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Teachers under occupation: who should be punished for collaboration and what are the problems in the legislation
In Ukraine, since about November 2022, after the liberation of the temporarily occupied city of Kherson, there has been a professional, legal, and emotional discussion about how to approach the issue of educators’ work under occupation. Was there collaboration, or were many people forced to cooperate with the enemy? Now, law enforcement officers are investigating the […]
Russians killed at least 44 and injured 150 Ukrainians in their attack on Ukraine cities
Plumes of smoke could be seen across the capital of Ukraine, while video posted on social media showed the destruction inside and outside of the Okhmadyt children's hospital
Wagner Group mercenaries may be involved in the militarization of Ukrainian teenagers in Belarus
After seizing parts of Ukrainian territory, Russia began using militarization in education to change the identity of Ukrainian children. According to the Almenda Center for Civic Education, at least 35,000 children have already been enrolled in the so-called Yunarmiya (the All-Russia Young Army National Military Patriotic Social Movement Association) in Ukraine’s temporarily occupied territories, and […]
Russia militarizes education and erases cultural identity of children in temporarily occupied Crimea – UN and Amnesty International
The International Court of Justice found that the way in which Russia had implemented its educational system in Crimea after 2014 with regard to school education in the Ukrainian language had violated its obligations under Articles 2(1)(a) and 5(v) of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
Re-education under the guise of recovery: how Belarus helps Russia to take Ukrainian children from the occupied territories
There is more and more information that the Republic of Belarus joined the deportation of Ukrainian children from the occupied territories of Ukraine. And even the analysis of open data suggests that the country’s leadership is involved in this process, not only its citizens. After all, it will not be possible to take children from […]
Ukraine: Ten victories in human rights in 2023
ZMINA has compiled the most significant developments and events in the field of human rights that took place in 2023 in Ukraine
Life without basics: Struggle of Zakhar’s Family in war-torn Mariupol
We were lucky, because not all people were missed by shells and not all returned alive. More than a year has passed since the day we escaped from occupied Mariupol
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
Older people and some families with children refuse to leave the evacuation areas in Kharkiv region
The head of the Kupyansk city military administration emphasized that the evacuation is not mandatory, so those who do not want to leave can refuse by writing a statement
Signs of genocide: Russia’s crimes against children – Report
Human rights defenders concluded that these processes are carried out on the initiative and with the broad support of the Russian leadership, which aims to destroy the ties of Ukrainian children with their national group and make it impossible for them to return to Ukraine
Russians handed under “preliminary custody” over a thousand children deported from Ukraine
According to the data collected by Vazhnye Istorii, at least three times more children may be transferred to Russian families than the official claims
Discussion “Human Rights in School: How to Promote Values among Children”
The event is devoted to discussion of the current situation and prospects for teaching human rights to children within the framework of implementation of the National Human Rights Strategy and presentation of experience of other countr
Ukrainian is on a hunger strike in a Russian prison. He demands to serve his sentence in Ukraine
Yevgeniy Davydov is on a hunger strike since July 28
Russia refused to extradite 21former “Berkut” officers to Ukraine
Russia has not yet provided an answer to a request to extradite Serhiy Kusyuk, former Chief of the Kyiv “Berkut” Special Operations Regiment
Perpetrators from Zaporizhia exported Ukrainian women into sexual slavery in Israel
The perpetrators received from 500 to 1000 dollars for each woman
This year LGBTI displaced people face double discrimination in accessing housing and searching for employment
Discrimination of internally displaced LGBTI-representatives also occurred when accessing health care
Ukrainian journalists in Vienna named 50 freedom of speech violators in Crimea
The presentation of the list took place in the framework of the OSCE conference “Freedom of speech in unstable situations”
In Kremenchuk colony teenagers were cutting their veins and rioting because of the attitude of the staff
The Prosecutor's Office is conducting a check
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Six most common Russian propaganda narratives used against Ukrainians
Working in the occupied territories: what international humanitarian law says about it
Teachers under occupation: who should be punished for collaboration and what are the problems in the legislation
Crimean courage: risking freedom for Ukrainian identity
