General information: Since 2019, the Crimean Tatar Resource Center has been working actively with countries to recognize the Deportation of the Crimean Tatar people in 1944 as an act of genocide. On June 2, 2020, the Verkhovna Rada adopted a resolution calling on the United Nations, the European Parliament, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, the BSEC Parliamentary Assembly, the governments and parliaments of the world to recognize the deportation of the Crimean Tatars in 1944 as an act of genocide of the Crimean Tatar people. Today, in addition to Ukraine, 3 more countries have recognized Deportation as an act of genocide, and the work is being conducted in this direction with more than 40 countries. The following package of documents was sent to the parliament of each country:
– Letter of appeal of the CTRC on recognition of Deportation as an act of genocide;
– Letter of appeal of Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people on recognition of Deportation as genocide;
– Copy of the Verkhovna Rada Resolution on the Appeal of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine to the United Nations, the European Parliament, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, the Parliamentary Assembly of the BSEC, the governments and parliaments of the countries of the world regarding honoring the victims of the genocide of the Crimean Tatar people and condemning the violations of the Russian Federation as an aggressor state of the rights and freedoms of the Crimean Tatar people;
– Legal qualification of the deportation of the Crimean Tatar people as an international crime against the indigenous people made by the experts of the CTRC;
– Copy of the Resolution of the Verkhovna Rada on recognition of the genocide of the Crimean Tatar people;
– Copy of the Resolution of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania “On recognition of destruction of the Crimean Tatars by the Soviet Union as genocide”;
– Copy of the Resolution of the Saeima of the Republic of Latvia “On the 75th anniversary of the deportation of the Crimean Tatars and support for the policy of non-recognition of the illegal annexation of Crimea”.
Countries that recognized deportation as an act of genocide:
Latvia:
On April 5, 2019, a working meeting with the second secretary of the Embassy of Latvia in Ukraine and the second secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia took place in the office of the CTRC.
On April 25, 2019, the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Saeima of the Republic of Latvia recognized the deportation of the Crimean Tatars as an act of genocide.
Decision of the Saeima of the Republic of Latvia On the 75th anniversary of the deportation of the Crimean Tatars and support for the policy of non-recognition of the illegal annexation of Crimea of May 9, 2022

The Magnitsky Act (Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law and Accountability Act) is a law passed by the United States in 2012 that provides for the introduction of personal sanctions against persons involved in extrajudicial killings, torture and other gross violations of human rights, the rule of law and corruption. Initially, the law applied only to Russia and to persons connected with the death of Sergei Magnitsky in the detention center Matrosskaya Tishyna in 2008, which revealed a corruption scheme of Russian officials for 5.4 billion rubles. In 2016, the Senate expanded the scope of the law and it became global – Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act.

Following the US, some countries began to pass their own laws similar to the Magnitsky Act, and some countries included these provisions in already existing legislation. This process is ongoing.

In 2021, the CTRC prepared and handed over a list of 50 people involved in human rights violations in the occupied Crimea to the representatives of countries that have laws analogous to the Magnitsky Act with a request to include them in the sanctions lists.