In the framework of permanent cooperation with United Nations agencies, our Association communicated with the Human Rights Council’s Advisory Committee for its next report on the impact of disinformation on the enjoyment and realization of human rights, preparing with demands of Council’s resolution 55/10.
ARC’s submission, published on the UN official website now, stressed that Russia-generated war propaganda now has the totalitarian dimension and is not a tool of war only, but a form of mass human rights ’violation and of rehabilitation of Russia-committed war crimes, aggression, and genocide in Ukraine.
Russian propaganda has the goal of dehumanizing Ukrainians, making it simpler for Russian troops and mercenaries to commit war crimes, submission added, stressing that the level of negative impact of Russia’s war propaganda on the civil population’s human rights in Ukraine makes the Russian state’s informational sources, mechanisms, and policies similar to the informational agenda of a terroristic organization.
Submission added that such war propaganda has the genocidal features and direct goal to eliminate all fundamental rights of Ukrainians, including their right to life, but also Russia’s war propaganda is connected with crimes against collective rights and sustainable development.
It was proved in ARC’s submission by the examples of Russia-generated fake systems regarding events of destruction at the dam of Kakhovka HPP and the catastrophe with Russian tankers “Volgoneft-212” and “Volgoneft-239”.
Forms of countering dissemination of Russian war propaganda were described in ARC’s submission, including the case 521/11949/24, refuting Crimean collaborators’ fakes in water supply by North Crimean Channel to Russia-occupied peninsula, also as the case of 758/978/20 with relevant counteraction against the Russia-controlled “media” and “legal enforcement” activities.
ARC’s submission also reminded about the norms of article 4 of UN General Assembly’s resolutions 77/204, 78/190, and 79/160, added due to our active collaboration with UN officials, that Russia “has sought to justify its territorial aggression against Ukraine on the purported basis of eliminating neo-Nazism”, and “the pretextual use of neo-Nazism to justify territorial aggression seriously undermines genuine attempts to combat neo-Nazism”.
Our next international activities countering Russian war propaganda, disinformation, hate speech, and genocidal calls will be continued.
