Theme: migrant rights

He forges his decrees like horseshoes — some get it in the groin, some in the forehead. Some in the brows, some in the eyes. Osip Mandelstam The words of Osip Mandelstam about the actions of the “soul-killer and peasant-slayer”…

18 December marks International Migrants’ Day, established by the UN General Assembly in honour of the adoption in 1990 of the Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families. The rights of…

Novaya Gazeta Europe: From 1 September, only migrant children who have passed a Russian language proficiency test will be allowed to study in school. Admission rules may be further tightened, despite the fact that only one in three migrant children…

Global Detention Project released a publication on Russia’s current migration policy: Russia is ramping up immigration enforcement to pressure migrants to join the frontline in Ukraine and increase deportations of people from various Asian countries. As part of the Kremlin’s…

Brussels, Belgium, 4 March 2025 Today marks three years since the EU activated the Temporary Protection Directive (TPD), which provided a safe pathway to protection for millions of people fleeing the war in Ukraine. It was a powerful demonstration of…

In the issue: How Russian citizenship in a war situation has become an instrument of blackmail and intimidation; Russia reformed immigration detention laws after the 10-year struggle for the rights of prisoners of immigration detention facilities; the State Duma passed…