Hanna Parkhomenko on LinkedIn: So exciting to have Oleksandra joining Nova Ukraine as a Goodwill… (2024)

My latest talk with the Ukrainian human rights lawyer and Nobel Peace prize winner Oleksandra Matviichuk is out! Her message is clear: justice cannot wait."Justice must be independent of the magnitudes of Putin's regime's power. We have to create a special tribunal now and hold Putin, Lukashenko and other Russian war criminals accountable."In our latest Talk Europe! edition Oleksandra talked about accountability, the urgency of justice, defending the values of modern civilization and what it means to win the most prestigious award in the world.#standwithukraine

13

⛪ 📣 This article delves into the Russian Orthodox Church Moscow Patriarchate’s recent ideological pronouncements, the Kremlin’s escalating actions in Ukraine, and its tightening grip on the Russian information space. As the conflict in Ukraine continues, it is crucial to understand the various ways in which the Russian government seeks to shape public opinion and justify its aggressive foreign policy. For investigators and those concerned with potential war crimes, this article provides valuable insights into the ideological framework being constructed by the Russian state to legitimize its actions in Ukraine. The ROC MP’s declaration of the invasion as a “holy war” and its efforts to create a comprehensive nationalist ideology around the conflict may be used to justify and encourage further aggression, potentially leading to more severe human rights abuses and violations of international law. 📰 🔎 Read the complete article from Complex Discovery OÜ's Russo-Ukrainian conflict beat, sourced from the Institute for the Study of War at https://buff.ly/43GBWrt.#WarCrimes #Investigations #Telegram

1

1 Comment

Resistance is a power that helps Ukrainethrough centuries to stay, exist, unite, and even inspirepeople around the world. And I am proud to present our important project — OPIR. It is a special English-language historical project by We are Ukraine and is now actively spreading worldwide. We invite you to share it with your friends.Website of the OPIR project: https://lnkd.in/d8UY3Jv9The OPIR project introduces readers to the themes of the resistance movement in Ukraine during the last century, from 1917 to the present day. Through long-read explainers, the project team tried to highlight the crucial stages of Ukrainian society's development against the background of persecution by the Soviet authorities and the aggression of the Russian authorities against the people of Ukraine.Many people heard of Ukraine’s resistance because of Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022. However, this is not a phenomenon born in the 21st century — Ukraine has always fought for its land and people and even focused on establishing effective international relations. For example, in mid-March 1918, the Ukrainian People’s Republic began setting up its diplomatic missions abroad. During 1917-1921, Ukrainian state entities had diplomatic missions in about 30 countries, including the United States, France, Great Britain, Germany, Turkey.Our project tells how Ukrainians resisted persecution and oppression and how these processes have influenced the effective resistance of Ukrainians to Russian aggression today. We covered the issues of the struggle for independence through the artistic, religious, human rights, and partisan movements of the last 100 years. In the project, the trials meet the strength of the spirit of Ukrainians, who are an inspiration for us today and whose contribution to the struggle for freedom in the world should be more widely known.Many thanks to the WeAreUkraine team and brilliant authors and consultants who revealed their perspectives on this period of our history and became the project’s assets - Anton Drobovych Alim Aliev and many others. You are a great team & and support in the creation of this projectOlga Kostiuk Kvitka Perehinets Yevgeniya Ogryzko Liubov Pikulia; talented designers Oleksandr Kryvets Anastasiya Chervinskaya Nadia Firman; always with support of Nataliya Popovych Kateryna StavniichukThe OPIR project was implemented through the support of the East Europe Foundation (EEF) and their attention to the importance of educational and informational projects.#WeAreUkraine #Opir

48

1 Comment

‘Just as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with its imperial follies, trenches and wanton destruction, catapulted Europe back into the harrowing days of the world wars, the flight of ethnic Armenians rewinds us to the Balkans of the 1990s – or even further back, to the end of the Ottoman empire during the first world war.Armenians are clear-eyed and well aware that without Russia’s abandonment, things would not have turned out this way. Their sense of betrayal by Moscow is deep. Both Washington and Brussels are seeking to fill that void and show solidarity towards Armenians, with USAid chiefSamantha Power’s recent trip to Yerevan being testimony to this. It will take more than words and cash to consolidate Armenia’s path to democracy. It will require a sustained commitment over the years, first and foremost by Europeans. As the EU reopens its enlargement file through the accession process towards Ukraine, Moldova and potentially Georgia, there’s no better way to do so – were Yerevan to signal its interest – than to offer the prospect of EU membership to Armenia as well.’https://lnkd.in/g3Zxmfa8?

