Ukraine Programme
Our team
Dagmar Matúšů
Researcher
Yaroslav Halieiev
Researcher
Ana Jabauri
Programme Director
Yaroslav Halieiev
Researcher
Ukraine programme responds to the urgent need to collect and preserve information from victims and witnesses of crimes committed in Ukraine, engages in efforts to bring responsible perpetrators to justice by aiding litigations based on universal jurisdiction and provides analyses of allegations of international crimes.
Our projects
COLLECTION OF INFORMATION
DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL LITIGATION
ANALYSES
Events
Webinar: Eastern Ukraine and Flight MH17
Case at the ECtHR: Reflections and Outlook
Speakers:
- Margarita Sokorenko, Agent of Ukraine before the European Court of Human Rights
- Tamar Tomashvili, IHL Expert for Ukraine, International Development Law Organization
Moderator:
- Ana Jabauri, Ukraine Programme Director, Platform for Peace and Humanity
Webinar: Foreign fighters in Ukraine
Speakers:
- Teun van Dongen, Programme Lead, Current and Emerging Threats at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism
- Egle E. Murauskaite, Senior Researcher & Simulation Designer for the ICONS Project with the University of Maryland
- Petra Ditrichová Ochmannová, Legal Advisor at the International Law Department, Ministry of Defence of the Czech Republic
Moderator:
- Rastislav Šutek, Executive Director at Platform for Peace and Humanity
Webinar: The International Criminal
Court and the Situation in Ukraine
Speakers:
- Paolina Massidda, Principal Counsel of the Independent Office of Public Counsel for Victims at the ICC
- Dmytro Suprun, Counsel of the Independent Office of Public Counsel for Victims at the ICC
- Anna Neistat, Legal Director of The Docket Initiative at the Clooney Foundation for Justice
Moderator:
- Rastislav Šutek, Executive Director at Platform for Peace and Humanity
Webinar: Seeking justice for MH17 downing
Speakers:
- Piet Ploeg, Chairman of Stichting Vliegramp MH17
- Eliot Higgins, Founder and creative director of Bellingcat
Moderators:
- Rastislav Šutek, Executive Director of Platform for Peace and Humanity
Webinar: Hostilities in eastern Ukraine
Speakers:
- Stefan Ziegler, Former Head of Reporting in the OSCE Hub in Donetsk
- Varvara Pakhomenko, Former Geneva Call’s Head of Mission in Ukraine
- Zera Kozlyieva, Deputy Head of the Department for Supervision in Criminal Proceedings for Crimes Committed in the Conditions of Armed Conflict at the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine
- Konstantin Karaman, First Deputy Head of the Luhansk Regional Prosecutorʹs Office
Moderators:
- Rastislav Šutek, Executive Director of Platform for Peace and Humanity
- Agata Kleczkowska, Assistant Professor at the Instytut Nauk Prawnych PAN (Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences)
Webinar: War crimes and crimes against
humanity in occupied Crimea
Speakers:
- Maria Tomak, a Ukrainian human rights activist, journalist, researcher, coordinator and co-founder of the Media Initiative for Human Rights
- Iryna Bartsytska, the Head of the Department for International Legal Cooperation in the Prosecutor’s Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the City of Sevastopol
Moderators:
- Rastislav Šutek, Executive Director at Platform for Peace and Humanity
- Snizhana Romashkin, Project Coordinator at Platform for Peace and Humanity
Webinar: Crimes against humanity committed during the Maidan revolution
Speakers:
- Olexandra Matviychuk, Head of the Board at Center for Civil Liberties
- Vitaliy Tytych, Senior partner at Vitaliy Tytych & Partners and founder of Advocacy Advisory Panel (Heavenly Hundred’s Lawyers)
- Oleksandr Pavlichenko, Executive Director of Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union
Moderator:
- Rastislav Šutek, Executive Director at Platform for Peace and Humanity
