We collect and spread information about discrimination against people with disabilities in Russia
Our project is a volunteer project. Our task is to document crimes and discrimination against people with disabilities in modern Russia.
Human rights, and especially the rights of people with disabilities, have been systematically violated by the Russian authorities. After the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the situation became catastrophic.
Our project is an attempt to learn, preserve, and tell others about the real situation with the rights of people with disabilities in Russia, which is waging war and spitting on international human rights agreements.
Human rights, and especially the rights of people with disabilities, have been systematically violated by the Russian authorities. After the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the situation became catastrophic.
Our project is an attempt to learn, preserve, and tell others about the real situation with the rights of people with disabilities in Russia, which is waging war and spitting on international human rights agreements.
Our goals
To put it plainly, we are building an archive.
In addition, very soon we will begin to issue a monthly digest of everything we have learned — a sheet or two of A4 format, which can be printed out and shared with colleagues, and friends or left on the windowsill of one's apartment building.
We are also planning thematic reports. Like the ones
that were recently produced by international human rights organizations that no longer operate in Russia.
Our archive is being replenished in three ways:
News Archive
We collect a database of news reports on violations of the rights of people with disabilities from open sources. We expect that very soon this data will be interpretable
Witnesses or victims contact us directly. We are in contact with many NGOs and volunteer teams
Our volunteer team has a group of sociologists and journalists who talk to people with disabilities living in Russia on a weekly basis
sos@fefelov.org
partner@fefelov.org
partner@fefelov.org
Please contact us at the emails above or write directly to Vera Shengeliya
Team
We are a group of women who are interested in the topic of disability rights. Among us are people with experience of disability, activists, researchers, mothers of children with disabilities, writers, journalists and students.
Our volunteer group was formed around Vera Shengeliya's project The Disability LAB and her mini-courses about disability within the Smolny Beyond Borders program.
Our project is called The Fefelov's List in memory of Valery Fefelov, a Soviet dissident with a disability. In 1978, Valery Fefelov created the Initiative Group for the Defense of the Rights of People with Disabilities in the USSR. Fefelov and his co-workers “collected and spread information about the situation of the disabled in the USSR.” Valery Fefelov died in 2008 in Germany, where he was forced to emigrate under pressure from the KGB.
Here is his book "There no disabled in the USSR" in Russian
Here is his book "There no disabled in the USSR" in Russian
