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"Memorial" (Russian: Мемориал) is an international historical and civil rights society that operates in the total of post-USSR states with a charted missions declared within its charter:
A society was officially founded per originatiin conference held on April 19, 1992, although it was organized in Eighties when you took a Glasnost period in the former Soviet Union. Fallowing a collapse of the Soviet Union the society became international, with organizations within Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Latvia, and Georgia.
Its to the full official title is the International Volunteer Public Organization “MEMORIAL Historical, Training, Human being Rights & Charitable Society”.
Around 2004 Memorial was among the quaternion recipients of the Right Livelihood Award, sometimes known as a option Nobel price, for its work withwithin documenting violations of man rights in Russia & more previous states in the USSR. Quoting a RLA jury: "...for showing, under very difficult conditions, and with great personal courage, that history must be recorded and understood, and human rights respected everywhere, if sustainable solutions to the legacy of the past are to be achieved."
Activities
Memorial organizes assistance, legal & fiscal for the people of Gulag.
Memorial does search inside a history of political repression & publicizes the findings in books, articles, exhibitions, museums, & websites of its member organisations.
Per efforts of the society, October 30, 1990, the Memorial to the Those of the Gulag (a elementary stone from either Solovki) was erected at the Lubyanka Square in Moscow, near a KGB headquarters beside the Iron Felix (the latter was flushed within August, 1991).
Around 1991, a Supreme Soviet of a RSFSR officially recognized the day of October 30 as a Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repression.
Efforts of Memorial were behind a Law in Rehabilitation of Those of Political Repression. It was passed inside 1991.
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Celebration 2001 Commemorating the 176th anniversary of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, the first known Gay activist, including plans for a graveside memorial service in August 2001, in Italy. See also on this page: Memory Book 2000: A Festschrift Commemorating the 175th Jubilee Birthday Anniversary of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs Remembering Our Dead Memorial to transgendered people who have died as a result of foul play, built in the hope that bringing the past into focus will prevent its repetition. Karl Heinrich Ulrichs: Memory Book 2000 Festschrift celebrating the 175th birthday anniversary of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, the first known Gay activist. Where's the outrage? Memorial piece on the deaths of Stephen Goedereis and Arthur "J.R." Warren. Tribute To Matthew Wayne Shepard Dedicated to the memory of Matthew Wayne Shepard, Billy Jack Gaither and anyone else who has been a victim of such a crime. Key West AIDS Memorial In remembrance of the more than 1000 people (out of a population of about 25,000 residents) from Key West who have died of AIDS. Urania Manuscripts Memorial on the occasion of the 176th birthday anniversary of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs in 2001. Features excerpts of his works in translation, and biographical information. Sydney Gay and Lesbian Memorial Celebrates the memory of all gay men and lesbian women murdered, tortured or persecuted because of their sexuality. Location map and history of the project. September 11, 2001: Gay Victims Gay Heroes Memorial to the gay victims of the September 11 incidents at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and in Pennsylvania. |
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