Continuing our cooperation with United Nations’ officials, bodies, and agencies, our Association sent a submission to the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights on its next report on Indigenous Peoples’ free, prior, and informed consent.
ARC submission, published on UN official web-sources now, reminded of Russian permanent repressions against the collective rights of indigenous Crimean Tatar people.
ARC submission pointed out that Crimean Tatars, their Mejlis and local self-governing institutions, got strong negative economic, ecologic, and development consequences as a result of the undermining of the Kakhovka HPP, “Volgoneft” fuel oil catastrophe in the waters of the Black Sea, so from the climate change and desertification of Crimea, where Russian illegal “governments” and “media” disseminate fakes and hide the real situation.
The Russian occupation created strong challenges for Crimean Tatars’ culture, sustainable development, and traditional economies in the Crimea, adjacent maritime waters, and mainland territories, the ARC submission reminded.
Also, ARC submission stressed to UN that since 2018, Ukrainian authorities adopted some strategic and program documents regarding processes of reintegration in Crimea after its de-occupation that included some issues of indigenous rights’ realization, including the aspects of free, prior, and informed consent.
