The prize is awarded annually by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe for outstanding achievements in human rights protection.

This publication provides the summary of the information gathered by the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union, within the global initiative “Tribunal for Putin” on the alleged international crimes in 90 days of the full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war. 840 episodes were documented and recorded in the database.

‘In most of our countries, however, too many people have sided with the Russian dictator. In the name of an anti-imperialism that has turned into passionate hatred over the years, they are applauding anyone who is opposing the West’ – more than eighty writers and academics call on «all those who demand freedom for themselves» to «stand with the Ukrainians.»

Statements by some Western European politicians that only Putin is responsible for the war are an unforgivable simplification in matters of personal and collective resp. for unleashing and waging an aggressive war, war crimes and violations of int. law.

We appeal to the President of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Parliament to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) without delay.

KHPG, The Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union and the Center for Civil Liberties are establishing a global initiative to bring to justice the perpetrators of war crimes committed during the armed aggression of the Russia against Ukraine.

‘Now the occupiers continue to bomb Kharkiv. I am writing this text under the constant accompaniment of the sounds of explosions, artillery and flying fighters.’

Address to the international community by "1st December Group", prominent Ukrainian human rights defenders and intellectuals.

‘The war unleashed by the Putin regime against Ukraine is a crime against peace and humanity.’

Russian scientists and scientific journalists have signed an appeal in which they declare their strong protest against the military actions of the Russian army on the territory of Ukraine.

We – St. Petersburg’s writers, poets, publishers, editors – are outraged by a war which Russia astrted against Ukraine, by the shellings of Ukrainian cities. We are witnessing a crime that needs to be stopped. To be silent means to become an accomplice.

Auschwitz Museum staff speaks in support of Ukraine, which is struggling with the Russian invasion.  

August 1991: the short chronicle of events

Ukraine World met some veterans of the war in Donbas and talked about their memories. Their stories are a mosaic of danger, difficulties, heroism, friendship, and work. Here are some.

The U.S. capital’s city council plans to rename the street in front of the Russian Embassy after slain Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, a move that Moscow has complained about.

The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission observer was killed after the car he was traveling in hit a mine near the village of Pryshyb in the Luhansk region

Twelve-year-old Roma Saveliyev is one of the most captivating interviewees in Evgeny Afineevsky’s documentary Winter On Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom, which has just been nominated for an Oscar.

The Ukrainian-language TSN new channel, a partner of Ukraine Today, on October 27 aired video footageof a man identified as Maksim Udovichenko revealing his past as a Russian military officer and giving locals his opinion on the situation in Ukraine.

In its just published annual report, Freedom House cites Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, including the outright seizure and formal annexation of Crimea, as a prime example of “the open disdain for democratic standards that coloured the words and actions of autocratic governments during the year.”

The ruling comes15 months after a memorial plaque to renowned and falsely maligned Slavist Yury Shevelyov was senselessly destroyed by ‘unidentified individuals’ half an hour after Kharkiv’s Mayor Gennady Kernes had ordered its removal, with the police seeing nothing