human rights
“In Ukraine, wherever we are – we are at home”: the story of a Roma couple from Zaporizhzhia who help others overcome the challenges of war and discrimination
Read the interview to find out how Roma find the strength to live on in the difficult realities of war, why it is important to break down the walls of discrimination that divide society, and how the Roma community, despite all the difficulties, helps Ukraine recover and become stronger.
HRDs in war conflict: Ukrainian human rights activists in Great Britain reminded the world about the Crimean political prisoners
The event brought together more than 50 human rights defenders, lawyers and activists from all over the world
“30 years ago, it was hard to imagine that a Roma woman could create an organisation”: activist Yuliia Kondur on the importance of women’s leadership
The importance of education for Roma children and youth, the development of the Roma women's movement, the difficulties faced by Roma women today, and how their activism and resilience help to rebuild the country – read more in the interview.
Rapid response to discrimination against LGBTIQ people at work: How can companies protect their employees?
As a queer person who is open about his or her orientation, I can say that constant control over what you say, post, and who you communicate with creates pressure. This not only affects your mental state, but also reduces productivity, because energy is spent on self-control rather than on work tasks
By December 31, 2024: occupiers are coercing residents of Donetsk region into obtaining Russian passports through blackmail.
Otherwise they will not be able to "receive the rights and benefits provided by Russia"
“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 Crimea, the occupiers arrested 26 locals for Ukrainian symbols over the year
In total, from June 2023 to June 2024, the experts of the organisation verified 59 cases of prosecution of Crimeans under the norms of the Russian Federation's so called “anti-extremist laws” for demonstrating pro-Ukrainian views
On the left bank of the Kherson region, occupiers threaten to take away the property of people in eight communities
The occupiers demand that their owners bring property documents and a Russian passport to the village of Shchaslyvtseve in the Henichesk community within 30 days
“Our priority is to ensure victim-centered justice” – Interview with the Head of the Peace and Human Rights Program at the Swiss Embassy in Ukraine
On the eve of the summit, Vannay Gaetan, Head of the Peace and Human Rights Program at the Swiss Embassy in Ukraine, told ZMINA how his country is helping Ukraine in the war by searching for missing persons, conducting humanitarian demining, and ensuring justice for victims
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
Gafarov-Shyring list: how Russia is killing political prisoners in Crimea
Tetyana Pechonchyk emphasized the importance of publicizing information about political prisoners. In her opinion, it is essential to tell the stories of illegally imprisoned Ukrainian citizens, spread them on social media and abroad, put pressure on Russia, initiate new resolutions of the European Parliament, and raise issues at the level of the OSCE and UN bodies so that Ukrainian citizens, political prisoners at risk with complex diseases, are released first and unconditionally
Political prisoner Server Mustafayev shares about poor conditions in Russian prison and lack of medical aid
Maye Mustafayeva and her and Server’s children, eight-year-old Yusuf and five-year-old Naji visited the political prisoner in Tambov prison. The family was allowed to come for an extended three-day visit from July 3 to 6
In Crimea a witness of searches in Bakhchysarai is fined 150,000 rubles
Protocols were drawn up on two twin brothers, but only one was fined
Ukraine will complement Avdiivka to claim to International Court of Justice against Russia
The shelling of civilian infrastructure – is a serious crime..."
‘It is another plan of FSB’, Mejlis Chairman Chubarov comments on detentions in Crimea
He believes Russia is plotting another attack on Ukraine
Ukrainians keep complaining about procedural violations despite new Code of Criminal Procedure
The number of complaints about procedural violations in the criminal proceedings has not changed even after the adoption of the new Code of Criminal Procedure
Freedom House describes Russia’s Duma elections in Crimea as ‘anything but free and fair’
The voting was anything but free and fair
UN report: 188 civilian casualties in eastern Ukraine over three months
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights states that human rights situation in eastern Ukraine deteriorated
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“The number is not answering, but I can hear you”: A letter to a peer in occupation from a 10th grade student
Justice cannot be subject to political pressure
Putin tries to exterminate us as a nation, as Hitler tried to exterminate the Jewish people during World War II
Why African countries believe Russian propaganda and how to prevent it
