Ukraine vs Russia at the ICJ: It is not Ukraine commiting genocide, but Russia committing war crimes in Ukraine
In its case Ukraine vs Russia, Ukraine requested the International court of Justice (ICJ) to intervene in the…
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“An attempt to ban memory.” Why Russia wants to shut down its top human rights NGO Memorial
Russia has moved one step closer to shut down Memorial, Russia’s most famous human rights organization, accusing it…
Jailed Russian historian exposing Soviet crimes awarded Sakharov prize
Today, on the 100th anniversary of Andrey Sakharov’s (1921-1989) birth, the Norwegian Helsinki Committee will present the 2021…
Three warders who tortured prisoners in occupied Donbas “concentration camp” ID’d as Russian citizens
Ukrainian journalist Stanislav Aseyev, a former captive of the Russian-run “Donetsk People’s Republic,” has reported on his Facebook…
First public photos of Russian-run Donetsk concentration camp leaked online
Cells, torture tools, and the yard: these are the first-ever public photos of the Russian-hybrid-forces-run Izolyatsia prison. The…
Ukrainian human rights group that helped bring down Soviet Union turns 44
In the mid-1970s, political confrontation between the USSR and the West reached such heights that it threatened to…
Donetsk art center turned into concentration camp: former hostages share their memories
Over the five years of its existence, several hundred people – both militants and locals suspected of spying…
Ukraine is gathering personal data to combat COVID-19. How safe is that?
The primary deployment of digital technology that Ukraine used to combat the novel coronavirus was the introduction of…
Ukraine rehabilitates first living victim of Communist regime
The press service of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance stated that the National Rehabilitation Commission has recognized…
Russia’s return to PACE is bad news for the human rights situation in Russia – Nikolai Polozov
The Russian delegation’s return to PACE without fulfilling the obligations imposed by the resolutions of this organization, as…
First int’l human rights mission since occupation reports on how Russia crushes opposition in Crimea
The mission to Crimea met with more than 50 people, including victims of human rights violations and their…
Carols against the USSR: the tragic 1972 Vertep and KGB’s mass arrests of Ukrainian dissidents (photos)
12 January is marked in Ukraine as the day of the Ukrainian political prisoner. On this day in 1972, the KGB began massively arresting Ukrainian Shistdesyatnyky, ("Sixtiers"), a literary movement that arose in protest to the Soviet Union's destruction of everything Ukrainian, as they were enacting a Vertep, or Ukrainian Christmas caroling performance.
Human rights for the Kremlin: sometimes a bogeyman, sometimes a friend on demand
Pro-Kremlin news sites have an ambiguous view of international organizations (especially those related to human rights) and their…
NGOs worldwide call upon Ukrainian authorities to stop persecuting anti-corruption activists
NGOs from Europe, USA, and other countries call upon the Ukrainian authorities to stop persecuting anti-corruption activists in…
BBC: How the “DNR” special services & troll factory scare Russians with terror attacks
Masked faces, distorted voices, poses from action movies and ready-to-use firearms – the Russian-language Internet is full of…
The humanitarian factor in Russia’s hybrid war
The recent release of convicted Crimean Tatar leaders Ilmi Umerov and Akhmet Chiygoz marks the first release of…
Experts see Ukraine’s membership in UN Human Rights Council as “counterweight against Russia”
Bohdan Kryklyvenko, the head of the Secretariat of the Verkhovna Rada’s Commissioner for Human Rights, is certain that…
Human trafficking scheme forced hundreds of Ukrainians into drug trade in Russia
All “couriers” are tracked via mobile phones that recruiters give them free of charge while they are still…
Ukrainian human right coalition condemns government attacks on NGOs under “Kremlin agent” pretext
Human rights activists accuse the government of attacks on civil society. The Human Rights Agenda platform, an informal…
Russia and its authoritarian friends lag increasingly behind its free enemies, Illarionov says
Not only are the countries Russians identify as friendly more likely to be authoritarian and poor than those…