On 26 February 2022, Russia blocked a UN Security Council (UNSC) Resolution on Ukraine condemning the start of Russia’s war against Ukraine, despite having an obvious conflict of interests in the area. The Helsinki Final Act of 1975...
The controversial agreement allows for China’s investments in Ukrainian railway transit, airports and ports infrastructure construction, communications and municipal engineering projects. And it has already been clinched that China...
For the first time in history, an official UN event heard an address delivered in the Erzya language. Syres Boliayen’s secretariat provided for translation from Erzya to English. The speech was broadcast on UN Web TV. National flags...
The Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly has recently approved a newly revised draft resolution titled “Situation of human rights in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, Ukraine.”...
On May 9, Ukraine’s permanent delegation to the United Nations held a side event at the 40th Session of the UN Committee on Information Security dedicated to propaganda and fake news. It was attended not only by Ukrainian...
On December 19, the UN General Assembly voted in support of a resolution on the human rights situation in Crimea entitled “Situation of human rights in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, Ukraine”...
Bohdan Kryklyvenko, the head of the Secretariat of the Verkhovna Rada’s Commissioner for Human Rights, is certain that the UN HRC will become yet another forum through which Ukraine may return the world’s attention to the...
“We have documented reliable allegations of serious human rights violations and abuses, committed by a paramilitary formation, the Crimean Self-Defense, as well as by members of the police, and the Federal Security Service of the...
Poroshenko stressed that there is undeniable proof of Russian involvement in the conflict as he showed the military IDs: “The Russia’s mantra that ‘we are not there’ does not hold water. There are undeniable...
A UN reform is needed A comprehensive reform of the Security Council is long overdue. When the UN was set up, it was designed to maintain peace and security in the world based on principles of respect for sovereignty and...
Putin’s goals and philosophy Sławomir Sierakowski: What is Putin’s ultimate goal in this war? Timothy Snyder: That’s no big secret: to destroy Ukraine as a state and exterminate Ukrainians as a nation. I’d...
