In framework of permanent cooperation with UN bodies and agencies our Association informed UN OHCHR on current challenges of Russia-committed racial discrimination in Ukraine for the preparation of the report of the UN Secretary-General pursuant to the UN General Assembly resolution A/RES/78/234.
Association’s submission, published at UN web-sources now, reminded that January, 2024 decision of the UN International Court of Justice in the case 166 “Ukraine v. Russia” regarding the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) established in racial discrimination of ethnic Ukrainians in the Crimea since 2014 by occupiers in area of abcence of education on Ukrainian language.
ARC’s submission stressed also that on June 25, 2024 the European Court of Human Rights published its decision on applications 20958/14 and 38334/18 of Ukraine against Russia regarding Crimea, where it recognized that Russia violated the prohibition of discrimination regarding an entire group of human rights due to the administrative practice of attacks on the Crimean Tatars.
Thereby European Court significantly corrected the January decision of International Court of Justice on ICERD issues.
ARC’s submission added that Russian Nazi propaganda continued in Crimea in 2023, with a “book presentation” from Sergei Shuvainikov, dedicated to Putin, Sergei Aksyonov and Vladimir Konstantinov, and named “My Struggle”, apparently borrowed by the author from the manifesto of the same name by his spiritual parents, the German Nazis and personally from Hitler.
Also Association stressed on example of 2023, when Russian invaders’ punishers detained a sixty-year-old Crimean Tatar, a resident of Yevpatoria Ibraim Shabdinov for “discrediting the Russian army and the current government”, and the Nazi propagandists of the aggressor, emphasizing the ethnic origin of Shabdinov, criminally called the victim as “animal”.
Also ARC informed UN OHCHR on Ukraine’s executing ICERD in its procedural limb, regarding Article 14 of this Convention and described the ICERD realisation issues in Ukrainian courts in cases 420/6255/20, 991/6913/21 and 420/2297/22, initiated by Professor Borys Babin regarding racial discrimination and anti-Semitism.
