ANNUAL REPORT 2023 3.  WORK WITHIN STRATEGIC AREAS AND  HUMAN RIGHTS INITIATIVES Accountability — New Ways caused by Russia‘s armed of Thinking’ was held in aggression against Ukraine. Kyiv in cooperation with The CCL uses all tools the network. They discussed provided by international issues of importance to institutions to address spe- Syria and Ukraine, including cific issues that we have the consequences of war been working on throughout crimes and crimes against the past year, namely: humanity, politicisation of • documenting war the humanitarian sector, geopolitical insecurity, lack of crimes and facilitating an adequate response from the international system the international community, of criminal justice; combating disinformation, • promoting legislative threats to regional and global security and international changes according to law and order, and more. the principles, best prac- On 24 April in Warsaw, tices, and standards of hu- during the OSCE Supple- man rights protection and mentary Human Dimen- aligning Ukrainian legis- sion Meeting, the CCL lation with EU standards; held an event dedicated to • monitoring the detention the forced displacement and deportation of Ukrainian conditions of political civilians, including children, prisoners and civilian by the Russian Federation. hostages to subsequently During the OSCE Warsaw release them from the ter- Human Dimension Con- ritory of Crimea and Rus- ference (WHDC), which took sia, as well as from places place from 2 to 13 October, of unlawful detention in the CCL representatives held the territory of Ukraine 2 events on ‘Filtration and which is temporarily not forced relocation: examining controlled by Ukraine. Russia‘s violations of interna- tional law’ and ‘Torture of ci- vilian hostages and prisoners of war after Russia‘s invasion of Ukraine’, as well as 12 advo- cacy meetings on countering Russian aggression, releasing Ukrainian hostages in Rus- sia, the ICC‘s cooperation with Ukraine, and more. At these and other events, the CCL organised separate events to inform diplomats from various OSCE member states about the problems 41