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During the 30th Annual Meeting of the OSCE Ministerial Council in Skopje, representatives of eight participating States members of the Democracy Defenders Initiative (DDI) recognized the Media Initiative for Human Rights for its documentation of Russian crimes and ongoing advocacy. The ceremony was attended by representatives of Canada, Denmark, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
1 December 2023
Maksym Bilychuk is a thirty-year-old resident of Chornobaivka, the strategically important village near Kherson, where the airfield is located. He had neither military nor volunteer experience before a full-scale invasion. He spent the first month and a half of the Great War in the basement with his nephew, wife and neighbors.
30 November 2023
On November 24, the Media Initiative for Human Rights presented a manual on covering war crimes courts. It consists of a theoretical framework and practical advice on how to cover court hearings, communicate with the parties to the process, and adhere to the ethical framework.
28 November 2023
In this investigative material the MIHR researches chronology of seizer of the station, names of involved Russian soldiers, reproduces the route of movement of prisoners of war captured in the exclusion zone, and conditions of their detention to the Russian Federation. And also tries to answer the question: how did it happen that the nuclear facility suddenly ended up in the hands of the enemy.
22 November 2023
The Kyiv District Court of Kharkiv declared Kharkiv resident Denys Panikarov guilty of high treason.
15 November 2023
International humanitarian law safeguards medical professionals, allowing them to provide medical services during occupation. Meanwhile, in Ukraine, investigations and trials are underway against medical officials accused of collaborating with occupiers. MIHR has delved into the charges faced by these doctors and assessed the alignment of national judicial practices with international humanitarian law standards.
19 October 2023