On Saturday, November 7, the Crimean Tatar Resource Center (CTRC), with the support of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Ukraine, launched the IV Academy of Public Diplomacy of the Crimean Tatar People. The training includes six sessions. Qualified mentors and experts are giving lectures on the peculiarities and trends of world politics, the human rights violations in Crimea, advocacy campaigns, international mechanisms for human rights protection, the role of visual language and design in global campaigns, etc.
The first session of the IV Academy of Public Diplomacy of the Crimean Tatars was opened by Eskender Bariiev,Head of the Board of the CTRC and member of Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, Iryna Starovytska, Project Manager of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Ukraine and Belarus, and Zarema Bariieva, Manager of the CTRC.
Irina Starovytska told the participants about the history, objectives, and peculiarities of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation's work and its activities in Ukraine.
Svitlana Andrushchenko, Ph.D., Associate Professor of the Institute of International Relations of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, told the activists about the modern geopolitical structure of the world, tendencies in the world politics, and current geopolitical trends.
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Eskender Bariiev, Head of the Board of the CTRC, member of Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, told future people's diplomats about the occupied Crimea situation. In particular, he mentioned the problems and prospects of human rights violations and the ban of Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people. According to the speaker, searches, detentions, interrogations, and arrests have become a regular practice in Crimea after the occupation of the peninsula, as evidenced by the statistics that the CTRC systematically maintains. Eskender Bariiev demonstrated to the participants the electronic database "Victims of the Occupation of Crimea," which is available on the organization's website in 4 languages and displays the current number of political prisoners and those who went missing and died during the occupation period of Crimea.
According to the organizers, within the six sessions framework, activists will be trained under qualified specialists' mentorship to inform the international community about human rights violations in Crimea and repressions against the indigenous Crimean Tatar people.
The Academy of Public Diplomacy of the Crimean Tatars is implemented with the support of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Ukraine.