ANNUAL REPORT 2022 3. WORK WITHIN STRATEGIC AREAS AND HUMAN RIGHTS INITIATIVES the process as volunteers are also given instructions. CCL documenters found facts of crimes in 126 settle- ments of Kyiv Oblast and the city of Kyiv. Mobile groups had over 30 field visits to the crime scenes. Each of them was participated by journal- ists from major foreign media. Thanks to numerous meetings, the organisation is developing cooperation with international insti- tutions: the UN, Council of Europe, OSCE, and the To consolidate efforts EU. We dedicate particular in registering and gath- attention to cooperation with ering evidence, initiative the International Criminal participants hold monthly Court and the European information sessions for Court of Human Rights. Our journalists on the correct goal is to prosecute perpe- documenting of war crimes. trators and set up a special During 2022, 5 such events tribunal considering war were held on the basis of the crimes, crimes against CCL. All those willing to join humanity, and genocide. PRISONERS VOICE CAMPAIGN Launched in 2014, the #Let- violations include enforced from families whose rela- MyPeopleGo campaign fo- abduction, imprisonment, tives had been abducted and cused on international and na- torture, illegal captivity, forcibly taken to the territory tional advocacy for the release failure to provide medical of Russia or so-called L/DPR of political prisoners is now aid, and inhumane deten- prisons. The Center provided known as #PrisonersVoice. tion conditions. With these these families with legal and Since the onset of the methods, the aggressor human rights assistance. In full-scale invasion of Ukraine wants to break the resist- addition, the CCL released by the RF, the focus of ance of the Ukrainian people. instructions for those Prisoners Voice’s attention In February 2022, the whose civilian or military shifted to the protection winter letter marathon for relatives were missing. of the rights of people who Ukrainian political prisoners Together with its partners, were captured as a result of of the Kremlin took place. the CCL created working Russian aggression: these Over 200 letters have been groups for effective legal are imprisoned civilians and written to political prisoners. aid to victims, as well as war prisoners whose rights During 2022, the CCL ensuring that their appeals are grossly violated. These received about 800 requests are represented in the ECHR 15
