Section: Human Rights Watch (USA)
Ukraine: Mixed Record on Rights, Cautious Hope for Reform
Expand Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov, jailed on groundless terrorism charges in Russia, hugs his daughter at a welcoming ceremony at Borispil International Airport outside Kiev, following a Russia-Ukraine prisoner swap, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in attendance. September 7, 2019. © 2019 REUTERS/Gleb Garanich (Kyiv) –...
UN recommendations should serve as roadmap to rights protection & reform in Ukraine
Human Rights Watch welcomes the new report of the UN Human Rights Office on the situation in Ukraine. We urge the Ukrainian authorities to embrace its recommendations as a matter of priority. We are concerned that the government continues to require people living in non-government controlled areas to register as internally displaced and regularly...
100 States Support Norway’s Initiative to Protect Schools
Expand Damaged school in Nikishine. Rebel fighters deployed inside the school between September 2014 and February 2015 and exchanged intense fire with Ukrainian forces. © 2015 Yulia Gorbunova/Human Rights Watch The news this week that Ukraine has become the 100th country to endorse the Safe Schools Declaration—a Norwegian initiative to make...
Ukraine’s Maidan Victims Still Await Justice
Expand A man lays flowers to the memorial of dead Maidan activists during the anniversary in Kyiv © Pavlo Gonchar (Sipa via AP Images) A lawyer who represents families of activists killed during Maidan protests in Kyiv in the winter of 2013 to 2014 has gone on a hunger strike. Evgeniya Zakrevskaya is protesting …read more Source:: Human...
Ukraine Becomes 100th Country to Endorse Safe Schools Declaration
Expand School in Nikishine, eastern Ukraine, damaged during fighting between Ukrainian government and rebel forces from Aug. 2014 to Feb. 2015. © 2015 Yulia Gorbunova Ukraine has chosen World Children’s Day to announce its endorsement of the Safe Schools Declaration, an international political commitment to make schools safe even during...
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...
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...
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...
