On December 18, an expert of our Association, Professor Borys Babin moderated a workshop for prosecutors, where they discussed ways of cooperation between law enforcement agencies and the non-governmental sector in the field of effective documentation of war crimes and human rights violations in the occupied territories of Ukraine.
The workshop was held on the initiative of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, with the assistance of the Department of International Cooperation of the Ukraine’s Office of the Prosecutor General and the support of the International Renaissance Foundation.
The speakers of the event were Professor Igor Kraynov from the Bokarius Institute of Forensic Expertise, Professor and lawyer Konstantin Zakharenko, Associate Professor Anastasia Antonyuk, Head of the Department of Political and Legal Analysis of the Processes of Deoccupation and Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of the Ukrainian State University named after Dragomanov, expert of the Center Lyudmila Korotkikh, lawyer Alexander Poznyak, as well as an expert of our Association, Associate Professor Eduard Pleshko.
In his speech, Professor Babin touched upon the role of coordination of various bodies in preparing a position in interstate processes related to Russian aggression and occupation, recalling the positive experience, as well as the challenges associated with these processes in the International Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights.
The expert also paid special attention to the correlation of the categories of victim and injured party in crimes, committed by the occupiers, as well as the specifics of collecting damages in national jurisdiction, including processes on moral damage, using the example of case 521/11949/24.
