Section: Human Rights Watch (USA)
Crimea: Conscription Violates International Law
Expand Russian Marine Corps conscripts stand in formation as they take the oath in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol, Crimea December 9, 2017. © 2017 REUTERS/Pavel Rebrov (Kyiv) – Russian authorities are conscripting males in occupied Crimea to serve in the Russian armed forces, Human Rights Watch said today. International humanitarian law...
Living as an Internally Displaced Person in Ukraine
Expand Older people crossing the broken bridge at the Stanytsia Luhanska checkpoint. November 6, 2018. © 2018 Stanislav KrasilnikovTASS via Getty Images On a hot August day, I stood in line at the Migration Service of Ukraine. I had just gotten married and needed to change my last name in my passport. For most Ukrainians, …read more...
Russia/Ukraine Prisoner Exchange Includes Release of Oleg Sentsov
Expand Родичі зустрічають Олега Сенцова у київському аеропорту “Бориспіль». 7 вересня 2019 р. © Анастасія Магазова, 2019 After several increasingly tense weeks amid swirling rumors, a much-anticipated large-scale prisoner swap has finally happened between Russia and Ukraine. Among those who arrived in Kyiv this Saturday afternoon, newly...
Russia Jails Crimean Tatar Blogger on Bogus ‘Terrorism’ Charges
Expand Crimean blogger and activist Nariman Memedeminov at his court hearing, Rostov-on-Don, Russia, October 2, 2019. © 2019 Anton Naumlyik (Grati) A Russian military court today sentenced activist and blogger Nariman Memedeminov to two and a half years in prison for “making public calls for terrorism.” The prosecution was just the latest in the...
Ukraine: Joint NGO Letter on ICC Treaty Ratification
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Your Excellency, We respectfully call on your government to immediately ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, which Ukraine signed in 2000 and take all necessary measures to fight impunity for grave international crimes at the domestic level. Our organisations, the Coalition for the...
Ukraine: Investigate Journalist’s Killing
(Kyiv) – Ukrainian authorities should ensure an effective and impartial investigation into the killing of Vadym Komarov, an investigative journalist who died in Kyiv on June 20, 2019, Human Rights Watch said today. Komarov had severe head injuries from an attack by an unidentified assailant on May 4, 2019. Komarov, 58, lived and worked in...
Ukraine: Pension Issues, Crossing Conditions
Expand An older man with a disability sits on an old luggage cart preparing to cross the Stanitsa Luhanska border point in Eastern Ukraine. With wheelchairs rarely available, older people and others with mobility disabilities may resort to crossing by carts or sleds pushed by strangers, for a fee. April 6, 2018. © 2018 John Wendle for Human...
EU Should Encourage Ukraine Government to Do More for Human Rights
On Monday, the EU-Ukraine summit will take place in Kyiv – the first for Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy since he took office in May. This summit – the 21st – is an important opportunity for the EU to reaffirm its expectations of Ukraine in terms of human rights protections. Expand …read more Source:: Human Rights...
One Step Closer to Justice for MH17 Victims
Expand Officials from the Joint Investigation Team probing the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in 2014 appear at a press conference in Nieuwegein, Netherlands, on Wednesday, June 19, 2019. © 2019 AP Photo/Mike Corder At a press conference in the Netherlands this afternoon, international investigators announced that the Public Prosecution...
Video: Crimean Tatars Face Unfounded Terrorism Charges
(Berlin, July 12, 2019) – Russian authorities have brought unfounded terrorism charges against 24 Crimean Tatars, 20 of whom were arrested during heavily armed raids on their homes in the spring of this year, Human Rights Watch said today. Security officers tortured four of the men, denied lawyers access to search sites, planted evidence, and...
