Following the 19th session in February, the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities published its concluding observations and recommendations in relation to the initial report of the Russian Federation. It is the first time in its history…
Theme: rights of disabled people
For the 19th Session of the UN CRPD, on the Implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, ADC “Memorial” submitted an alternative report focused on the violations of Article 24 “Education”. Russian laws and practice…
For the 19th Session of the UN CRPD, on the Implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, ADC “Memorial” submitted an alternative report focused on the violations of Article 24 “Education”. Russian laws and practice…
Geneva, 26 September 2017. The UN Committee on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights observed the report of the Russian Federation. In the alternative report of ADC Memorial (with the participation of CrimeaSOS and the NGO “Revival of Kazas and Shor…
Two-year long fight for the right to education: disabled person gets compensation for moral damages
Andrey Sosnov, a disabled person with vision impairment, who had been illegally denied the right to study at the internship program at the psychiatry faculty of the Saint Petersburg scientific and research psycho-neurological institute named after Bekhterev, finally received compensation…
City court ruled in favor of disabled person
For more than a year various Saint-Petersburg courts considered the case of Andrey Sosnov, a disabled person with vision impairment, who had made a legal appeal against the refusal of the Saint Petersburg scientific and research psycho-neurological institute named after…