In framework of permanent cooperation with UN bodies and structures, our Association sent input to UN Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in Law Enforcement as Human Rights Council’s subsidiary body for reporting at Council’s 57th session.
ARC’s input, published by UN official sources now, reminded to UN Mechanism, that our experts co-operate systematically with OSCE and UN bodies on issues of protecting and defending victims of discrimination on Russia-occupied territories of Ukraine, including Crimea, as in common more than 150 Association’s submissions were sent to UN bodies since 2020 and more of 100 of them were published at UN web-sources.
ARC’s input stressed that our researches are related with human rights and humanitarian issues, including transitional justice and counteraction racial discrimination, genocidal calls, hate speech and segregation, and described the issues of relevant persecution of Professor Borys Babin, expert of our Association, Ukrainian scientist in international law areas, including indigenous and minorities’ rights.
ARC’s input reminded, that Dr. Babin, was included to the Russia’s sanction lists established bу the agressor’s governmental prescript 1656 on December 25, 2018, and it described also the current racial discrimination challenges against our expert, including criminal proceeding and case 420/2297/22.
UN Expert Mechanism’s Report A/HRC/57/71, submitted on that issue for Human Rights Council’s 57th session in accordance with its resolutions 47/21 and 56/13, stressed in point 23, with notice on inputs received, that “generalized low rates of criminal investigation and prosecution of …violations by law enforcement officials could be attributed to many different reasons, including …general racial biases and structural discrimination emanating from systemic racism that can exist in all the phases of the criminal justice system”.
Report A/HRC/57/71 added in points 82 and 83 regarding such issue, that victims should have the right to actively participate in investigations; their safety, physical and psychological well-being and privacy should be protected, and states should guarantee that the role that systemic racism played in the violations by law enforcement will be examined and considered in any form of accountability, including in investigations, prosecutions, judicial and administrative decisions and any reparation measure.
