On Monday, October 13, in Warsaw (Poland), the Crimean Tatar Resource Center will hold a side event entitled “Racial Discrimination in the Occupied Territories of Ukraine as a Systemic Problem of the Human Dimension” as part of the Warsaw Conference on the Human Dimension.The event is dedicated to analyzing the systemic policy of racial discrimination and repression against the collective rights of indigenous peoples and the rights of their representatives in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.
Experts will talk about:
- Facts of politically motivated criminal prosecutions, illegal arrests, torture, and other forms of pressure on Crimean Tatar activists in the temporarily occupied Crimea and areas of the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions after the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion.
- The persecution by the occupiers or members of Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, regional and local Mejlises of the Crimean Tatars.
- The analysis of Ukraine’s state policy on the protection of the rights of indigenous peoples in the context of the implementation of relevant legislation.
The speakers will be:
Eskender Bariiev – Chairman of the Board of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, member of Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People;
Refat Chubarov – Chairman of Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People;
Borys Babin – expert at the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, professor at the State University “Kyiv Aviation Institute”;
Fadme Belyalova – sister of political prisoner Mamut Belyalov;
Liudmyla Korotkykh – lawyer at the Crimean Tatar Resource Center;
Natalia Fluris – sister of Anatoly Kobzar, who was abducted in Crimea;
Tetiana Savchuk – communications manager of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center.
The side event aims to draw attention to systemic and widespread violations of human rights and collective rights of indigenous peoples in the occupied territories of Ukraine, as well as to discuss international mechanisms for combating racial discrimination and ensuring the participation of indigenous peoples in decision-making processes.
The event will be held by the Crimean Tatar Resource Center with the support of the Askold and Dir Foundation, which is administered by ISAR Unity as part of the project “Strong Civil Society in Ukraine – Engine of Reform and Democracy” with funding from Norway and Sweden. The content of the event is the responsibility of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center and does not reflect the views of the governments of Norway, Sweden, or ISAR Unity.