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Published in: oDRFighting for Magnitsky (part 2)Six months on from the controversial prison death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, Oliver Carroll spoke to key witness...
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Published in: oDRFighting for Magnitsky: an interview with Jamison Firestone (part 1)Six months on from the controversial prison death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, Oliver Carroll spoke to key witness...
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Published in: oDRPrison as a death sentenceThe death in custody of Sergei Magnitsky in November shocked the world and mobilised President Medvedev into a...
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Published in: HomeWho is responsible? An interview with Fred HallidayFred Halliday, who died on 26 April, talks to Danny Postel about realpolitik, religion, universal rights and the...
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Published in: oDRAfter the plane crash: Russian attitudes to Katyn
The NKVD’s mass execution in 1940 of Polish officers in Katyn Forest has complicated the often tense relations...
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Published in: HomeHow it all started...
The idea was born on a train ride returning from the ‘Religion Revisited’- conference of UNRISD and the Heinrich...
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Published in: HomeAmnesty: human rights, political wrongs
An intense controversy over Amnesty International's association with people who reject its universalist principles...
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Published in: 50.50Life on a knife edge: migrant domestic workers in the UKAt what point do the rights of migrant domestic workers as human beings and as workers start to take precedence over...
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Published in: oDRTackling Russia’s legal nihilismOlga Kudeshkina made headlines in 2004 as the first Russian judge to flag up political interference in the judicial...
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Published in: oDRGrozny: Rebuilt, Fearful and (Almost) Forgotten by the West
Downtown Grozny, Chechnya’s capital, is ablaze with lights and full of chic shops now. But the paralysing fear...
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Published in: oDRLife and death of an independent newspaper in OryolIn 2004, some local journalists in Oryol founded an independent newspaper ‘for those who want the truth’. Although...
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Published in: HomeA new approach to human rights (and China)
The focus of dialogue with Beijing about human rights should shift from enforcing universal laws towards building a...
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Published in: oDRIn memoriam Nastya and Stas
Anastasia Baburova and Stanislav Markelov were gunned down in a neo-Nazi contract killing a year ago. In this moving...
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Published in: oDRKremlin hand hovers over Russia's internet
So far the Russian government has resisted the temptation of controlling the Russian internet, but this may be about...
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Published in: oDRHow Russia’s human rights movement beganToday, as Memorial receives the 2009 Sakharov Prize, Lyubov Borusyak talks to Ludmila Alexeyeva, head of the Moscow...
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Published in: openSecuritySecurity contractors participated in CIA counterinsurgency operations
Employees of the private security firm Xe, formerly known as Blackwater, directly participated in CIA...
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Published in: HomeSri Lanka: power and accountability
The degrading aftermath of Sri Lanka’s civil war demands international action to ensure protection of its civilians...
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Published in: oDRThe ones that lost: Russian cases rejected at the European Court
Landmark victories in defiance of the Russian government have made the European Court of Human Rights the most...
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Published in: Live discussionsWhy do Russians support the war?
