News from Activists

ISHR helps Ukrainian schools and communities
ISHR team provides humanitarian aid in Poltava and Sumy regions On April 20, 2023, 3 boilers and 3 sanitary kits were donated to the Sahaydatsky school in Shyshaky territorial community, ...

ISHR team continues to help Ukrainian territorial communities
ISHR team provides humanitarian aid in Ukrainian territorial communities ISHR supports medical institutions in different regions of Ukraine, including Zaporizhzhia. During our work in Zaporizhzhia region, ISHR team visited five ...

ISHR team continues to help Ukrainians in need
ISHR team provide humanitarian aid in Sumy, Poltava and Zaporizhzhia regions On March 31, 2023, the ISHR team delivered Javel-Clade water disinfectant to Putivl water utility (Sumy region), that is ...

Vladimir Kara-Murza: Russian opposition figure jailed for 25 years
Opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza has been sentenced to 25 years in jail in Russia for charges linked to his criticism of the war in Ukraine. He was found guilty of ...

OHCHR: Treatment of prisoners of war (24 February 2022 – 23 February 2023)
OHCHR: Treatment of Prisoners of War and Persons Hors de Combat in the Context of the Armed Attack by the Russian Federation against Ukraine (24 February 2022 - 23 February ...

OHCHR: Report on the Human Rights Situation in Ukraine (1 August 2022 – 31 January 2023)
OHCHR: Report on the Human Rights Situation in Ukraine (1 August 2022 - 31 January 2023) The thirty-fifth report by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) ...

ISHR team distributes hygiene kits and medicines to people in need
March 12 - 18, 2023. ISHR team provides humanitarian aid in Sumy, Poltava and Kyiv regions The ISHR team continues to support the people of Putivl community (Sumy region). On ...

ISHR team distributes warming and hygiene kits
February 26 - March 6, 2023. ISHR team provides humanitarian aid in Sumy and Poltava regions Help from the ISHR team is very welcomed in the border regions! On February ...

US State Department points out human rights problems in Moldova in its 2022 annual report
US State Department criticises Moldova for human rights abuses The document identifies problems such as: "reports of torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment by the authorities", "unsuitable and life-threatening ...

Humanity is losing its rights. Civil liberties have become a luxury for 96.8% of the world’s population
CIVICUS has presented its annual ranking of civil liberties around the world, which it has published since 2017. Only 3.2% of the world's people can fully and safely express their ...

Meeting with Ukrainian refugees in Ignalina
Meeting with Ukrainian refugees in Ignalina The Lithuanian section of the International Society for Human Rights has been supporting Ukrainian refugees on an ongoing basis since the beginning of the ...

Beds for the Kherson Military Hospital
Beds for the Kherson Military Hospital IGFM-Wittlich and the International Society for Human Rights handed over another batch of humanitarian aid to the Belarusian organisation "Nash Dom" in Lithuania. This ...

Belarus: The outcry must not remain unheard
Belarus. 10 years imprisonment for the 60-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Dr. phil. Ales Bialiatski. His last words in court:“This civil war must end! I hope you will hear me" ...

ISHR team helps IDPs, children and hospitals
February 17 - 20, 2023. ISHR team provides humanitarian aid in Poltava and Kharkiv regions On February 17, 2023, ISHR team brought food to Mirgorod Specialised School (Poltava region). This ...

ISHR team continues to bring light and warmth to Ukrainians
February 14 - 15, 2023. ISHR team provides humanitarian aid in Sumy and Poltava regions Light to schools from ISHR team! On February 14, 2023, in Putivl (Sumy region), our ...

1 year of aggressive war in Ukraine
1 year of aggressive war in Ukraine "Without coming to terms with the past there is no future" Ivan Agrusov, Russian exile in Stalin times, founder of the International Society ...