Human Rights Centre ZMINA
“Everything depends on us”: Tetiana Pechonchyk on building Ukraine’s human rights infrastructure amid war
Tetiana Pechonchyk grew up in a village contaminated by the Chornobyl fallout, where her parents measured mushrooms with a dosimeter before putting them on the table. She organised her first protest as a schoolgirl - calling on her classmates to boycott the unpaid fieldwork in the collective farm fields - and has never really stopped since
Kyiv Commercial Court Judge Inna Otrosh has called for a probe into the activities of NGOs involved in judicial reform, including Human Rights Centre ZMINA
The judge also urged an appeal to international donors to cease funding certain organizations, specifically the DEJURE Foundation, and to investigate potential corruption risks in the activities of the Public Integrity Council (PIC) members. Furthermore, she proposed either abolishing the PIC entirely or banning funding for its operations
“The father did not find out where Raim was before his death”: why Russia transfers Crimean political prisoners as far as possible from their relatives
Human rights activists consider this to be one of the Russians' methods of putting pressure on those who disagree with the occupation policy in Crimea
In occupied Crimea, human rights defenders have recorded more than 30 cases of pressure on media professionals and citizen journalists since the beginning of the year
During 2022-2023, ZMINA recorded 162 of such cases
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The lesson of Crimea: Rewarding aggression only invites more war
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