The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today concluded its consideration of the ninth periodic report of the Russian Federation, with Experts commending policies in favour of the family and women, and asking about gender-based violence, and the…
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The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today concluded its consideration of the fifth periodic report of Kyrgyzstan, with Committee Experts asking about the country’s list of jobs which women were prohibited from holding, and about the participation…
A2 cultural Czech biweekly: Zlato nad zlato
Dopady sibiřské zlaté horečky: Současná těžba zlata na Sibiři má dalekosáhlé ekologické i sociální důsledky. Nejde přitom jen o devastaci divoké přírody, ale také o ničení kultur původních kmenů. Ruské úřady nicméně nad katastrofickou situací spíše zavírají oči. Ruská Sibiř…
In addition to open-pit coal mining, which has had a major impact on Shors, a small-numbered Indigenous group from South Siberia, gold mining companies are also expropriating Indigenous Peoples’ lands where they have led their traditional lifestyles for centuries, polluting…
Mr Balakrishnan Rajagopal, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, presented a new report on discrimination in the context of housing to the UN General Assembly on October 26, 2021. This described problem is global; different groups…
On December 19, 2018, the FSB banned Johannes Rohr, a renowned international expert on the rights of the Indigenous peoples of Siberia and the Far East and the author of many alternative reports on the situation of Russia’s small Indigenous…