Crimea is Ukraine

Published: February 26, 2019   

Five years ago on 26 February 2014 Crimeans showed up in the thousands in Sevastopol, Crimea to show their support for Ukraine and condemn Russian aggression and the “Green men” showing up on their streets. This is considered the beginning of the Russian occupation of Crimea. When the illegitimate “referendum” was held on 16 March 2014, the results did not reflect the clear will of the people of Crimea, those that were standing in solidarity with Ukraine on 26 February 2014, on what is now and forever will be a very symbolic day.

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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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