On Tuesday, August 23, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine adopted a normative legal act The procedure for securing the legal status of the representative body of the indigenous people of Ukraine and depriving such status.
On the eve of the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, the Crimean Tatar Resource Center launches a test developed as part of the #LIBERATECRIMEA information campaign. Every Ukrainian will be able to test one’s knowledge about this day by answering 10 questions.
On Tuesday, August 9, the Head of the Board of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center Eskender Bariiev and the manager of the CTRC Liudmyla Korotkykh took part in an interactive round table Preserving the identity of indigenous peoples in the face of war and global challenges of the 21st century, organized by the Bohdan Khmelnytskyy Melitopol State Pedagogical University with the support of the Council of Europe.
On Tuesday, August 9, the Crimean Tatar Resource Center and the State Service of Ukraine for Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Conscience held a briefing on the occasion of the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, during which the speakers spoke about the situation of the indigenous peoples of Ukraine in the context of a full-scale war.
The Crimean Tatar Resource Center starts a social media storm dedicated to the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples. We encourage everyone to be a part of this campaign.
On August 9, Ukraine and the whole world celebrate the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples.
On Thursday, July 21, the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine hosted a consultation meeting with the ethnic communities of Ukraine, which expressed their solidarity in the struggle to restore the territorial integrity of Ukraine.
On Thursday, May 5, the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, the Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the UN held a side event within the framework of the 21st session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Peoples on the topic: Russian military Aggression against Ukraine: Impact on Indigenous Peoples.
Head of the Board of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, Head of the Department of Legal and Foreign Affairs of Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People Eskender Bariiev spoke at the 21st session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Peoples under item 5a Dialogue with Indigenous Peoples [Interactive Dialogue] of the agenda.
Manager of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center Zarema Bariieva spoke at the 21st session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Peoples in the framework of item 5a “Dialogue of the Forum with indigenous peoples.”. In her speech, she spoke about the situation of the Crimean Tatar language in the occupied Crimea, as well as what the CTRC is doing to preserve and develop the language of the indigenous people of Ukraine.
On Tuesday, December 28, a meeting of the Public Council under the State Service of Ukraine on Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Conscience was held, during which Eskender Bariiev, Head of the Board of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, was elected Chairman of this council.
On Friday, September 10, the Head of the Department of Legal Affairs and Foreign Affairs of Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, the Head of the Board of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center Eskender Bariiev held a working meeting with the Head of the State Service of Ukraine for Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Conscience Olena Bohdan and the department's lawyers.
The Crimean Tatar Resource Center with the support of the Open Society Foundation held an international expert online discussion on the topic “International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples as an instrument for protection the rights of indigenous peoples ”. At the event, representatives of the world's indigenous peoples spoke out in support of the Crimean Tatar people and stated the importance of consolidating and using UN mechanisms to realize their rights. Ukrainian experts stressed the need for legal regulation of the status of indigenous peoples in Ukraine.
On Monday, June 15, the Head of the Board of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, a member of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Eskender Bariiev and the CTRC manager Liudmyla Korotkykh took part in a meeting (via videoconference) of the thematic group to develop a draft Decree of the President of Ukraine On Amendments to the Decree of the President of Ukraine dated 25 August 2015 No. 501/2015 On the approval of the National Strategy for Human Rights. Representatives of the CTRC made a number of proposals in the direction of Ensuring the rights of indigenous peoples and national minorities.
The Crimean Tatar Resource Center sent to the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP) materials on the burial of Crimean Tatars in places of deportation, which will be used in the preparation of a report “Repatriation of ceremonial objects and human remains under the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
The Crimean Tatar Resource Center received a response from the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine to a letter reminding that the Mejlis, in its statement dated November 17, 2019, confirms the natural rights of the indigenous Crimean Tatar people on the occupied peninsula. The SMM, in turn, thanked the CTRC for drawing attention to this issue.
The Crimean Tatar Resource Center submitted a report to the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous peoples on the topic “The Right to Land in accordance with the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples”.
In Kyiv, a working meeting of the leadership of the Representative Office of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea with the representatives of Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, delegates of the Qurultay of the Crimean Tatar People and public organizations was held. At the meeting, the Head of the Board of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, a member of the Mejlis Eskender Bariiev said that in the near future the CTRC and the Mejlis will present a draft national action plan for the protection of indigenous peoples of Ukraine to the President of Ukraine.
In Kyiv, a working meeting of the leadership of the Representative Office of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea with the representatives of Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, delegates of the Qurultay of the Crimean Tatar People and public organizations was held. At the meeting, the Head of the Board of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, a member of the Mejlis Eskender Bariiev said that in the near future the CTRC and the Mejlis will present a draft national action plan for the protection of indigenous peoples of Ukraine to the President of Ukraine.
On Wednesday, December 11, the Crimean Tatar Resource Center and the Pylyp Orlyk Institute for Democracy organized a workshop "How to ensure the realization of the rights of indigenous peoples in Ukraine?" within the framework of the National Human Rights Non-Conference. The participants of the event developed recommendations in the field of implementation of the collective rights of indigenous peoples in Ukraine.