In the framework of our Association’s active participation at the Warsaw Human Dimension Conference 2025, held by OSCE ODIHR, our Association’s expert Borys Babin discussed at a set of events the Russian international crimes against the human dimension committed during aggression against Ukraine and occupation of Ukrainian territories, including Crimea.
ARC’s expert took part in such side-events as “Targeting Truth: Media Freedom Under Russia’s Aggression in Ukraine” and “Patterns of Repression in Occupied Territories of Ukraine: Human Rights and Humanitarian Perspectives,” organized by Ukrainian NGOs, where the systematic attacks on media freedom across Ukraine as a direct consequence of Russia’s military aggression were described, also as the
Russia’s efforts to silence independent reporting since the occupation of Crimea and the assessment of the humanitarian consequences of prolonged occupation.
At the side-event “Path to Accountability for Belarus,” organized by the missions of Germany, Lithuania, and Poland to the OSCE, where the gravest human rights crises in Europe in recent decades in Belarus was discussed, Professor Babin raised an issue of unilateral sanctions as a tool of accountability for the Lukashenka regime.
ARC reminded of the usage of Minsk illegal activities for sanction circumvention, including illegal economic collaboration with Crimea, gas pipelines, and oceanic fishery mafia issues, and stressed the risks of provocations from Minsk-controlled UN officials that misuse their own mandate in issues of unilateral coercive measures.
Also, Professor Babin exchanged opinions on issues of Russian international crimes qualification with participants of the side-event “The Moscow Mechanism Report on Possible Violations and Abuses of International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law, War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity, Related to the Treatment of Ukrainian Prisoners of War by Russia,” organized by missions of Canada, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Latvia, Poland, Sweden, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom to the OSCE.
