Human rights Archives

French-Palestinian human rights lawyer Salah Hamouri, held without charge in Israeli prisons since March accused of security offences, arrived in Paris on Sunday (18 December) following his expulsion from Israel condemned by Paris.

Russia pounded Ukraine with missiles on Friday (16 December), hammering energy facilities and knocking out power as people took cover in shelters across the country, Ukrainian officials said.

A motion to recognise Holodomor, the 1930s Great Famine in Soviet Ukraine, as genocide found broad support in the European Parliament on Thursday (15 December), with many drawing parallels to Russia’s current war in the country.

Only by instituting a special international tribunal on Russia and its crimes in Ukraine the evil will not have the opportunity to return in the near future, writes Roman Rukomeda.

Current EU equality rules require establishing national equality bodies in all EU member states, writes Helena Dalli. Helena Dalli is the EU Commissioner for Equality, strengthening Europe's commitment to inclusion and equality and leading the fight against discrimination. These institutions have emerged …

A Chadian court has handed jail terms of between two and three years to 262 people who were arrested after deadly protests in October, the public prosecutor said on Monday (5 December).

The Russian army is losing 500 soldiers a day in Donetsk and Luhansk, without being able to achieve any result on the battlefield, writes Roman Rukomeda.

A recent wave of initiatives in national parliaments could revive the historiographical debate over Holodomor - the infamous Great Famine in Ukraine in the 1930s - and shed more light on this horrific chapter of history.

Washington's envoy for war crimes said on Monday (21 November) the United States was monitoring allegations of Ukrainian forces summarily executing Russian troops, and said all parties should face consequences if they commit abuses in the conflict.

Russian missile strikes have crippled almost half of Ukraine's energy system, the government said on 18 November, and authorities in the capital Kyiv warned that the city could face a "complete shutdown" of the power grid as winter sets in.

German federal police have warned their nation's delegation at the COP27 environmental summit in Egypt that its members may be subject to spying by Egyptian security agents, three people with knowledge of the matter said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused Russian soldiers of committing war crimes and killing civilians in Kherson, parts of which were retaken by Ukraine's army last week after Russia pulled out.

The Council of Europe Committee of Ministers has launched infringement proceedings against Ankara that have so far stressed dialogue but could eventually see Turkey's removal or its membership suspended, experts say.

A speech by EU Council head Charles Michel scheduled to be broadcast at the opening of a major Chinese trade fair was abruptly cancelled due to wrangling over censorship, diplomats told AFP Tuesday (8 November).

Ukrainian victims of Russia’s illegal war announced on Tuesday (1 November) civil proceedings in London's High Court against the Russian private military company Wagner Group (WG) and its founder, Yevgeny Prigozhin, also known as ‘Putin’s chef’.

In August, the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) opened an investigation into potential fraud and corruption around the Bosnia and Herzegovinian subsection of Corridor Vc,  financed by EU funds, but it is up to banks to ensure EU expenditure is transparent, writes Martina Vranic.

Russia fired missiles and drones into the Ukrainian-held southern town of Mykolaiv, destroying an apartment block, and said the war was trending towards "uncontrolled escalation" in a flurry of telephone calls to Western defence ministers.

Analysing the positions and actions of the Russian aggressors the conclusion is that Russia uses mass terrorism for postponing its defeat in Ukraine, writes Roman Rukomeda.

Ukraine on Wednesday (19 October) accused Moscow of orchestrating a "mass deportation" of civilians from the occupied region of Kherson where evacuations have begun in the face of advances by Kyiv.

The US will hold Russia accountable for "war crimes", the White House said on 17 October, hours after Russia attacked Ukrainian cities with drones during morning rush hour, killing at least four people in an apartment building in downtown Kyiv.

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama stepped up efforts to clear the name of Albania and Kosovo of organ trafficking allegations stemming from the 1998-1999 Kosovo war, accusing Russia of being behind it during a heated session at the Council of Europe (CoE).

Mass bombardments of Ukrainian cities by Russia constitute war crimes under international law, the presidents of the Bucharest Nine group of countries, accompanied by the presidents of North Macedonia and Montenegro, said on Tuesday (11 October).

The European Union on Monday (10 October) announced it was declaring Nicaragua's representative to the bloc "persona non grata" in retaliation for the expulsion of its ambassador from the Central American country.

Ukraine denounced Russia as a "terrorist state" at an urgent United Nations General Assembly meeting Monday (10 October) following its neighbor's latest attacks, as Western powers sought to underscore Moscow's isolation.