Advocacy
Olha Reshetylova, Head of the Media Initiative for Human Rights, opened the first plenary session of the OSCE Warsaw Human Dimension Conference with an opening speech. The human rights activist began her speech with a proposal to observe a minute of silence to honor the memory of Ukrainians who died as a result of Russia's armed aggression against Ukraine.
1 October 2024
The International Committee of the Red Cross confirmed the detention of at least 60 Ukrainian doctors in Russian captivity. Meanwhile, the Media Initiative for Human Rights currently lists more than a hundred medical professionals imprisoned by Russia. Human rights activists estimate that the number of such detainees could exceed 500.
26 July 2024
In the spring of 2022, two Ukrainian military boats, Sloviansk and Stanislav, sank in the Black Sea as a result of Russian missile strikes. Some of the sailors were rescued. However, what happened to 16 more remains unknown.
24 July 2024
Statement by the Ukraine 5AM Coalition on the Russian Federation's missile attack on medical facilities and civilian infrastructure in Ukraine.
8 July 2024
The occupation authorities of Berdiansk are planning a secret burial of Ukrainian teenagers Tihran Ohannisian and Mykyta Khanhanov. This was reported to the Media Initiative for Human Rights by Hryhorii Ohannisian, Tihran's father.
3 July 2024
The Media Initiative for Human Rights organized a roundtable discussion, "Deprivation of the right to a fair trial in international criminal law."
27 June 2024
More than fifty diplomats took part in a special OSCE event, where the Media Initiative for Human Rights, for the first time since the beginning of Russia's war against Ukraine, raised the issue of missing Ukrainians. Apart from the MIHR and delegations of OSCE participating states, the discussion was attended by relatives of missing persons, the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War, and the International Commission on Missing Persons.
16 May 2024
The OSCE has presented a report on violations and abuses of international humanitarian and human rights law, war crimes, and crimes against humanity related to the arbitrary deprivation of liberty of civilian Ukrainians by the Russian Federation. The report was prepared by a mission of OSCE experts within the framework of the Moscow Mechanism, the launch of which the Media Initiative for Human Rights has been advocating for more than a year and a half. During the preparation of the document, the MIHR worked closely with the mission's experts, with facts about Russia's crimes documented by us becoming part of the report.
26 April 2024
The Media Initiative for Human Rights continues its advocacy visit to the OSCE within the Supplementary Human Dimension Meetings framework. Analyst Lyubov Smachylo and Head of the War Crimes Courts Monitoring Department Oksana Rasulova participated in the event "Challenges of establishing justice in Ukraine for victims of war crimes and their motivation at the national level," organized by the MIHR.
24 April 2024
Ten films from this year's international Czech festival "One World" were shown in the Belgian capital — the world's largest human rights documentary film event organized by People in Need. The Oscar-winning film "20 Days in Mariupol" by Ukrainian director Mstyslav Chernov was also viewed. Among the audience was Lubov Smachilo, MIHR’ analyst.
23 April 2024