News - MIHR

Crimea Global. Understanding Ukraine through the South: international conference started in Kyiv

In Kyiv, the International conference “Crimea Global. Understanding Ukraine through the South”. Media Initiative for Human Rights […]

14 October 2023

“Currency” for Wagner: where did the fighters from the 58th Brigade go?

The fate of most of the men who disappeared on the battlefield of 58th Separate Motorized Infantry Brigade unit is unknown. According to family estimates, there are about three thousand of them. In conversations with the MIPL, some suggest that the soldiers are in detention centers in the occupation, on the territory of the Russian Federation, and in captivity with the Wagner Group.

10 October 2023

“The world sees what Russia is doing and an expansionist power carrying out an unprovoked, unjustified and brutal aggression against its neighbor,” — claims Anne-Marie Callan

At the OSCE Warsaw Human Dimension Conference, after the MIHR side event “Civilian hostages: hidden behind bars. […]

9 October 2023

Statement by Ukraine 5AM Coalition on the inadmissibility of electing the Russian Federation as a member of the UN Human Rights Council

Ukraine 5AM Coalition of human rights organizations strongly protests against the consideration of the candidacy of the Russian Federation for electing it as a member of the UN Human Rights Council.

7 October 2023

The MIHR launches the campaign to help free Ukrainian civilian hostages from Russian captivity

The Media Initiative for Human Rights launches the Release Hostages: A Demand for Freedom Campaign to draw […]

5 October 2023

War and justice

“Teaching to love Russia.” How Ukrainian courts punish collaborators in education

A new school year has begun. For the occupied territories, this means portraits of Putin and Russian flags in educational institutions, the quest "In Search of Symbols of Russia" with a birch tree, a nesting doll, and a bear, and poems by schoolchildren about "Russians who are ready to fight in a fair fight." This is part of the Russian educational programs they are trying to impose on the occupied territories.

27 September 2023