WWW.CCL.ORG.UA by the head of state. Shortly to bring together many human rights organizations. been awaiting the President’s 28, on the eve of the meeting One of the demands was signature for six months now. of the Presidents of Ukraine the immediate signing of The Center for Civil Lib - and the United States, we erties continues to push organized another perfor - Under the Constitution of for the signing of this doc - ument and will continue to Kremlin Hostages Are Not either signed or returned to work actively to promote Toys, which saw the Center the Verkhovna Rada for recon - for Civil Liberties managing the law on war criminals. CAMPAIGN IN SUPPORT OF THE RATIFICATION OF THE ROME STATUTE The three-year suspension of the new constitutional provisions which pave the Rome Statute expired back in June 2019. However, neither the President nor the Parlia - ment proved able to initiate Statute in 2020. During 2021, the HRA kept reminding the public and the government of the need to ratify the Rome create an expert team which worked on the development of explanatory materials to debunk the myths surround - the event were the Represen - the provisions of the Rome ing the Rome Statute, and Statute which debunked the this campaign got supported of Ukraine in the Autono - myths surrounding this topic. by our new partners; we also mous Republic of Crimea, The Center for Civil Lib - established cooperation with the Ukrainian International veterans and opinion leaders Law Association, the Depart - meetings with representa - ment of Criminal Law Policy tives of veterans’ organiza - project in support of the rat - and Criminal Law of the tions, such as the Union of Shevchenko National Univer - Veterans of Ukraine, the Legal A three-day event dedicat - sity of Kyiv, and the Verkhov - Hundred, the Geneva Ap - ed to the Day of International na Rada Committee on Law peal, Sich-Dnipro, the Space Criminal Justice, which in - of Opportunities, and the engaged domestic and inter - Veteran Hub, to clarify the and applied research online national experts and scholars, Rome Statute provisions and activities entitled the Week legislators, law enforcement of International Criminal an information campaign to 1,785 persons watched the

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