📆 On 11 July, as part of a working visit to Rome (Italian Republic), the Permanent Representative of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Olha Kuryshko, and the Advocacy Director of the ZMINA Human Rights Centre, Alyona Lunova, met with Giuliomaria

“100 Difficult Questions on International Humanitarian Law and Simple Answers”: a new handbook for journalists has been released with the support of Freedom House in 🇺🇦. Find out more: zmina.ua/en/event-en/10…

"Torture victims face many barriers to healing and justice" 💬 🇺🇦 In this 90 seconds video, Maryna Demura, a human rights defender from Kharkiv, a Ukrainian city that has been frequently targeted due to its proximity to 🇷🇺 Russia, shares her insights on Ukraine’s remaining gaps

📣Stop using the justice system for political reprisals: statement by civil society on the case of Vitalii Shabunin. [1/3] On 11 July, the SBI conducted searches with numerous violations at the home of the co-founder of AntAC, Shabunin. ➡️zmina.ua/en/statements-…

The book by Crimean Tatar #PoliticalPrisoner Osman Arifmemetov was presented at the Sens bookstore in Kyiv. It is a unique testimony about Russian persecution in occupied Crimea, written from within the repressive system. ➡️Read more: zmina.ua/en/event-en/th…

📢 Joint statement: OSCE and Member States must act now to free its staff – Dmytro Shabanov, Maksym Petrov and Vadym Golda – from Russia’s captivity and prosecution. 50th #HelsinkiFinalAct Anniversary must be marked by decisive action. Full statement: ulag.org.ua/news/release-u…

Join us tomorrow in Helsinki at #Helsinki50 for the side event "The Future of the Helsinki Final Act: Restoring Justice and Ensuring Russia’s Accountability". 8:45 AM | Finlandia Hall Moderator: yuri vitrenko 🇺🇦 With testimonies from former Ukrainian POWs Co-organized by

On the margins of Helsinki+50 Conference, 🇺🇦side-event by Media Initiative for Human Rights & Human Rights Centre ZMINA highlighted important testimonies of russia’s brutal violations of the Helsinki Decalogue. Former PoWs from Aidar & Azov 🇺🇦military units described inhuman conditions they endured in 🇷🇺captivity.

🇺🇦Side-event organized by Baby Q Crimean Human Rights Group CCE "Almenda" Regional Center for Human Rights spotlighted russia’s occupation of Crimea as a grave violation of the principles of the Helsinki Final Act. We remind - #CrimeaIsUkraine and 🇷🇺ongoing occupation undermines European security & OSCE foundations.

Already 28 dead in #Kyiv due to #Russia's attack previous night... among them children 💔 Pain. The pain. How many lives this freak country has taken. How many more will it take until it finally collapses. My sincere condolences to the families of the victims 🙏 Hold on, Kyivans

ZMINA & Media Initiative for Human Rights with the support of Ukrainian Mission to OSCE & UN in Vienna highlighted politically motivated persecution in the occupied territories of 🇺🇦 at #Helsinki50Conference side event. ➡️ Read more: zmina.ua/en/event-en/zm…

ZMINA’s Tetiana Pechonchyk said: “Court proceedings against 🇺🇦 civilians & POWs do not meet fair trial standards. The so-called 🇷🇺 court system is just another piece of the overall crime scene.” Media Initiative for Human Rights’s Tetiana Katrychenko added: “Courts are neither independent nor impartial.”

Tetiana Pechonchyk Media Initiative for Human Rights Former POWs who endured captivity & sham trials, Liliia Prutian & Oleksandr Kuzmenko, joined the event. Marharyta Shabanova, wife of the detained OSCE staff member Dmytro Shabanov, also addressed the audience with the statement ➡️ zmina.ua/en/statements-…

📢 Civic Solidarity Platform manifesto on the 50th anniversary of the #HelsinkiFinalAct. Find out what states, OSCE structures & civil society must do to fully realise the #HelsinkiPrinciples & implement OSCE commitments ➡️ zmina.ua/en/statements-…

Statement by .OSCE media freedom, Ambassador Jan Braathu on the funeral of Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna 👇

Russia is a “peaceful” country — if you ignore the several dozen nations it has invaded, occupied, or bombed over the past few centuries. Peace, russian-style, just tends to involve someone else’s territory.

🇺🇦 Home. Ukraine has returned 84 Ukrainians from Russian captivity – the majority in this group urgently need medical support and rehabilitation. Among them are Mariupol defenders and civilians held by Russia for many years, even since 2014 when it started its war against

💔 Civilian hostage Bohdan Kovalchuk was returned from Russian captivity today. Russians illegally imprisoned him back in 2016, at just 17, when he was trying to flee occupation. “Grandma, I’m coming home,” he said to his grandmother today, Hromadske reports.

286 civilians were killed and 1,388 injured in Ukraine as a result of shelling in July – the highest figure since May 2022, surpassing June 2025 statistics, according to Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU). Nearly 40% of the casualties were caused by the use of long-range weapons, including

🔴 In the first seven months of 2025, Truth Hounds verified more #Russian small drone attacks on #Ukrainian civilians, property, and infrastructure than in 2023 and 2024 combined, indicating an escalation in drone use. Vitalii Poberezhnyi, a researcher at Truth Hounds, spoke