kazakhstan received as part of the Universal…read more
To the International Migrants Day ADC Memorial has prepared special issue of human rights bulletin dedicated to the rights of migrants and stateless people and #CrossborderChildhood campaign. Content: Discrimination due to Family Circumstances Court overrules Russian consumer watchdog’s decision on…read more