Organisers:
Media Initiative for Human Rights
USAID Human Rights in Action Program
Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union
Mission of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea
The experts will discuss:
- the evolution, relevance and current dynamics of universal jurisdiction cases,
- how they correlate with other fact-finding, investigative and adjudication initiatives and whether and if Ukraine could pursue this avenue of justice.
Speakers:
- Almudena Bernabeu, Co-head, Guernica 37 International Justice Chambers;
- Wolfgang Kaleck, General Secretary, European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights;
- Giunduz Mamedov, Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine.
Moderators:
- Maria Tomak, Coordinator, Media Initiative for Human Rights
- Dr Kateryna Busol, Lawyer, Centre for Defence Strategies
With Russia’s occupation of Crimea and support of their proxies in eastern Ukraine, having marked eight years, the Ukrainian Government has pursued a variety of accountability avenues in domestic, regional and international courts. However, as many alleged perpetrators are out of reach of Ukraine’s agencies and since international trials might take years, Ukraine also levies its hope for justice on other states and the proceedings they might open into Crimean and Donbas contexts on the basis of universal jurisdiction.