On Thursday, December 9, the Crimean Tatar Resource Center began a week dedicated to protecting human rights in the occupied Crimea and ensuring the collective rights of Crimean Tatars as an indigenous people of Ukraine.
In 2014, the Russian Federation occupied Crimea, the homeland of the indigenous Crimean Tatar people and part of the territory of a sovereign state – Ukraine, thereby violating Article 3 of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, as well as its obligations under the Budapest Memorandum. Since that time, the Russian Federation has not finished its criminal actions. For eight years, Russia has continued to systematically violate human rights on the peninsula.
Activists who did not recognize the attemted annexation of Crimea fell under the repressions of the occupier. Hundreds of people paid for their civil position, and some, unfortunately, even with their lives. They oppress not only men, but also elder people, women and children. On the peninsula, pressure is being exerted on lawyers, civic journalists and human rights defenders.
Since the beginning of its activities, the Crimean Tatar Resource Center has been systematically working in this direction: it monitors violations of individual and collective rights in the occupied Crimea, documents cases of human rights violations and informs the international community about the situation in the occupied Crimea.
Human Rights Week once again allows to draw the attention of the Ukrainian and international community to the problem of human rights violations in the occupied peninsula.
Therefore, within the framework of the human rights week, the CTRC announces the following events:
– on Thursday, December 9 at 14:00, the Crimean Tatar Resource Center with the support of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Ukraine will hold the XXII session of the Crimean Discussion Club on the topic Historical Toponymy of Crimea: Present and Future;
– on Friday, December 10, the CTRC will launch the campaign The Price of the Occupation dedicated to the International Human Rights Day;
– on Friday, December 10, Head of the Board of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, Head of the Department of Legal and Foreign Affairs of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People Eskender Bariiev will take part in National human rights NON-conference, where he will speak on the topic "Culture of Diversity in State Policy". What are the opportunities and practices for the participation of representatives of ethnic minorities and indigenous peoples in the formation of state policy?;
– on Saturday, December 11, the CTRC will present Analysis of human rights violations in the occupied Crimea for November 2021;
– on Sunday, December 12, the CTRC will launch a flash mob #
– on Monday, December 13 at 15:00, the CTRC will hold an online conference dedicated to the presentation of the dynamics of the campaign MP, help the prisoners of the Kremlin!, which was initiated within the international campaign Atalık (Godfather);
– on Wednesday, December 15 at 16:00, the CTRC will hold a presentation of the documentary film "Give Me Back My Dad!" in Lviv;
– on Thursday, December 16, Head of the Board of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, Chairman of the Department for Legal and Foreign Affairs of Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People Eskender Bariiev will speak before the Upper House of the Italian Senate with a report on the topic "The risk of continuing Russian aggression against Ukraine, the issue of Crimea and the role of the EU" and will tell about the campaign"MP, help the prisoners of the Kremlin!"
We invite you to take an active part in our events!