On October 17-19, managers of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center Zarema Bariieva and Liudmyla Korotkykh took part in the 83rd session of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women in Geneva. Representatives of the CTRC told the UN about the violation of the rights of indigenous Crimean Tatar women.
In particular, Zarema Bariieva and Liudmyla Korotkykh, as well as representatives of other women's human rights organizations from Ukraine, took part in an informal meeting – a briefing with members of the committee, during which they informed the members of the committee about the violation of women's rights in Ukraine, violations caused by unjustified Russian aggression and the situation of women who live in the territory not controlled by Ukraine.
In addition, during the 83rd session of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, Zarema Bariieva made a report where she spoke in detail about the situation of indigenous Crimean Tatar women both in the occupied Crimea, as well as in the new occupied territories of Kherson and Zaporoizhzhia regions.
Members of the Committee were informed that due to the ban on the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people by Russia, hundreds of indigenous Crimean Tatar women are limited in their right to exercise their own representative functions. Also, with the beginning of the occupation of Crimea, the occupation administration systematically persecuted women lawyers defending the political prisoners of the Kremlin.
Representatives of the CRC drew the Committee's experts' attention to the fact that the situation with women among the indigenous Crimean Tatars is practically not reflected in the 9th periodic report submitted by Ukraine under the simplified reporting procedure for consideration by the Committee. As a recommendation, the committee was asked to study the issues of women's involvement in the peacebuilding process and the role of women in the negotiation process to achieve sustainable peace, as well as to develop a mechanism for the effective protection of indigenous women persecuted by the state.
A more complete report, based on data recorded by the Crimean Tatar Resource Center for 8 years of occupation of Crimea and 8 months of full-scale war in Ukraine with a number of recommendations, will soon be published on the website of the 83rd session of the CEDAW