• War crimes

Russia fails to avoid European Court accountability for its war crimes in Ukraine

Russia’s effective exclusion from the Council of Europe over its invasion of Ukraine will not mean that the gross violations of human rights it is currently committing will be outside the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights

• Events

Ukraine Should Ratife The Rome Statute Of ICC — Euromaidan SOS appeal

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

• Events

Global Initiative ‘Breaking the Vicious Circle of Russia’s Impunity for Its War Crimes’ (also known as ‘Tribunal for Putin’)

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.

• Freedom of conscience and religion   • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia sentences two Crimean Tatars to 17 and 13 years for talking about their faith

A Russian ‘court’ has sentenced two Crimean Tatars active in the Crimean Solidarity human rights movement to 30 years’ imprisonment for conversations back in 2016 about their religious beliefs

• War crimes

Russian soldiers shoot at Kherson protesters demanding that Russia get out of Ukraine

The Russian invaders are resorting to violence as well as terror and abductions of journalists as Ukrainians continue to defend their freedom

• War crimes

Russian invaders kill 96-year-old Ukrainian Holocaust survivor

96-year-old Boris Romantschenko had survived four Nazi concentration camps but was killed by Russian invaders whose leaders are claiming that their aim is “the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine

• Freedom of conscience and religion   • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia passes monstrous sentences on Crimean Solidarity human rights activists

A Russian ‘court’ notorious for conveyor belt ‘trials’ of Ukrainian political prisoners has passed 14- and 15-year sentences against five Crimean Tatars, all of them activists for the Crimean Solidarity human rights group

• War crimes

Odesa Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths unite for Ukraine and against Russian aggression

Like the concentrated efforts of Odesa residents to protect the city against Russia’s expected attack, the representatives of Ukraine main faiths expose the lies that Moscow is using to try to justify its invasion.

• War crimes

Ukrainians block 'deliveries of death' from Poland to Belarus and Russia, demanding the EU stops trading with killers

It is over three weeks since Russia invaded Ukraine, with the Belarusian regime a direct accomplice to the atrocities that Moscow is committing, yet EU goods are continuing to flow into the aggressor states

• War crimes   • Research

Generalization of the information about the events in Kharkiv and Kharkiv region during the Russia-Ukraine war for the period February 24 – March 5, 2022

• War crimes

Courageous Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna feared seized by Russian invaders

Hromadske.ua journalist Victoria Roshchyna has not been seen since 12 March, and it is feared that she has been seized by the Russians who have invaded and seized control of Berdiansk in the Zaporizhya oblast.

• War crimes

Five members of a family and people queuing for bread killed by Russian bombing of Chernihiv

The victims also included ten residents of an ordinary Chernihiv suburb who were killed by the enemy while standing in a queue for bread