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Human rights defenders Tetiana Pechonchyk and Olga Skrypnyk give insights into the dire situation in Crimea and what needs to be done to address it.

For the first time, a non-governmental organisation has arranged a thematic briefing of the Council of Europe’s (CoE’s) decision-making body. Three human rights defenders presented their experiences on the front line promoting human rights.

The human rights situation in Crimea is “dismal” for civilians – particularly for minority groups and human rights defenders, according a report by the United Nations monitoring mission to Ukraine.

Two proposed laws introduced in Ukraine would oblige non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to publically publish detailed online reports on their employees and funding, which organisations have labelled as “disproportionate interference” in their activities.

More than 200 participants from eight countries gathered under the roof of Educational Human Rights House Chernihiv for the first Educational Human Rights Fest in what organisers hope will be an annual event.

Discover how we, the Human Rights Houses and Human Rights House Foundation, protected, empowered, and supported human rights defenders and advanced human rights in 2016.

Independent media outlet Meydan TV and journalist Anton Naumlyuk won the Fritt Ord Foundation’s Free Media Awards for their contribution to independent information and efforts to shed light on human rights violations in Azerbaijan and Crimea.

In a letter to the President of Ukraine, 31 member and partner NGOs of Human Rights Houses underlined that civil society is an ally for Ukraine’s future, and urged that it should not be targeted by measures impeding its independence.

Now three years since the Russian annexation of Crimea, Human Rights House Foundation (HRHF) again raised concerns about the human rights situation on the peninsula at the United Nations Human Rights Council.