Helsinki Commission Briefing on Human Rights Violations in Crimea

Published: December 19, 2015   

On December 11, 2015 VOLYA Institute for Contemporary Law and Society (Ivanna Bilych, Svitlana Krasynska, Bohdan Pechenyak) and Razom for Ukraine with the moderator Orest Deychakiwsky from the U.S. Helsinki Commission together with guest speakers from Ukraine Andrii Klymenko, Богдан Яременко, and Юрій Яценко, held a briefing in the U.S. Congress on human rights violations in Russian occupied Crimea.

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Crimea Human Rights Report to be presented at United Nations and U.S. Congress

Published: November 30, 2015   

New York, NY, November 30, 2015 – In the spring of 2015, an international team of lawyers, with the support and endorsement of the New York University School of Law, prepared a human rights report entitled “Human Rights in Occupied Territory: Case of Crimea,” issued in June 2015 under the auspices of the Ukrainian-American nonprofit organization Razom, Inc. The report analyzes the current human rights situation in Crimea, and provides recommendations on how to address the situation to local and regional governments, international community, civil society and media, and the population of Crimea.

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Resume of the world news on the MH-17 catastrophe

Published: October 14, 2015   

We would like to share a special report completed by our OKO media monitoring team.

 

The subject of Flight MH-17, shot down over Donbas, was widely discussed in the world mass-media several times during the last year. Since July, 2014 until today, the search engine of the OKO project filtered over 13 thousand articles and videos concerning Flight MH-17, the course of investigation and the victims of this tragedy. OKO volunteer-annotators used our informational system to group each article into shorter list of main topics and write short comment about it.

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Razom IT presents: Using Tech to Transform Government: a case study of Odessa

Published: October 6, 2015   

Lyuba Shipovich and Natalia Shyrba quit their jobs in the US and became volunteers at the Odessa regional administration in Ukraine. Their mission continue reading →

Pantelyk: Ukrainian Fashion in NYC

Published: October 1, 2015   

The Pantelyk Fashion Show was a high energy event celebrating Ukrainian culture with the New York community! A young fashion designer Ira Lysa, along with other artist from Ukraine, has developed a project that promotes contemporary Ukrainian art. We were excited to share this art with the New York community.

 

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Razom IT presents: Networking in NYC #Big #Smart #Now

Published: August 4, 2015   

IT in Ukraine employs 100,000 professionals where 50,000 of them are software engineers.

 

As we moved around the start up community in New York, software engineers from Ukraine kept popping up everywhere. We knew that the out staffing industry had grown in the past decade in Ukraine. And we knew that companies all around the world rely on the engineering smarts of people in Ukraine to design, build and run all sorts of complex software.

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Legal Report “Human Right on Occupied Territory: Case of Crimea” Released

Published: June 15, 2015   

On behalf of Razom, a team of international lawyers has just completed work on a second legal report “Human Rights on Occupied Territory: Case of Crimea”.

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Representing Ukraine at Passport DC

Published: May 10, 2015   

Passport DC is month-long journey around the world highlighting DC’s thriving international diplomatic community and its lively and varied culture. We were honored to be invited by two different embassies, Embassy of Lithuania and Embassy of Ukraine to showcase Ukrainian culture during the Open Doors events of Passport DC.

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Humanitarian Crisis in Ukraine: Impact and Solutions

Published: April 21, 2015   

Representatives of UNHCR (UN Refugee agency), UNICEF, and ECHO (EU Humanitarian aid and Civil Protection department) spoke about their important work of alleviating human suffering in Ukraine. They reaffirmed their commitment to providing humanitarian assistance to the displaced people in Ukraine. These organizations are also ready to help Ukraine’s government rise to the urgent challenge of implementing the legal framework and physical infrastructure necessary to respond to the current IDP crisis.

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Talk by Timothy Snyder: “Ukraine, Russia, and the Future of Europe”

Published: April 13, 2015   

On April 13th, 2015 Yale historian Timothy Snyder spoke at Columbia University on the ongoing hybrid war between Russian and Ukraine, and its significance for the region, Europe, and the world. Professor Snyder discussed how what may appear to be a regional crisis could soon shape more of the world.

 

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