Belarus
Russia сontinues illegal child deportations despite ICC arrest warrants – Almenda’s report
Despite International Criminal Court arrest warrants issued in March 2023 against Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova for child deportations, Russia continues its practices. In 2024, the scale of unlawful child transfers has increased, with camp programs explicitly aimed at destroying Ukrainian children's national identity, human rights advocates emphasise
Ukraine rejects “pacifying the aggressor” as a path to peace
Refat Chubarov urged continued use of the Ukrainian Peace Formula to increase political and diplomatic pressure on dictator Putin and his supporters
Wagner Group mercenaries may be involved in the militarization of Ukrainian teenagers in Belarus
ZMINA has learned that mercenaries from the private military company “Wagner Group” conducted training in some of the military camps where Ukrainian teenagers were brought
Re-education under the guise of recovery: how Belarus helps Russia to take Ukrainian children from the occupied territories
About who illegally is taking children from the occupied territories and how they are trying to re-educate them in Belarus, read the article
Parliamentarians from 51 countries reaffirmed Ukraine’s territorial integrity: Key moments from the Second Parliamentary Summit of the International Crimean Platform
At the end of the plenary session, a Joint Declaration was signed by the participants of the summit, affirming the territorial integrity of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders, including Crimea and Sevastopol, as well as assurance of the sovereignty of Ukraine as necessary preconditions for ending the war and establishing lasting peace in the region
Ukraine must join NATO: eliminating security grey areas in Europe
We must stand with Ukraine until its total victory. That must be very clear to everyone: no semi-peace or other kind of settlements but a victory with regained occupied territories with Zelensky's Peace Formula.
Activists identified the route by which children from the occupied Ukrainian territories are deported to Belarus
The group presented its findings in a research paper released in early August 2023
In Crimea a new criminal case was opened against Ukrainian activist Volodymyr Balukh
Head of the Rozdolnensky isolator filed a complaint
In ORDLO militants abducted a businessman from Krasnodon – KHPG
The man was abducted on June 30 near the parking lot of the "Prometheus" shopping center in Luhansk
Ukrainian Girl with Biometric Passport Wasn’t Allowed to Board a Bus to Bulgaria
Ecolines international carrier stated that they follow ‘their own laws’
“We see everything”: In Kyiv near the Belarusian embassy activists demanded to release detainees
Activists put forward demands to international organizations
OMON breaks into Human Rights Center Viasna in Minsk
Belarusian security forces detained human rights defenders and volunteers, including citizens of other countries
Mejlis to file appeal against its ban with ECHR
The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation judgment on prohibition of the Mejlis of Crimean Tatar people will be challenged in ECHR
Reports on protest against Russian airbase drawn up in Minsk
The Belarusian activists are charged with violating the order of organizing protest actions.
Activists Advocate for the Creation of a Singlebody Dealing with IDPs
Civil society activists advocate the establishment of a single body dealing with all matters relating to internally displaced persons
Putin Could be Put on Trial in The Hague for the Georgian Conflict
In 2015, the International Criminal Court (ICC) is going to open an investigation of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during and after the Russian-Georgian war of 2008
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More than 60 Crimean political prisoners are already in need of urgent medical care: How to solve this problem
Ukrainian parliament appeals for NATO membership as foundation for lasting peace
Ukraine rejects “pacifying the aggressor” as a path to peace
“Appeasement never works”: Lessons from Bosnia’s post-war justice
