Face to face with war: The impact of armed conflict on the rights of the elderly
The report is based on findings from the monitoring study of the impact of the armed conflict on the exercise of social rights by single elderly persons in need of external care living in the parts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions controlled by the Ukrainian government, including the areas near the contact line.
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Report on the monitoring of application in armed conflict in eastern Ukraine of means and methods prohibited by international treaties of conducting military operations on the objects of infrastructure and communications necessary for the survival of the civilian population. More information:https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/ed94bc_b6d55100b78e4670b36834d9c6a9bda5.pdf
Education in the line of fire: access to education near the front lines
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Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group offers the readers the report on the results of study of the consequences of the armed conflict for civilian population and civilian objects on the territory, where in 2014–2015 there were hostilities, and along the demarcation line between the occupied territories and the territories controlled by the government.
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THE RIGHTS OF CONVICTS DETAINED IN THE ORDLO
This publication is devoted to the situation of detainees who are in custody in the non-government controlled territories of Donetsk and Lugansk oblasts and were deprived of liberty before the beginning of the military conflict. The report contains the analysis of the legal status and the detention conditions for the convicts in ORDLO, the violations of fundamental rights of this category of population in ORDLO, reviews the troubles of transfer of the detainees to the institutions on the territory controlled by the government, tells about the legal assistance provided to some of the prisoners. It contains the recommendations with the aim of improving the situation.
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Justice in Eastern Ukraine during the military aggression of the Russian federation
Research report: Capacity of the Judiciary System to Ensure Justice in the Armed Conflict in Eastern Ukraine. Executive summary
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Forbidden target: healthcare facilities under shelling
Monitoring report on the use of methods and means of warfare against civilian healthcare facilities prohibited by international law during the armed conflict in Eastern Ukraine.
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Human Rights in Certain Districts of Donetsk and Luhansk Regions, January 2017
In January 2017 in the regions of Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts controlled by armed groups of socalled “LNR” and “DNR” another facts of of human rights abuses were revealed: illegal arrests of pro-Ukrainian citizens and sentencing detainees, obstruction of the activities of international organizations, the involvement of schoolchildren and students into propagandistic activities, creation of parallel legal system – all of those violations of human rights and freedoms, which became for the people living in the so-called “republics” a part of everyday life.
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Human Rights in Certain Districts of Donetsk and Luhansk Regions, December 2016
In December 2016 new facts of human rights violations were detected in particular areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, controlled by armed formations “L/DPR”: illegal apprehensions of proUkrainian citizens; use of pupils and students in propaganda meetings; development of a parallel legal system, combining human rights violations in the so called “republics”, which became a daily routine.
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Human Rights in Certain Districts of Donetsk and Luhansk Regions, November 2016
In November 2016, in the territories of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions controlled by illegal armed groups, the so-called «Luhansk People’s Republic» (“LPR”) and «Donetsk People’s Republic» (“DPR”), there was a surge of human rights violations: regular arrests and “military sentencing”, obstructing the activities of international humanitarian organizations, violation of property rights, violation of freedom of assembly, enforcement to participate in «patriotic» and «social» promotions – it is an incomplete list of violations of citizens’ rights and freedoms.
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Human Rights in Certain Districts of Donetsk and Luhansk Regions, October 2016
Observers registered increasing number of human rights violations in occupied areas of Luhansk and Donetsk regions: detentions of civilians; adoption of laws, that violate property rights; involvement of pupils and students into propaganda meetings – this is not a complete list of documented human rights violations.
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Violence in the Conflict Zone in Eastern Ukraine
Report of the international monitoring group according to the results of the monitoring mission carried out from October 17 to 23, 2016 in areas of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions.
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Communication within CEDAW on violations
Communication within CEDAW on violations committed by the Russian Federation on the parts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine, controlled by the anti-government armed groups which are under the effective control of the Russian Federation. Submitting NGOs: Center for Civil Liberties Luhansk Human Rights Defender Group Human Rights Information Center
Photo: Suspilne On September 15, human rights activists held campaigned near the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine requesting adopton of the...
Photo: Suspilne
On September 15, human rights activists held campaigned near the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine requesting adopton of the bill No. 2698 "On amendments to certain legislative acts of Ukraine concerning the implementation of international criminal and humanitarian law."
The adoption of this draft law would harmonize Ukrainian criminal legislation with the norms of international criminal and humanitarian law. Ukrainian law enforcement officers would be able to correctly qualify crimes committed during the war in the East of Ukraine. The bill would make it impossible to amnesty people who have committed war crimes. Also, these cases cannot simply be closed by the statute of limitations.
The bill on war criminals No. 2689 was registered in the Verkhovna Rada in December 2019.
Former prisoners of war and representatives of public organizations took part in the action. Center for Civil Liberties, the Izolyatsia art fund and the Arts & Rights project were the organizers of the event.
53% of Ukrainians believe that only those persons whose guilt in war and other serious crimes will be proven in court should be pros...
53% of Ukrainians believe that only those persons whose guilt in war and other serious crimes will be proven in court should be prosecuted for cooperation with the authorities of the so-called “L/DPR.” This is evidenced by the results of a survey conducted by the Kiev International Institute of Sociology with the support of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Ukraine and in cooperation with the ZMINA Center for Human Rights.
In the course of the poll, Ukrainians were asked who should be prosecuted for cooperation with the authorities of the so-called “DPR” / “LPR”.
Half of the respondents, namely 53%, believe that it should be only those whose guilt in war and other serious crimes will be proven in court.
22% say that everyone who held leadership positions in the so-called “DPR” / “LPR” should be prosecuted .
7% believe that all residents of the occupied territories who somehow cooperated with the local authorities.
Another 3% believe that no one should be responsible.
Recently, on September, 4 human rights defenders organized a discussion in Pokrovsk "Are we ready for reconciliation?"
More than 100 mercenaries from more than 30 countries are fighting on the side of illegal armed groups in Donbass. Deputy Prosecutor...
More than 100 mercenaries from more than 30 countries are fighting on the side of illegal armed groups in Donbass. Deputy Prosecutor General Gunduz Mammadov mentioned this in an interview for Radio Liberty.
“The Office of the Prosecutor General registered criminal proceedings on the facts of the participation of more than 100 foreign citizens in the illegal armed formations of the Russian Federation in the armed conflict in Donbas against Ukraine. The geography of the countries of origin of mercenaries is very diverse and comprises more than 30 states, including France, the Czech Republic and even Chile. The largest number of them are from Spain and Serbia - 27 people, Moldova - 26, France - 20,” - said Mammadov.
According to the Office of the Prosecutor General, citizens of Bulgaria, Armenia, Italy, Spain, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Moldova, the Netherlands, Germany, and others, participated in the illegal armed groups in Donbas as well.
Mercenraies took part in various units, in particular, the so-called 14th territorial defense battalion "Prizrak", 11th separate motorized rifle regiment "Vostok", 7th separate motorized rifle brigade "Chistyakovskaya", 1st separate motorized rifle brigade "Slavyanskaya", separate reconnaissance battalion "Sparta," a separate assault battalion" Somalia ", illegal armed formations" Rusichi "," Wolf`s Hundred "," Bryanka USSR "and others.
Previously, in Kazakhstan, Yevgenii Shcherbak was sentenced to 4.5 years in prison for mercenarism as part of the illegal armed formation in Donbas after the Russian Federation refused to grant him asylum.
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