In the framework of permanent cooperation with the United Nations’ bodies and officials, our Association informed the High Commissioner for Human Rights for his report on the promotion and protection of the human rights of women and children in conflict and post-conflict situations.
The ARC submission, prepared by Anna Prykhodko, Olexiy Plotnikov, and other experts and published on the UN official web-sources now, described Russia’s repressions, hate speech, and discrimination against women and girls in the Russia-occupied areas of Ukraine, including Crimea.
The ARC submission reminded the High Commissioner about the case of Tamara Chernukha, kidnapped by Russian punishers in the Chernomorske (Ak-Mechet) settlement in February 2025, and other victims of enforced disappearances.
Also submission mentioned the Russian voluntaristic campaign to ban abortions in Crimea, allegedly to “support the demographic situation” was described as the challenge to women’s health, and the case of repressions, committed by Russian punitive structures in 2025 against some Crimean Tatar women, who wrote appeals to the Kremlin’s administration regarding the activities of an organized crime group within the “ministry of health” and relevant negligence and corruption in the “Crimean Perinatal Center.”
The ARC submission pointed to the High Commissioner that the draft of General Recommendation on dismantling gender stereotypes and the unequal power relations that sustain them, elaborating by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women does not reflect the relevant conflict and post-conflict situations, so we submitted relevant amendment proposals.
Also, UN officials now published our submission, prepared by Eduard Pleshko, Olesya Tsybulko, and other experts and sent earlier to the UN Working Group on discrimination against women and girls, where the manipulations with artificial intelligence, done by Russian occupiers in Crimea, were described, deepening threats in the area of discrimination against women and girls.
