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War Crimes at Sea: Shelling of Merchant Ships in Ukraine’s Territorial Waters
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War crimes in the wake of Russia’s military onslaught on Ukraine
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Where did the shells come from? The shelling of Stanytsia Luhanska Village, hitting the “Kazka” Kindergarten No 21 building on February 17, 2022
On February 17, 2022, around 09:00 a.m. local time, an artillery shell hit a kindergarten building during the shelling of Stanytsia Luhanska, creating a hole in a wall behind which a gym was situated. [1] Localisation of the impact site Serhii Haidai, head of the civil-military administration of Luhansk Oblast, said: “As a result of
Mass-casualty Burials in the Uncontrolled Territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk Regions
On February 16, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case over the discovery of four mass graves in the occupied Luhansk Region and one in the occupied Donetsk Region. It is alleged that the remains of those killed in indiscriminate shelling by the Ukrainian armed forces were found there. Reports of mass-casualty
Hate incidents during October-December 2021 in Ukraine
Truth Hounds and partners, under our joint initiative United to Confront Hate-Motivated Violence in Ukraine, seek to improve Ukraine’s policies to prevent and respond to hate‐motivated violence. Our efforts unite communities targeted with hate‐motivated violence in a broad coalition aimed at monitoring, documenting, and analyzing hate-motivated crimes and incidents in Ukraine. Equipped with data gathered
Georgia: ‘It felt like the whole country was against us’ – Investigation into attacks against journalists and LGBTIQ activists in Georgia
Truth Hounds, International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) and partners publish a new report, “‘It felt like the whole country was against us’ – Failures by the Georgian government to address hate speech and attacks on LGBTIQ activists and journalists“, which presents the findings of an investigation into the violent attacks against journalists and LGBTIQ
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DONBAS ENVIRONMENT: INVISIBLE FRONT
Read the Report PDF open in the new window 1. Summary The ecological situation of the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, which have become the backdrop to an armed conflict with active armed hostilities from 2014 to 2021 and are partially under the control of occupying forces, has significantly deteriorated in recent years, showing signs
Crossing Paths: Human rights in Eastern Ukraine during the coronavirus pandemic
On March 22-26 and April 12-16, the Truth Hounds monitoring group visited all 7 checkpoints and a number of settlements located on the demarcation line to document human rights violations, the effects of the pandemic, the escalation of the military situation, and working conditions of checkpoints during quarantine. Read Report
Nagorno-Karabakh (2020) – Report
There is strong evidence that Azerbaijani and Armenian armed forces committed war crimes during last year’s 44-day war over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, according to a joint report When Embers Burst into Flames: International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law Violations During the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War by the International Partnership for Human Rights
The Situation in Belarus: Crimes Against Humanity of Deportation and Persecution
Today, International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR), Norwegian Helsinki Committee, Global Diligence LPP and Truth Hounds (the Filing Parties) filed a Communication under Article 15(2) of the Rome Statute to the International Criminal Court (ICC) on ‘The Situation in Belarus/Lithuania/Poland/ Latvia and Ukraine: Crimes Against Humanity of Deportation and Persecution’. The Communication requests the ICC
Violations of the rights of creative professionals, activists and artists during the post-election crackdown in Belarus
This joint report by Belarusian PEN Centre, Civic Solidarity Platform (CSP), International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) and Truth Hounds, presents information obtained from monitoring by Belarusian PEN Centre as well as other local and international human rights defender organisations and provides an assessment of the human rights violations against creative professionals, activists and artists by the Belarusian authorities in response
Report of the monitoring mission to the line of demarcation
From November 9 to 13, Truth Hounds and Vostok SOS Charitable Foundation visited all 7 entry-exit checkpoints in the Ukrainian-controlled areas in the first joint monitoring mission to the demarcation line. The purpose of the monitoring was to observe how people were allowed to cross the line of demarcation under quarantine restrictions. The organizations also