The Crimean Tatar Resource Center has prepared a report on the topic Crimea: Urbanization and Indigenous Peoples. This document, which was posted via the OHCHR website, has already been reviewed by the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples.
Mr. Francisco Cali Tsai is preparing an annual report on The Situation of Indigenous Peoples Living in Urban Areas, which will be presented at the 76th session of the UN General Assembly. CTRC materials will be used to create this document.
We remind you that on March 16, the Crimean Tatar Resource Center sent a report to the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples on the topic Crimea: Urbanization and Indigenous Peoples.
The report emphasizes that since the beginning of the occupation, the Russian Federation has been implementing a policy of active colonization of the Crimean peninsula, the homeland of the indigenous Crimean Tatar people. As a result of this policy, the population of Crimea over the past seven years has increased from 2.5 million to 3.2 million people. At the same time, about 30 thousand representatives of the indigenous Crimean Tatar people, due to repressions, were forced to leave Crimea.