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    Title

    Alternative report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination ahead
    of its review of twenty-fourth to twenty-sixth periodic reports submitted by Ukraine

    Date

    March 2025

    Area

    discrimination, hate crime

    This report, prepared by the Social Action Centre (Ukraine) 1 , outlines key shortcomings in
    Ukraine’s implementation of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
    Racial Discrimination (CERD), in light of the country’s 24th–26th periodic reports to the UN
    Committee.

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    Title

    Documenting Hate Motive in Russia's War against Ukraine: a policy brief

    Date

    September 2024

    Area

    hate crimes; international crimes

    This report, prepared by the Social Action Centre (Ukraine) 1 , outlines key shortcomings in
    Ukraine’s implementation of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
    Racial Discrimination (CERD), in light of the country’s 24th–26th periodic reports to the UN
    Committee.

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    Title:

    Preliminary review: places of deprivation of liberty in Ukraine during the war

    Date

    2022

    Area

    international crimes; equality and non-discrimination

    The experience of monitoring conflict-related human rights violations since 2014, as well as the evidence received after the start of the full-scale invasion in 2022, led some Coalition member organizations to separate the monitoring of the human rights situation and documentation of war crimes committed against detainees and staff of places of detention into a separate area of work.
    In addition, the organizations focused part of their attention on what actions the Ukrainian authorities have taken or failed to take to ensure the safety and well-being of these people.

    This work brought together several members of the Coalition - the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union, the NGOs Ukraine without Torture, the Social Action Center, and the Expert Center for Human Rights - who were also joined by the NGO “Fight for Rights,” a specialized organization representing the community of people with disabilities.

    The authors of the review decided to prepare a preliminary assessment of the human rights situation in places of detention in the three selected regions, as well as to begin analyzing data on war crimes documented in these territories against detainees and/or the administration of places of detention. 

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    Title

    Overview of the 2012-2020 Case Law of Ukrainian Courts on Discrimination

    Area

    non-discrimination

    The publication “Discrimination: Court Practice 2012 - 2020” contains a comparative analysis of court decisions for almost the entire period of existence of anti-discrimination legislation in Ukraine. The purpose of this study is to review and analyze lawsuits filed in various courts in Ukraine, where complainants claimed discrimination as the main or one of the violations of their rights.

    This review aims to investigate the development of court practice in cases related to discrimination, identify which complaints Ukrainians most often bring to court, what are the trends in the consideration of these complaints and model decisions, and formulate recommendations for all stakeholders in this area to address the main problems identified.

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