Earlier, in the framework of permanent cooperation with United Nations’ bodies, our Association sent a submission to the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, Professor Margaret Satterthwaite, for her next thematic report on Indigenous justice that was presented now at the 59th session of the Human Rights Council.
ARC’s submission, published at official UN web-sources now, reminded that Russia illegally banned the Mejlis of Crimean Tatar People as indigenous representative body, and a lot of individual applications of Crimean Tatars were sent to the European Court of Human Rights, on aspects of the repressions, discrimination, and illegal ban of Mejlis.
ARC’s submission stressed that now the sublegal acts have been drafted by the Ukrainian government, developing the Law of Indigenous Peoples of Ukraine, 2021, with participation of the Mejlis of Crimean Tatar People and our Association’s experts, and that since 2018, Ukrainian authorities adopted some strategic and program documents regarding processes of reintegration of the Crimea after its de-occupation, that included some aspects of indigenous rights’ realization.
Also, ARC’s submission described the results of sessions of Strategic Forum “The Future of Crimea,” including relevant drafts of documents, elaborated with the participation of experts of our Association, that reflected issues of institutionalization of the International Crimea Platform, taking into account aspects of international solidarity with indigenous people of Ukraine and indigenous justice issues also.
