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Ukrainian Parliament Human Rights Committee commenced its activity by representing meeting in the Kherson region of Ukraine.

Ukrainian Parliament Human Rights Committee commenced its activity by representing meeting in the Kherson region of Ukraine

At the meeting carried at the Governor Building of Kherson, the committee’s work plan for the region has discussed. Besides, members of the Ukrainian Parliament Human Rights Committee discussed the problems faced by Crimean residents and internal refugees who had to move to the main part of Ukraine...

Spiritual Valediction for the President on the Threshold of Another Round of Negotiations 06/12/2019 In the evening of 4 December, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy invited the country’s spiritual leaders in order to hear their spiritual valediction on the threshold of a very important and difficult meeting in the Normandy format. Speaking about the event, Mufti Said Ismagilov noted that the guests...	Ukrinform: De-occupation of Crimea remains one of OSCE tasks 30/09/2019 Restoration of the territorial integrity of Ukraine and de-occupation of Crimea should remain the main task of all international organizations, including the OSCE. Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Refat Chubarov said this at the 2019 Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in...
Russia-controlled Donbas “republics” remove Ukrainian language from schools 30/09/2019 Although Russia repeatedly claims that Russian speakers were under threat in Crimea and Donbas, it is the Ukrainian language that has come under attack as soon as Russia took actual or effective control. That is the case also with Ukrainian history and culture. In the self-proclaimed Donetsk and...	Russia arrests & terrorizes entire Crimean Tatar families a day after denying persecution at International Court 14/06/2019 The Russian FSB has carried out new armed searches and arrests of Crimean Tatars, with an elderly mother, whose second son has been taken from her, threatened with a pistol and told that the FSB will get around to shooting them all. This new ‘operation’ came the day after hearings ended at the UN’...
More than 70 Crimean Tatar activists put on trial simultaneously in brazen crackdown 21/12/2017 Reacting to the simultaneous trials today of more than 70 Crimean Tatar activists charged after they each staged peaceful, individual demonstrations across multiple locations in the Russia-occupied Crimean peninsula, Oksana Pokalchuk, Amnesty International Ukraine’s Executive Director, said: “The...	Human Rights Watch: Тиск на мусульман у Криму посилюється 14/11/2017 Russian authorities in Crimea have intensified persecution of Crimean Tatars, under various pretexts and with the apparent goal of completely silencing dissent on the peninsula, Human Rights Watch said today. Crimean Tatars are a Muslim ethnic minority indigenous to the Crimean Peninsula. Many...
Ilmi Umerov and Ahmet Chiygoz are free! 26/10/2017 Two Crimean Tatars who were imprisoned for opposing Russia's annexation of Crimea from Ukraine have been freed and flown to Turkey, their families and lawyers say. Ahmet Chiygoz and Ilmi Umerov were released after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan personally intervened on their behalf,...	New attack on Crimean Tatar rights lawyer Emil Kurbedinov 30/03/2017 Crimean Tatar rights lawyer Emil Kurbedinov has been summoned for questioning and informed he is facing a preliminary criminal investigation on absurd charges. This is the latest overt offensive against Kurbedinov and other lawyers defending Russia’s ever-increasing number of political prisoners...
"Vaccination against prejudices" for the future of Ukrainian journalism 08/08/2016 When people face the regular set of cliché about their social group in the media, the reaction can be very different. Someone is angry and makes a vow not to talk to journalists. Someone complains that "journalists are incorrigible: give them a stir, or they will make the stir by themselves"....	Kyiv asking UN Human Rights Council to urge Russia to open access for intl organizations to Crimea 03/03/2016 Foreign Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin has called on the UN Human Rights Council to press on Russia to open access for international organizations to Crimea. "The constant presence of international organizations, including the UN, the Council of Europe and the OSCE must be allowed on the...

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