Justice for Peace at Donbas

Coalition "Justice for Peace in Donbass" (Ukrainian: Справедливість заради миру на Донбасі) is an informal alliance of 17 Ukrainian human rights organisations and initiatives. Members of the Coalition have teamed up to document human rights violations that occurred during the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine.

The Coalition focuses on gathering information about the most serious human rights violations and violations of international humanitarian law in the context of the armed conflict in the Donbas. The member organisations of the Coalition fill the database, which contains information on human rights violations. Thus, the documentation of violations becomes more efficient.

Coalition members

Most members of the Coalition are representatives of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions.

Organisations that are part of the Coalition are: Alchevsk rights-Analytical Center, the Public Committee for the protection of constitutional rights and freedoms of citizens, NGO "Shore of Peace", Public Movement "Ochyschennya", Donbass SOS, Donetsk Memorial, Ecological and Cultural Center "Bakhmat" Luhansk advocacy group, Luhansk regional human rights center "Alternative",Human Rights center "Postup" / East SOS, Starobilsk NGO "Volia", Starobilsk district public advocacy women's organisation "Victoria", East-Ukraininan center of public initiatives, Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union, Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, the Centre for civil liberties / Euromaidan SOS, Center "Social action".

Coalition partners are the UN Development Program in Ukraine and the International Fund "Renaissance".

History

The alliance was founded in 2014. One of the first joint initiatives of members of the Coalition was a project supported by the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (Warsaw),[1] in which member organisations collected evidence of more than 150 people who had been in illegal places of detention under the control of "DNR" and "LNR".

Activities

In 2015, the Coalition published a report based on interviews with people who were held in prisons during a military confrontation in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, "Surviving Hell: The testimony of victims on illegal detention in Donbas".[2]

At the moment, organisations of the Coalition continue to document cases of illegal detention of people in places controlled by "DNR" and "LNR", as well as by Ukrainian volunteer battalions and Armed Forces of Ukraine. Coalition also studies the cases of involvement of minors in armed groups and cases of gender-based violence.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Helsińska Fundacja Praw Człowieka".
  2. ↑ Surviving Hell
  3. ↑ Unspoken Pain. Gender-based violence in the conflict zone of Eastern Ukraine
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