It is indeed noteworthy that the West's perception of Iran's human rights situation has shifted over time. While the Shah's authoritarian regime was tolerated or even supported by Western powers due to strategic interests, the democratic aspirations of the Iranian people following the revolution were met with skepticism and condemnation. The contradiction in the West's response to human rights violations in Iran reflects the complexities of international relations and the often pragmatic approach taken by governments in pursuit of their interests.During the reign of the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, from the 1950s to the late 1970s, the United States supported his regime as a strategic ally in the region, particularly during the Cold War era. Despite widespread human rights abuses and repression under the Shah's rule, including political repression, censorship, and torture, the United States largely supported his regime due to shared geopolitical interests and the perception of Iran as a bulwark against Soviet influence in the region.#debate with a learned friend concerned over Iran

The Ukraine-Russia war has taken a grave toll on Ukraine. From families losing loved ones to the destruction of vital infrastructure and the collapse of local news organizations covering the conflict, the people of Ukraine are exhausted amid a war that seems never-ending. But as GroundTruth founder and editor-in-chief Charles Sennott reports on the ground, many Ukrainians are also hopeful and resilient—especially local journalists who continue to be the backbone of vital information and the watchdog for corruption in Ukraine, despite the war’s chaos. “If there are air raid sirens or if there is a power outage, we will not disperse. We are already in the bunker and we have generators. We will stay calm and focused as we have important things to discuss,” Andriy Kulikov, a prominent reporter for Ukrainian national radio and the head of the Ukrainian Journalists Association, told a crowd of Ukrainian and international reporters covering the war at the Lviv Media Forum. Dive into Sennott’s on-the-ground reporting of the war’s impact and Secretary Antony Blinken's surprise visit to the region as fighting increases and democracy hangs in the balance: https://lnkd.in/eyy79k-T#ukraine #russia #war #localnews #blinken

1

Americans don't want to know what's going on inside palestine. It is a terrible human rights persecution that is far transcends what any outsider would imagine.There are powerful political forces in the US that prevent any objective analysis of the problem in holy land. Nearly the complete Congress won't speak out against the atrocities and the war crimes committed by Israel. In fact, if any Congress member would speak out, he or she won't be able to come back the next term.AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) determines US foreign policy, and it is completely legitimate 🤔AIPAC isn't dedicated to peace. They are dedicated to inducing the maximum support in America, in the White House and in the media for whatever policies the Israeli government has at a particular time.Now, why does this not surprise me at all?In the EU, we have EFI (European Friends of Israel )

1

In May 2022, the New Lines Institute and Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights issued an independent legal inquiry that found Russia in breach of the United Nations Genocide Convention’s prohibition on direct and public incitement to genocide. The report identified a serious risk of genocide. In other words, the first few months of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine provided ample evidence to trigger the central duty of the United Nations Genocide Convention, namely to prevent genocide in Ukraine. The horrors of genocidal violence sometimes obscure a crucial point in analyses of Russia’s egregious actions against Ukrainians, and today’s war crimes fit broader patterns of Russian aggression against Ukrainians stretching back centuries.

Lest we forget, a reminder from Jacques Derrida and other intellectuals (September 27, 1990): Rather, we are compelled to recognize that crimes against the Armenian minority have become consistent practice—if not official policy—in Soviet Azerbaijan. According to the late Andrei Sakharov (New York Times, November 26, 1988), these pogroms constitute “a real threat of extermination” to the indigenous Armenian community in Azerbaijan and in the autonomous region of Mountainous Karabagh, whose inhabitants are 80 percent Armenian.[. . .]We ask from the Soviet authorities and the international community that all necessary measures be taken immediately to ensure the protection and security of Armenians in the Caucasus and other parts of the Soviet Union. This can begin by bringing about a definitive lifting of the Azerbaijani blockade.It should be clear that the forceful deportation of Armenians is not the solution to the problem of Mountainous Karabagh which, in essence, is a problem of human rights.

31

2 Comments

In commemoration of International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2010, today we recommend reading “La Búsqueda,” byColumbia Law Schoolalumnus Cristobal Jimeno Chadwick (LAW’98) and journalist Daniela Mohor.▪️ The book tells the story of the 1973 disappearance of Claudio —Jimeno’s father — and the decades long search that followed.▪️ More than a human rights violation against an individual, enforced disappearance has frequently been used as a strategy to spread terror within the society.▪️ Once largely the product of military dictatorships, enforced disappearances can nowadays be perpetrated in complex situations of internal conflict, especially as a means of political repression of opponents. ▪️ Hundreds of thousands of people have vanished during conflicts or periods of repression in at least 85 countries around the world.Columbia Global Centers | Columbia Alumni Association of Chile

28