On Friday, July 2 at 14:00, the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, the Permanent Mission of the Verkhovna Rada to PACE will organize an online side event on the topic: “The introduction of personal sanctions as a mechanism to ensure the protection of human rights in the occupied Crimea”.
On 7 December 2020, following months of concertation among the EU Member States, the Council of the European Union adopted the EU Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime. This landmark decision enables the EU to impose targeted sanctions against individuals and entities responsible for or involved in serious human rights violations or abuses worldwide.
Sanction mechanisms modeled on the Global Magnitsky Act have been already introduced in Canada, the UK, the three Baltic countries and Kosovo. Australia and Japan have begun considering their own versions, while Italy and Germany put forward draft laws to provide their governments with an ad-hoc sanctions tool.
are effective tools to fight impunity in those countries where perpetrators of gross and systematic human rights violations are not held accountable for their crimes. Restricted access to real estate, assets and traveling, a credibility hit in the international arena serve as a powerful deterrence on potential human rights abusers.
The purpose of the event is to develop mechanisms for applying personal sanctions to persons responsible for human rights violations in Crimea.
Key topics for discussion:
1. Laws modelled on the "Magnitsky Act": implementation experience, challenges and results.
2. The role of laws similar to the "Magnitsky Act" in the context of human rights violations in the occupied Crimea: implementation mechanisms and perspective.
3. Whether the Parliaments of the CoE member states ready to introduce amendments to the laws to strengthen personal sanctions in the context of human rights violations in Crimea?
4. Whether the politicians and prominent figures of European countries ready to take political patronage over political prisoners of the occupied Crimea.
Speakers
Maria Mezentseva – MP of Ukraine, Head of the Permanent Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
Žygimantas Pavilionis – Chair of Seimas Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania
Venera Mustafayeva – Mother of the political prisoner Server Mustafayev
Nikolay Polozov – Lawyer
Rustem Umerov – MP of Ukraine
Yevheniya Kravchuk – MP of Ukraine, Deputy Head of the Permanent Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
Antonio Stango – Professor, President of the Italian Federation for Human Rights
To participate in the event, you need to register in advance using this link – https://cutt.ly/mnNPzFp, after which you will receive a confirmation email containing information on entering the conference.
The live broadcast will also be available via the Crimean Tatar Resource Center Facebook page – https://www.facebook.com/
Organizers of the event: Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, Crimean Tatar Resource Center, Permanent Mission of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine to PACE.