In the framework of permanent cooperation with international bodies, expert of our Association, Professor Borys Babin took an active participation in OSCE Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting, which started on June, 2 in Vienna.
During this event, named as “Inclusion as a way to promote tolerance and non-discrimination” expert Babin exchanged opinions about racial discrimination against ethnic Ukranians and Crimean Tatars at Russia-occupied territories of Ukraine with OSCE participating states’ officials, human defenders and international bodies’ officers, such as Professor Wolfgang Palaver, Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on Combating Racism, Xenophobia and Discrimination.
Also Professor Babin reported on Session II of that OSCE Meeting about relevant events in the Crimea, and stressed that level of racial and other discrimination, committed by Russian occupiers, grows in the peninsula.
He reminded on the 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 absence of education on Ukrainian language.
Also ARC’s expert stressed on activities of our Association and Crimean Tatar Resource Center in UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, reflected in its Concluding observations CERD/C/UKR/CO/24-26, devoted to issues of execution the ICERD by Ukraine, also describing the issues of Russian aggression, including violation of ICERD in Russia-occupied Ukrainian territories, such as the Crimea.
Also Professor Babin reminded to OSCE participating states about the UN General Assembly’s Resolutions 77/204, 78/190 and 79/160, amended by article 4 in result of our Association’s activities, where Assembly “notes with alarm that the Russian Federation has sought to justify its territorial aggression against Ukraine on the purported basis of eliminating neo-Nazism, and underlines that the pretextual use of neo-Nazism to justify territorial aggression seriously undermines genuine attempts to combat neo-Nazism.”
