On May 5 ARC`s expert, professor Borys Babin participated online in World Law Congress, held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 2025.
That biennial Congress is the main event of the World Jurist Association and it united for three days, global leaders, including heads of State, justices from supranational and national courts, government officials, policy makers, academics, lawyers, activists, and students.
On the occasion of this Congress, the World Peace & Liberty Award was granted to U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor by King of Spain, Felipe VI, and the President of the German Federal Constitutional Court Stephan Harbarth.
During the Congress Dr. Borys Babin, with support of PhD. Anna Prikhodko, moderated its Panel 20 “Indigenous Rights, Cultural Practices, International Migrations & Universal Human Rights”.
That Panel’s key speakers, Javier El-Hage from International Legal International Human Rights Foundation and Peter Umeadi, judge and former Presidential Candidate in Nigeria presented its visions on challenges for ethnic groups and migrants during conflicts, crisys and attacks agains democracy.
Professor Babin reminded in his speech to Congress participants the key international sources and principles about indigenous rights and described challenges on that issue on examples of repressions and discrimination against Crimean Tatars in Russia-occupied Crimea.
ARC’s expert paid special attention to aspects of Crimean Tatars’ participation in global peacebuilding initiatives, discussed under UN auspice, to issues of collective damage indigenous claims, and to case of legalisation the Mejlis of Crimean Tatar People, as its representative body regarding to the Ukrainian legislation.
