The Crimean Tatar Resource Center sent a report to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the topic Importance of registering victims for the promotion and protection of human rights.
The report was made available for the creation of the thematic report of the High Commissioner to the Human Rights Council in accordance with resolution 50/11.
The CTRC provided information that since its foundation in 2015, the organization’s experts have been monitoring and recording human rights violations in the territory of the temporarily occupied Crimea, and since February 2022, they have been recording war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Russian troops in Ukraine.
“Due to the fact that the CTRC timely recorded and sent information to the UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances, more than 60 people who were abducted in the new occupied territories of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions during 2022 returned home alive or their whereabouts were found out”,— says the document.
Considering that information and recording of the crimes of the Russian Federation is an important and key element in the process of establishing the truth and administration of justice, the CTRC has developed an electronic register of war crimes, crimes against humanity and human rights violations committed by Russia in Ukraine.
A separate important aspect in recording crimes is to ensure that the perpetrators are brought to justice and the fight against impunity. That is why the CTRC has been working since 2018 on the introduction of personal sanctions against persons responsible for human rights violations, similar to the Magnitsky Act.
“CTRC is convinced that bringing to justice the perpetrators of these terrible crimes is a reliable preventive mechanism to prevent their recurrence in the future. Since it was the impunity of the organizers and executors of the Deportation of the Crimean Tatar people in 1944, which has signs of genocide, that led to the continuation of such a policy by Russia in the occupied Crimea since 2014 and its spread to the entire territory of Ukraine in 2022”,- the organization added.
