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Ukrainian authorities managed to bring home 12 more children and their families from the occupied territories

2024-07-19T16:17:43+02:0020. July 2024|

12 more children returned to Ukraine from occupied territories   This was announced by the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for human rights Dmytro Lubinets. "It was possible to return 12 Ukrainian children to their homeland! Children together with their relatives lived - in Donetsk, Zaporizhzhya and Kherson regions. Fortunately, now they are already in Ukrainian-controlled territory. Each family experienced in its own way the mess created by the occupation 'authorities'," Lubinets

Help for children’s hospital in Odessa

2024-07-05T16:58:02+02:005. July 2024|

A contribution to the special campaign at the Children's Hospital in Odessa, June 3, 2024 Since an IGFM Christmas campaign in 2022 for sick and war-disabled children, the IGFM has repeatedly received calls for help from the central children's hospital in Odessa/Ukraine. In April 2024, an IGFM member, at high personal risk, delivered 10,000 venous catheters financed by donations to the hospital in a small truck and in May the

OHCHR: Report on the Human Rights Situation in Ukraine (1 March – 31 May 2024)

2024-07-05T10:39:46+02:005. July 2024|

OHCHR: Report on the Human Rights Situation in Ukraine (1 March – 31 May 2024) The full-scale invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation and subsequent hostilities continued to have a devastating impact on the civilian population in the period between 1 March and 31 May 2024. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) documented that the cross-border offensive by Russian armed forces in Kharkiv region alone

German government rejects idea of deporting unemployed Ukrainians

2024-06-24T17:03:51+02:0024. June 2024|

The German government opposes the deportation of Ukrainians who do not want to work, according to a representative of the German Federal Foreign Office. Photo: Ukrainians in Germany (gettyimages.com) He reminded that Russia attacks targets across Ukraine daily and also tries to destroy infrastructure in the western part of the country. "Therefore, I don't know where there can be a safe place in Ukraine," emphasized the representative of

Russian military captures civilians in Kharkiv region

2024-05-17T12:34:28+02:0017. May 2024|

Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine: Russian military captures civilians in the northern part of the city of Vovchansk Until 16 May, the Ukrainian police helped residents evacuate the affected part of the city, but now the Russian military is not allowing people to evacuate or leave the city. "According to the latest information, the Russian military did not allow the residents to leave: People were abducted and herded into

Liusiena Zinovkina on war and civilian captivity

2024-05-07T09:12:31+02:0029. April 2024|

"They subject our people to terrible torture and force them to confess to fictitious crimes. Crimes they did not commit" Transcript from the 20.04.2024 Hello and thank you for your invitation. My name is Liusiena Zinovkina. I came to Germany two years ago when my home town of Melitopol was occupied by Russian soldiers. My husband's name is Kostiantyn Zinovkin, he is 34 years old and has been in Russian

Cafe Kyiv 2024. The Future of Ukraine in Europe

2024-02-07T08:39:23+01:007. February 2024|

The Ukrainian freedom movements have emphatically declared that Ukraine's future lies in Europe. In line with this vision, the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung is set to host another edition of "Cafe Kyiv" on 19 February 2024, themed "The Future of Ukraine in Europe". Building on the success of last year's event, this edition will blend art, history, film screenings, along with culinary and creative elements. Our commitment remains unchanged: We continue to stand

Stanislav Asseyev lived through the hell of a Russian torture prison in Donetsk

2024-02-02T11:37:45+01:002. February 2024|

Stanislav Asseyev was able to report from the areas occupied by separatists and Russian secret service forces in eastern Ukraine for two years. Ein erschütterndes Protokoll des Ausgeliefertseins und der Demütigung: Stanislaw Assejew. In 2017, he was abducted, imprisoned and tortured. He wrote a harrowing report about this time. His articles from the Donbass were cult. Stanislav Asseyev's writing was concise and clear, his tone young and fresh,

OHCHR: Report on the Human Rights Situation in Ukraine (1 August – 30 November 2023)

2023-12-19T11:21:58+01:0019. December 2023|

OHCHR: Report on the Human Rights Situation in Ukraine (1 August – 30 November 2023) This thirty-seventh report by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on the human rights situation in Ukraine covers the period from 1 August to 30 November 2023. From 1 August to 30 November, OHCHR documented 2440 civilian casualties (576 killed and 1864 injured), with the majority (86 per cent) occurring in

MEMORIAL and „Voices of War“ at the Frankfurt Book Fair

2023-10-19T15:50:00+02:0019. October 2023|

Ukraine: making the „unimaginable tangible“ through „Voices of War“ - in the spirit of IGFM The project of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group „Voices of War“ has been close to IGFM's heart from the very beginning. IGFM has always been an organisation that gives a voice to victims and witnesses of human rights violations. This has been the "spirit" of IGFM for more than half a century. That is

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