In Yekaterinburg, Yevgeny Roizman’s City Without Drugs Foundation has been engaged in some very questionable practices. But why has there been so little discussion?на русском языке
Выйдя из тюрьмы, Надежда Толоконникова и Мария Алехина решили организовать собственный правозащитный проект, который бы помогал заключенным. Задача нелегкая...in English
When Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina were released from prison, they decided to organise a prison rights project. It has not been easy… на русском языке
Judges, prisoners and drug addicts are all in legal limbo in Crimea because the judicial status of Russia’s new territory is still far from clear.
Russia has a vast number of nature reserves and national parks. But the government body supposed to be protecting them is in fact destroying many of them by allowing development and mining. на русском языке
When international organisations declare a crisis over and refugee camps are closed, what happens to those who remain? Oliver Tringham reports on a pilot community project to restore rights and create livelihoods for refugees forgotten in the wake of the Arab Spring.
It took eight years to convict the suspects in Anna Politkovskaya’s murder, but the person who ordered the journalist’s killing has never been identified. на русском языке
In Ukraine, businessmen are pressured to give financial and political support to the authorities or to testify against political opponents.
The sentencing to death in Sudan of Meriam Ishag for 'apostasy' is a brutal example of a wider pattern of exclusion on racial, religious and gender lines. The majority of Sudanese experience some form of marginalisation, economically, politically, or culturally.
While increasing regulation and manipulation are restricting Russia’s online space, activists are still finding innovative ways to use it to uncover corruption, such as a site uncovering plagiarism among Russian politicians.
In ten years, the number of active Russian internet users has leapt from 3% to 48% of the population, and counting. The government reacted by introducing a register of blacklisted sites. But some users are fighting back. на русском языке
