WWW.CCL.ORG.UA Developing the human rights movement and supporting reforms Last year, the informal coali - Ukraine on War Criminals tion of human rights organi - to public authorities. (Law No. 2689), protection zations known as the Human During 2021, the coalition of Belarusian human rights Rights Agenda (HRA) platform, of human rights organiza - activists and media, release continued to work on moni - tions focused on the reform of political prisoners held of the Security Service of legislation in accordance with Ukraine and the prospect Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts the basic principles of human of introducing jury trial, and the Russian Federation, rights and fundamental improvement of legal aware - the Istanbul Convention and ness and ensuring respect partners, it signed more than the Rome Statute, adoption for human rights principles and signing of the Law of (“THE WAR CRIMINAL LAW“) In 2021, we kept up an active campaign to push for the adoption of the draft every eort to that end, resulting in the Verkhov - na Rada adopting in the second reading the Law Legislative Acts of Ukraine on the Implementation of International Criminal and Humanitarian Law” the nal reading, and it was submitted for the presi - dential approval on June 7.