In framework of permanent cooperation with United Nations’ bodies and structures, this January our Association sent submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Professor Michael Fakhri, for his upcoming thematic report to the UN Human Rights Council, devoted to the right to food in times of protracted crisis, including conflicts’ challenges.
Our submission, prepared by Professor Borys Babin and other experts, and published at UN official web-sources now, reminded the organisation of challenges for the issue of sustainable development, including agriculture and fishery in Ukraine and all Black Sea region, caused by the destruction of the dam of Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant on Dnipro River by Russian military units, that happened on 6 June, 2023.
ARC’s submission also described same broad challenges, appeared after the catastrophe that occurred on December 15, 2024 in the waters south of the Kerch Strait with the Russian tankers “Volgoneft-212”, and “Volgoneft-239”, which were transporting a total of more than 8 thousand tons of fuel oil.
Submission added that ongoing Black Sea ecological disaster caused already broadscale destruction of maritime ecosystems, crucial for regional fishery and aquaculture, and stressed that Russian central authorities, military structures, illegal “governments” in occupied Crimea disseminate system of fakes regarding events with destruction the Kakhovka HPP and catastrophe with Russian tankers “Volgoneft-212” and “Volgoneft-239”, all their reaction on those events was definitely not effective.
Moreover, ARC’s submission added that the occupiers’ system of agrarian sector in modern Crimea is totally non-effective and caused broadscale growth of prices on basic food products.
Such Russia’s illegal activities made strong challenges for right to food in conditions of food systems transformation, for the cultivation and preparation of local food by indigenous Crimean Tatar People, and Russia bans any civil society activities for advancing an equitable and sustainable food system at Russia-occupied territories of Ukraine, ARC’s submission summarised.
